Stories from Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Local schools are getting in the Christmas spirit by reaching out to needy families and children this holiday season. St. Mary's Catholic School and Eugene Ware Elementary are both involved in projects that will help make Christmas a little brighter for local families...

100 YEARS AGO (1906) A man who hasn't lived here for a while took a stroll over to the Plaza this morning and was greatly impressed with the place. He says the old buildings should be photographed and a magazine article written about the historic point. He has a notion to do it himself, believing that an interesting article could be gotten up. Some of the buildings over there are almost 70 years old and were built when the city was known as Camp Scott...

WEBB CITY, Mo. -- Fort Scott High's boys showed that they're never out of a game here Tuesday night. But a 25-point fourth-quarter performance was not enough to overcome a three-point second period in a 58-57 loss to Webb City. Tony Karleskint scored stickback hoops to end the first period and start the second to give Fort Scott a 16-12 lead. But the Cardinals, 3-3, scored 12 unanswered points to take an eight-point lead with a minute to go in the half...

WEBB CITY, Mo. -- Despite continuing an amazing defensive stretch into the second quarter of play, Fort Scott High's girls fell to Webb City, 55-47, in overtime here Tuesday night. The Tigers, 1-5, didn't allow a field goal in the first quarter in going out to a 9-2 lead. ...

The Fort Scott City Commission voted 4-1 Tuesday to approve a law prohibiting possession of a firearm on designated city-owned or leased property unless authorized by the city. The ordinance changes one significant fact: that a person can't walk onto city property with a firearm, regardless of whether it's concealed or visible...

Just weeks before the 2007 session of the Kansas Legislature gets under way, one Southeast Kansas-area senator talked about major issues facing Kansas residents in the near future. Sen. Jim Barone, D-Frontenac, spoke with The Fort Scott Tribune this week to comment on pertinent state and local issues that lawmakers will undoubtedly discuss during their upcoming 90-day session, which begins Jan. ...

Beverly Ann Lyons, age 68, of Fulton, died Friday evening, December 15, 2006 at the Mercy Health Center. She was born April 1, 1938 in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, the daughter of Charles A. and Isabelle E. (Jackson) Kluge. She married James H. "Jerry" Lyons, June 27, 1964 in Joplin, Missouri. He survives of the home...

GONSALVES -- Lillyanna Margaret Gonsalves, a girl, was born at 8:48 p.m. on Monday, Dec.18, 2006, at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, to parents Thaddeus and Jaime Gonsalves, Girard. She weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces at birth. Maternal grandparents are Judy Born and Jim and Terry Born, all of Fort Scott. ...

BALSTER -- Zane Allen Leon Balster, a boy, was born at 7:36 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2006, at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, to mother Tedie Balster, El Dorado Springs, Mo. He weighed 6 pounds, 2 ounces at birth. Maternal grandparents are Sarah Lovewell, Nevada, Mo. ...

A 19-year-old Bronson woman was injured Tuesday after her vehicle rolled over when she swerved to miss an animal on U.S. Highway 69, according to Kansas Highway Patrol. Danielle R. Myers was taken to Mercy Health Center and treated for undisclosed injuries, according to KHP. A passenger, Quintin D. Grant,23, of Fort Scott, was not injured...

Some churches didn't have services on Dec. 3, but Hiattville United Methodist Church had services. David Bruner of Topeka and Jamie Collins' friend were welcome visitors. This was the first Sunday of Advent with the David Schwalm family lighting the first Advent candle and relating what is stands for...