Stories from Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Fort Scott Mayor Dick Hedges appointed three people, Tuesday, to an authority that will oversee implementation of a plan to create a riverfront project on the Marmaton River. Hedges approved Jeff Sweetser, Arnold Schofield, and Jerry Witt to the Fort Scott/Bourbon County Riverwalk Authority. The Fort Scott city commission then ratified the appointments...

A big question surrounding Fort Scott's proposed $6.5 million aquatic center has been the admission fees and the future maintenance and operating costs of the indoor/outdoor facility. On Tuesday, Darren Bevard of Larkin Aquatics, the firm handling the planning and designing of the facility, sat down with The Fort Scott Tribune to discuss those cost issues...

While more than 500 area graduates are preparing for the next challenge in their lives, school officials are preparing for a number of graduation ceremonies and other events later this month. About 146 Fort Scott High School seniors -- the same number of graduates as last year -- will don caps and gowns for ceremonies scheduled for 8 p.m. ...

Doris Walker, age 88, of Fort Scott, formerly of Arma and Franklin, died at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at Carrington Place at Pittsburg. Mrs. Walker was born July 30, 1918 at Granby, Missouri the daughter of George and Ira Sturgeon Capps. Mrs. Walker was a homemaker. ...

Charles Leroy Murray, age 80, Richards, Missouri, died Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada, Missouri following an illness of several months. He was born October 19, 1926 in Schell City, Missouri to Charles Albert Murray and Beulah Isabel Barbour Murray. He married Shirley Gene Barber on January 21, 1951 in Rich Hill, Missouri, and she survives of the home...

CHANUTE -- Fort Scott High's golf team successfully defended its Southeast Kansas League crown as the Tigers won the final SEK designated tournament here Monday by 17 strokes over host Chanute. Fort Scott shot 321 in the tournament while Chanute scored a 338 and Marmaton Valley, a non-league team invited to the tourney, and Parsons tied for third at 347. Marmaton Valley won the tie-breaker by having the better fifth score...

Uniontown High School senior Kylie Shepard (seated, center) signed a letter of intent recently to play basketball at Hutchinson Community College next season for Nathan Daume, who coached Fort Scott Community College's women from 1998-2002. With Kylie as she signed were (clockwise from upper left) Uniontown head coach Ken Holt, UHS assistant coach Paula Coyan, and her parents, Debbi and Steve Shepard...

MADISON -- Pleasanton's track teams competed at a meet here Monday and saw the girls tie for fifth place and the boys finish sixth. The girls were led by the winning performace of the 4x100-meter relay team of Rachel Landrum, Michelle Mitchell, Rachel Richmond and Megan Allen, which ran a 54.9...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) The first new and up-to-date adding machine, run by electricity, ever received in this city, is now in use at the First National Bank. It is quite an improvement over the old style of machines, in that it is not necessary to pull a crank after every entry is made. ...

Friday, April 20, dinner guests of Dewaine and Beverly Geiger was Donald Janes, Beverly's nephew, of New London, Connecticut. It has been several years since he had visited in this area. He also visited Mr. and Mrs. Harold Minor, Wichita, his half sister Mrs. Wanda Hurt, Pittsburg, and went to Clarksburg to visit the gravesite of his mother Erma Lowe Janes...