Stories from Friday, September 8, 2006

BRONSON -- A Uniontown woman died on Thursday after she lost control of her sport utility vehicle on U.S. Highway 54 near Bronson. Emergency medical workers pronounced Mary R. Pritchett, 64, dead at the scene after trying to revive her for short time after the incident. She had no pulse and was not breathing when first-responders arrived, Bourbon County District No. 3 Coordinator Delwin Mumbower said...

UNIONTOWN -- USD 235 is expected to receive more than $19,000 this year from a federal grant program that helps smaller rural school districts across the state with funding for operations. During their regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Uniontown Junior Senior High School commons area, 601 Fifth St., the USD 235 Board of Education is scheduled to vote on accepting a $19,397 Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP) grant, a federal grant designed to help rural schools across the country overcome additional costs incurred due to their geographic isolation, smaller number of students and lower income levels.. ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- It wasn't anything close to perfect. It was just a win. Fort Scott High took a 34-12 win over Kansas City-Wyandotte at the Maurice Green Track Complex at Washington High School here Thursday night. But although Dakotah Gettler had the best passing night by a Tiger quarterback in 10 years, it was not a great game by any means...

Mary Roberta Pritchett, age 64, a resident of Uniontown, Kansas, died Thursday, September 7, 2006, as the result of an automobile accident east of Bronson. Pastor Joel Dunn conducted funeral services at the Uniontown United Methodist Church. Memorials are suggested to the American Diabetes Association or the Uniontown Park Project and may be left in care of the Cheney Witt Memorial Chapel, 201 S. ...

Robert Noel Warford, age 83, of Fort Scott, died Thursday, September 7, 2006, at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott. He was born on August 10, 1923, in Fort Scott, the son of Will Alfred and Luttie Mae Allen Warford. He married Beth Robinson in 1946 in Springfield, Colorado, they later divorced...