Stories from Friday, July 7, 2023

On June 28, the Nevada Regional Technical Center's Educators Rising group left for the Educators Rising National Conference and Competition in Orlando, Fla. The conference lasted five days with several different competitions, networking events, and keynote speakers. Seven NRTC students attended and nationally qualified at the state level, to compete among the best of the best...

Small nonfarm businesses in 46 counties across Missouri, as well as neighboring counties in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas, have been declared eligible to apply for low-interest federal disaster loans. This announcement was made by Tanya N. Garfield, Director of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Disaster Field Operations Center-West. The loans are aimed at mitigating economic losses resulting from reduced revenues caused by an ongoing drought in these areas, which began on May 2...

Joe Edward Winter, 84, Richards, Mo., passed away with his family by his side on Tuesday, July 4, 2023, at Medicalodges in Fort Scott following a brief illness. Joe was born Octo. 2, 1938 in Deerfield, Mo., to Earl P. and Dana M. (Clark) Winter. He fell in love in the seventh grade with Shirley I. Goddard and married his childhood sweetheart on April 23, 1960, in Nevada, Mo., and she survives of the home...

Dawna Sue (Tabor) Selsor passed away Monday, July 3, 2023, at her home in Nevada, Mo. She was born to Hurshel "Bud" and Marjorie Tabor in Webb City, Mo., on Dec. 7, 1942. She married David Selsor on May 28, 1961, and they recently celebrated their 62nd anniversary...

Editor’s note: Locker Room Talk: Coaches Edition, is a piece where every week the Nevada Daily Mail will interview a high school coach and ask them a series of questions. This week's guest is Nevada Volleyball Head Coach Kori Dodson.