The community is embracing this day, April 16, 2011, city wide across Nevada, Missouri, by an un-contested vote of participation and declaring it the “City Wide Shopping Day”. The most exciting part is that the this BIG event “City Wide Shopping Day” will not be the only BIG event in town that day! It is a real chance to experience Nevada to it's full potential and experience SHOPPING, DINING, ART, and ENTERTAINMENT ...

About a week ago a message was sent out on Facebook announcing that a concert called the Lamar RockFest was to be held at the Lamar Memorial Hall, in Lamar Missouri. What? A single word sentence was exactly the first thing that came out of many residents mouths when they read the content of the post. The most alarming part was that the post was true; a RockFest would be coming to the Lamar Memorial Hall.

On the evening of Friday January 15, 2010 the Memorial Hall was transformed into a rock co...