Stories from Friday, June 29, 2007

According to many of those people who know him and have worked with him, Jim Miesner had done his part to ensure that Fort Scott Community College continues to head down the road toward a bright future. About 100 of the retiring FSCC president's colleagues, friends and family members joined city officials and other members of the community to honor Miesner for his eight years of service at the college during a retirement reception Thursday afternoon in the FSCC cafeteria. ...

Local residents are planning to continue the annual tradition of celebrating the Fourth of July holiday in the community with the 26th annual Burke Street parade. The parade is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. July 4 at the corner of 10th and Burke streets near the home of John and Margaret Kerr, 1119 S. Burke St., where the parade originated 26 years ago...

Fort Scott City commissioners in the next few months will have to decide whether to keep the mill levy the same, decrease or increase it as the governing body reviews budgetary numbers before approving the budget in August. Commissioners got their first look at preliminary budget numbers on Wednesday at a work session. Although no decisions were made, commissioners conveyed that the mill should either stay the same or drop slightly. The mill shouldn't be increased...

John Woodrich has announced the promotion of Eric D. Baldonado to director of Mercy Rehabcentre at Mercy Health Center. As director, he will be responsible for overall day-to-day operations of the 12-bed, CARF certified, acute rehabilitation unit. Baldonado joined Mercy in 2001 as a physical therapist. ...

Kenneth Leon Strother, 71 of Uniontown, Kansas, died Wednesday evening, June 27, 2007, at his home. He was born August 7, 1935, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Clellan Erwin and Edna Elizabeth (Elam) Strother. He married Evelyn M. Stephens December 13, 1973, in Silver Lake, Kansas. She survives of the home...

Rowena Maxine Burt, age 84, resident of 1517 S. Crawford, Fort Scott, Kansas, died Wednesday, June 27, 2007, at Fort Scott Medicalodge. She was born July 19, 1922 in Bronson the daughter of John Ennel and Mary Lawry Ermel. Maxine was a graduate of Bronson High School...

Nevaeh Raye Bolden, a girl, was born at 8:10 p.m. Thursday, June 28, 2007 at Mercy Health Center to parents Jessica Hall and Anthony Bolden, Fort Scott. She weighed 6 pounds, 6 ounces at birth. She joins two brothers, Tyson Bolden and Ryan Breese. Maternal grandparents are Raye and Anthony Hall, Olathe. Paternal grandparents are William and Nancy Bolden, Fort Scott...

Kaylee Ann Sprayberry, a girl, was born at 11:36 a.m. Thursday, June 21, 2007 at Mercy Health Center to parents Diana Harris, Fort Scott and Jeremy Sprayberry, Wichita. She weighed 5 pounds, 1.6 ounces and 18 and 3/4 inches at birth. Maternal grandparents are Sharon Shelton and Orville Harris, Fort Scott and great grandparents Geraldine and John Shelton and Mary Brown of Fort Scott...

The 2007 Four State Farm Show is off and running on a fast track. Set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July 20, 21 and 22, just south of Pittsburg, Kan., the area's premier agricultural event heads into its 33rd year with another huge show in the making...