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05/26/2026

🚨🔥 HOT JOBS ALERT! 🔥🚨

Ready to find your next opportunity? Our latest Hot Jobs are waiting for YOU! 💼

📌 All available positions are listed on:
👉 jobs.mo.gov

Whether you're starting fresh, changing careers, or looking for something new, the Nevada Job Center is here to help every step of the way! 🙌

📞 Call us today at 417-448-1177
🏢 Or stop by and see us in person—we’re here to assist with anything you need!

👉 Don’t wait—take the next step toward your future today! Apply now and let us help you land that job! 💪💙

05/26/2026

🎹 Please join us in welcoming a new business to our Main Street District — 88 Keys Studio!

Owned and operated by Heather Walker, 88 Keys Studio is bringing private piano instruction and a love for music to downtown Nevada. We’re excited to see another business investing in our district and creating new opportunities for creativity, learning, and community connection. 🎶

Be sure to stop by their Grand Opening on Friday, May 29 at 215 W. Walnut- from 1:00–5:00 p.m. to tour the studio, ask questions, enjoy free popsicles, participate in a scavenger hunt, and enter for a chance to win a free month of lessons!

Welcome to downtown, 88 Keys Studio — we’re glad you’re here!

05/26/2026

Food Truck Vendors, we know licensing can be frustrating. Help is on the way to make this easier.

05/21/2026

Entrepreneurship and Small LOCAL business support is a key priority for our economic development program. If you dream of owning your own business we want to help!

05/21/2026

We are proud to be the home of this incredible company

Jason Fleener and his wife have taken over the W.F. Norman Sheet Manufacturing Corporation, a Nevada-based company founded in 1889, and are continuing its legacy of providing unique, one-of-a-kind …

05/20/2026

I spent a decade giving towns technical advice they weren’t ready to use.

Update your zoning code. Apply for this grant. Create a TIF district. Fix your economic development strategy.

Then I’d come back a year later and nothing had changed.

I thought they weren’t listening. Turns out they were dealing with something more fundamental.

Low civic self-esteem. Community apathy. A complete lack of care or concern.

You can’t fix that with a grant application.

Most towns I work with are struggling with these issues. And it’s not their fault. Residents are simply responding to decades of choices that left them with very little to care about and very little to be proud of.

A community full of apathetic residents is going to be an apathetic community. A town with low self-esteem is going to struggle with confidence.

This is why every big new investment fails to make a difference. Why tourism numbers don’t matter. Why economic development wins don’t move the needle.

Because residents don’t give a damn about those things. And why should they?

Those numbers make officials excited. They make the CVB happy. But they don’t affect the vast majority of residents.

Here’s what I realized: Cities and towns behave just like the people who inhabit them.

And sometimes what a community needs isn’t a consultant. It’s a therapist.

Someone who understands that you can’t cure apathy with technical solutions. You have to address the emotional stuff first.

If people don’t care about their community, ask yourself: what would make YOU care?

If people aren’t proud of their town, ask: what would make YOU proud?

The answers to those questions are the actual answers.

You already understand human nature. You have all the insights you need.

05/20/2026

Vernon County is proud to be working with the Center on Rural Innovation to maximize this important moment in economic development through the Heartland Rural Innovators Initiative https://ruralinnovation.us/heartland-rural-innovators-initiative/.

05/19/2026

Hey Vernon County food businesses.. check this out!
Harvest to Market Grant
Expected to open in June 2026 and close in August 2026
Grants up to $25,000
Estimated 6-month project timeline
For investments focused on serving local and regional food markets
For select rural counties in Kansas and Missouri (see map)

The Harvest to Market Grant for food and farm enterprises in rural Kansas and western Missouri will be announced soon. In the meantime, free coaching is available from Heartland Food Business Coalition partners to help prepare strong project proposals.

05/18/2026

Updated hours.
Saturday is not changing right now, we will keep 8-2. This is temporary assignment to see how it goes. If it does now flow well, we will adjust again.
The new hours will start Monday 05/18/26.
We are super excited to see what good this change will bring ❤️❤️
Thank you for all of your support.

05/18/2026

It is a super limited menu at the moment, but it’s here!
Gluten Free Muffins $3.00