Stories from Monday, September 17, 2007

The Fort Scott City Commission will be discussing a proposed program that encourages property owners and renters downtown to improve their buildings' facades. The meeting will start at 6 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 1 E. Third St. The Phoenix Committee has been discussing ways to encourage owners to fix up their buildings...

Five members of the Fort Scott High School band experienced the musical tour of a lifetime when they traveled to Europe this summer with the Kansas Music Ambassadors. In June, FSHS students Garrett Baugher, Blake Cowen, Patrick Fox, Rachel French and Kellen Wheeler took part in a goodwill tour of seven European countries as part of a KMA program. ...

The FSHS Pride of Tigerland Band will be traveling to Chicago on Memorial Day weekend next spring, according to a written statement by FSHS band director James Fox. While in Chicago, the 73-member FSHS band will perform for Memorial Day festivities at the Navy Pier on the Pepsi Skyline Stage. ...

A survey found a lack of more and better paying jobs as Fort Scott's most-pressing problem, alongside dissatisfaction with property maintenance and a need for better housing stock. The survey gave local residents a chance to express what they already know. Fort Scott needs a higher number of better paying jobs. The town needs better codes enforcement to combat the ever-present problem of rundown structures and poorly maintained homes. And yes, Fort Scott must get more and better housing...

Edward Eugene "Gene" Krebs, 75, a resident of rural Fort Scott and more recently of Fort Scott Manor, died early Sunday, September 16, 2007, at the Fort Scott Manor. He was born January 28, 1932, in Mapleton, Kansas, the son of Forney Edward Krebs and Annabelle Lomax Krebs. ...

James Lee Zornes, age 95, resident of Arma, Kansas, died Friday, September 14, 2007, at Mercy Health Center. He was born August 20, 1912 in Bourbon County, Kansas, the son of Robert Zornes and Myrtle Underwood Zornes. James married Doris Kendig in 1937. She preceded him in death. He married Georgia R. Houdashelt Toney on April 7, 1967, in Columbus, Kansas. She died on June 17, 2000...

Patrick Eldon Arnold, 68, Fort Scott, died Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007 at his home. Funeral arrangements for Patrick Eldon Arnold will be announced later by Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main St., Fort Scott, Kan.

George Lee Cooper, 77, Fort Scott, died Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007, at the Mercy Health Center emergency room. Funeral arrangements for George Lee Cooper will be announced later by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main St.

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In the season-opening games for 2007 Fort Scott Middle School seventh- and eighth-grade football Thursday evening, the Brahma Bulls defeated the Battlecats, 16-8, and the Huskers won over the injury-plagued Gators, 26-0. In the opening contest the Battlecats scored on a one-yard quarterback sneak with Jason Thorpe running in the two-point conversion...

Fort Scott High's junior varsity tennis team made up a previously rained-out home tournament Thursday and wrapped up its part of the season by producing a bracket champion in No. 1 singles. Brittany Doherty won the No. 1 singles division by going 3-0 on the day. She defeated Bobbi Ann Shanks of Columbus, 6-4, Daven Smith of Nevada, 6-3, and Eunae Abbuehl of Chanute, 6-4...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School's volleyball team went 1-2 at a quadranuglar here Thursday, defeating Labette County while losing to Chanute and Pittsburg. In the Tigers' win over LCHS -- by scores of 14-25, 25-22 and 15-12 -- Jenna Campbell served for 23 points and had three kills. Kori Allen led in kills with six and Morgan Tourtillott led in blocks with three...

LYNDON, Kan. -- Uniontown gave No. 5-ranked Lyndon a good challenge here Friday night before coming out on the short side of a 28-18 score. The Eagles, 0-3, led 18-13 after three quarters before Lyndon, 3-0, took control in the fourth with a pair of touchdowns...

MOUND CITY, Kan. -- Jeff Fairbanks scored all three touchdowns for Pleasanton here Friday night as the Blu-Jays defeated rival Jayhawk-Linn for the second consecutive time, 20-0 in Three Rivers League-Upper Division play. All the game's scoring happened in the second quarter. Fairbanks scored on two one-yard runs and a six-yard run. He rushed for 64 yards on 24 carries...

PITSBURG, Kan. -- Josh Wilson's one-yard scoring run with just under four minutes left in the contest gave Pittsburg a 14-7 win over Fort Scott High School in an early battle for the lead in the Southeast Kansas League at Hutchinson Field here Friday night...

USD 234 fifth graders could be traveling to St. Louis this March. USD 234 Superintendent Rick Werling said that even though Fort Scott is a small rural town, he wants the students in the district to experience as much as they can. According to Werling, this is what sparked his idea to create a trip for the fifth graders in the district. He said that he wants the students to learn about different types of transportation past and present...