Stories from Tuesday, March 20, 2007

The Office of the Bourbon County Clerk and Election Officer has released a list of polling places for the April 3 general election, in which area candidates will face off for a number of city and school offices. Residents who live in the First, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Wards in Fort Scott, as well as North Scott Township voters, will vote at the National Guard Armory, 2301 S. ...

Note: This is the second of six profiles on candidates in the Fort Scott City Commission election to take place April 3. Being mayor, Gary Billionis said, is about helping people. Being mayor means fielding phone calls from residents who ask what they should do if they have a problem...

Public reaction and feedback from the March Into Spring 2007 Home Farm and Garden Show conducted Saturday and Sunday has been high, the show's coordinators said. Coordinator Tabatha Beerbower said about 1,500 visitors filed into Arnold Arena at Fort Scott Community College over the weekend to check out nearly 50 vendors and attractions set up at the show...

Darrell Guy Clements, age 51, a resident of Fort Scott, died unexpectedly, Sunday, March 18, 2007, at the Mercy Health Center Emergency Room. He was born March 2, 1956, in Fort Scott, the son of Guy Allen Clements and Doris Alene Johnson Clements. He married Cynthia L. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) Hiram Robert Griffith, father of ex-county attorney C.B. Griffith, died Sunday evening at his home, 115 North Judson St. The funeral will be held at the Methodist Church at Uniontown, with burial in Uniontown Cemetery. The body will be taken overland to Uniontown as this was one of the wishes of the deceased. ...