Stories from Monday, September 10, 2007

GARLAND -- Residents of the small southeastern Bourbon County town have shown they are in favor of the construction of a new community center and storm shelter. "If it's here, people we'll use it," Garland resident Neil Underwood said during a public meeting Thursday in the Garland Park. "We haven't had a new building in years."...

At Fort Scott Christian Heights, a local private school located at 1101 S. Barbee, students are learning the value of reading. On Friday, FSCH first and second grade teacher Sarah Pridey said she took her first and second grade classes to the Fort Scott Public Library, 201 S. ...

Robert L. Crozier, 74, a resident of Mapleton, Kan., and formerly of Kansas City, died Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007, at the Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. He was born Dec. 14, 1932, in Garnett, Kan., the son of Lester R. Crozier and Inez Gray Crozier. ...

June Edna Tice, 88, of Fort Scott, died Friday evening, Sept. 7, 2007 at the Medicalodge Nursing Home. She was born on June 10, 1919, in Reedsburg, Wis., the daughter of Henry Ferdinand and Isabelle Myrtle Yorton Clark. She married William Fleet Tice, Sr. on June 21, 1941 in Eau Claire, Wis. He preceded her in death on June 30, 2003...

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DALY -- Alexis Rene'e Daly, a girl, was born at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott at 5:56 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007. She weighed 7 pounds and 16.6 ounces at birth. Maternal grandparents are Susan Sander, Garnett and Melvin Sander, Olathe. Paternal grandparents are Steve and Lisa Goddard, Fort Scott and Jeff and Sharon Daly, Fort Scott...

OSWEGO, Kan. -- Will Sisson scored both of Jayhawk-Linn's touchdowns as the Jayhawks burst into the win column this season with a 12-0 shutout over Oswego in Three Rivers League action here Friday night. Sisson scored on a five-yard run in the second quarter and a 44-yard punt return in the third. The Jayhawks, 1-0 in the TRL and 1-1 overall, rushed for 195 yards as a team...

UNIONTOWN, Kan. -- Riverton scored on the game's first possession and held on for a 7-0 victory over host Uniontown in a non-league football game here Friday night. Brent Cates' one-yard TD plunge early in the first period proved to be the only score in this game, one which settled into become a defensive battle on a rain-soaked field...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- Fort Scott High School had a 21-0 lead on Kansas City-Wyandotte at Frary Field here Friday night and hadn't even run three offensive plays yet. The Tigers improved to 2-0 on the young season with a 63-8 whitewashing of the Bulldogs after going up handily in the game's first six minutes. ...

GIRARD -- Neither Fort Scott High nor Uniontown were able to field full teams at the Girard Invitational here Thursday. This was the first official action for the FSHS golf team and just the second for Uniontown after the Fort Scott Invitational was rained out Tuesday...

PLEASANTON -- Baxter Springs' successful two-point conversion in overtime gave the Lions a 22-21 win over host Pleasanton in a non-league high school football game here Friday night. T.J. Davis' 10-yard touchdown run gave the Blu-Jays the lead in overtime and Pleasanton's PAT kick made it 21-14...

COFFEYVILLE -- Which is the real Fort Scott Community College football team? Is it the one that lost to Independence a week ago or is it the one that has beaten two nationally-ranked teams this season after defeating No. 12 Coffeyville 10-3 in Jayhawk Conference play at Veterans Memorial Stadium here Saturday night?...