Stories from Thursday, September 7, 2006

Despite pleas from several area residents and two members of the Kansas Legislature, the Kansas Department of Transportation has decided to completely remove a roadside park about three miles northwest of Fort Scott. The park, picnic area and travel stop, built in 1953, was located near the area where Kansas Highway 7 intersects with U.S. ...

A future project could make the walkway up to the Bourbon County Courthouse safer and more convenient. County commissioners voted to approve a plan last week to remove the three small steps nearest National Avenue on the east or front side of the courthouse. ...

Hattie E. Lyman, age 87, resident of 720 S. Main Street, Fort Scott, Kansas, died Tuesday, September 5, 2006, at Mercy Health Center. She was born January 2, 1919 in Waldenburg, Michigan the daughter of Charles Frederick Jasmund and Meina Kraatz Jasmund. ...

ALLEN -- Spencer Dale Allen, a boy, was born at 5:09 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2006, at Mercy Health Center, to Rickie and Erica Allen, Fort Scott. He weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces at birth. He joins siblings Damon Allen, Jordyn Allen and Austin Collins. Maternal grandparents are Debbie and Jeff McCoy, Fort Scott. Paternal grandparents are Alva and Vicki Thornhill, Butler, Mo...

While visiting in Hayes, South Dakota last week, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced $780 million in assistance to help farmers and ranchers manage drought and weather related production challenges. This funding includes a new $50 million program for livestock producers impacted by drought, focusing nearly $30 million in unused conservation funds on drought, and accelerating the delivery of an estimated $700 million in counter-cyclical payments...

It will soon be time to start thinking about storing bulbs that will not survive our Kansas winters. The bulbs of gladiolus, caladium, dahlia, tuberous begonia, calla lily, and canna lily will need to be dug and stored so they can be planted next year...

100 YEARS AGO (1906) All of the janitors at the various city school buildings will be special policemen during the time that school is in session. At the meeting of the board of education this matter was taken up and it was decided that they should be sworn in as officers and delegated full power to make arrests. This follows out a long established rule...

Pre-1982 schedule format to take effect if vote stands By a 6-3 vote Wednesday, Southeast Kansas League principals voted -- at least for now -- to implement a double-round-robin league basketball schedule beginning in 2007-08. When talk of reviving this format began last season, former Fort Scott High School principal Danny Brown and then-activities director Bob Beckham, both former basketball coaches, lobbied against the idea...

Fort Scott Community College's volleyball team jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the fifth and deciding game of a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Divis-ion match with Allen County at Arnold Arena Wednesday night and held on for a three-games-to-two victory, the Greyhounds' first of the season in seven matches...