Stories from Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Bourbon County Attorney Terri Johnson found that Fort Scott city commissioners did not violate the Kansas Open Meetings Act following a commission meeting in February. Johnson released findings on Tuesday of an investigation into allegations that commissioners broke the open meetings act following a regularly scheduled commission meeting Feb. ...

The USD 234 Board of Education will conduct a special meeting Thursday to review the district budget before it is published in August, school officials said. The meeting is scheduled to take place at noon Thursday at the USD 234 Board of Education office, 424 S. Main St...

Though the 2007 Bourbon County Fair has many different events, it has one main theme -- to allow children the opportunity to learn by doing, K-State Family and Consumer Science Research and Extention Agent Ann Ludlum said. Walking through the Bourbon County Fairgrounds, one can easily see this theme in practice. ...

Connie Sue Feagins Flaherty, age 51, a resident of 702 S. Little, died Monday, July 16, 2007, at the Mercy Health Center. She was born August 12, 1955, in Fort Scott, the daughter of Earl Dean Feagins and Edna Irene Craig Feagins. She married Larry Flaherty on Jan. 28, 1989, in Fayetteville, Arkansas...

Jack Dillow, 76, a resident of rural Redfield, Kan., died Monday, July 16, 2007, at the Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott, Kan. He was born May 2, 1931, in Bentonville, Ark., the son of John Dillow and Maude Pruitt Dillow. Jack married Velva Louise Purdy on Sept. 12, 1953, in Chanute, Kansas. She preceded him in death on Sept. 19, 2003...

Ellen Louise Sizemore, of Eureka, 80, died on Wednesday, July 11, 2007, at the Greenwood County Hospital. She was born in Hutchinson, Kan., on April 12, 1927, the daughter of Harry Eugene and Marguerite (Moomian) Peirce. Ellen was raised in Hutchinson and graduated from Hutchinson High School with the class of 1944. She then attended Sterling College and graduated in 1948, with a teaching degree...

HAYNES -- Raya Lashay Haynes, a girl, was born at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott on Monday, July 16, 2007 to parents David and Cassie Haynes of Fort Scott, Kan. She weighed 7 pounds 4 ounces at birth. She joins siblings, Alexis Kendrick and Zaria Haynes-Kendrick. Maternal grandparents are Freda Kendrick, Fort Scott, and Jack Kendrick, Arkansas. Paternal grandparents are Ted and Roxanne Callahan, Pleasanton...