Stories from Wednesday, January 17, 2007

A deferred maintenance program for colleges, universities and other higher education institutions across the state -- including Fort Scott Community College -- could come to fruition should the Kansas Legislature approve proposed legislation for it during their 2007 session...

The City of Fort Scott will start tearing down the Miller Block and Nelson Block buildings after it receives permission from the state and the weather improves, City Manager Richard Nienstedt said at the Tuesday city commission meeting. An exact day for commencement of demolition is not known, but hopefully by the end of the month all the preparatory work will be completed and the long-awaited project can begin, he said...

On Dec. 22 Joe and Shirley White was guest of their daughter, John and Susan Whitehead in Garland. They enjoyed an early Christmas with John's boys, and all had a good time opening their Christmas presents. Frank and Gypsy Hereford and their daughter, and grandsons, Becky Canaday, Evan and Cory, traveled to Pittsburg to the home of their niece, Tom and Debbie Laidler and family for their Christmas dinner and gift exchange. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) The announcement that the graduating exercises would be held at the High School chapel is erroneous. The exercises have been announced for the Convention Hall. Of all the freakish things Kansas ever produced, and such celebrities as Kansas Karry and a few others, have won the state more notice than she could well shoulder, surely nothing so freakish as this year has come to note. ...