Stories from Tuesday, December 5, 2006

Of the nine school districts that comprise the Southeast Kansas League, only two districts saw all of their schools meet the adequate yearly progress required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act this year. Fort Scott USD 234 is one of those districts, Superintendent Rick Werling said at Monday's regular Board of Education meeting. ...

Organizers of the 85th annual Fort Scott Kiwanis Pancake Feed said they are ready to feed the masses. The local event, a tradition in Fort Scott for decades, will be conducted this year from 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 14, at the Scottish Rite Temple, 110 S. ...

A structural engineer couldn't fully evaluate the damaged Hawkins Public Safety Facility on Monday to determine whether it is safe for the fire and police departments to move back in. The departments remain without their permanent home after the south roof of the Hawkins Public Safety Facility, 1604 S. National Ave., sustained extensive damage from 13 inches of snow buildup last week. It was the biggest snow storm in decades...

Eunice Mae Stevens, age 102, formerly of Devon, died on Sunday, December 3, 2006 at the Fort Scott Manor Nursing Home. She was born August 13, 1904 in Devon, the daughter of Aurthur and Nellie Augusta (Jones) Fitzgerald. She married Roy Edward Stevens on May 21, 1927 in Kansas City, Missouri. He preceded her in death November 15, 1976...

Betty Lou Russell, age 66, a resident of Fort Scott, died Saturday, December 2, 2006, at Mt. Carmel Medical Center in Pittsburg, Kansas. She was born April 26, 1940, in Harriett, Arkansas, the daughter of James Otto Stephenson and Verbel Viola King Stephenson...

Erica, age 63, isn't worried about contracting AIDS or using protection because "I thought it was dumb." She says her chances of getting the disease are slimmer than being involved in a car accident or eating unhealthy foods. "I figured the men I was sleeping with were, like me, married for the past 20 years and missed out on the AIDS epidemic," Erica wrote in an online blog spot. "So I'll take the risk."...

100 YEARS AGO (1906) The indoor baseball game last evening at Convention Hall between Company G and the high school teams resulted in the overthrow of the students. The score was 4-17 Anyone who has not been on the grounds of the new Frisco roundhouse the past days has any conception of its enormous size. The foundation has been set and brick work is commencing. The grounds covered by the building would take in a city block or more...

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