Stories from Wednesday, September 26, 2007

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School's golfers left Crestwood Country Club here Tuesday without either a team medal or an individual medal for the first time since opening the season at Girard with only three players. The Tigers shot 485 as a team to finish seventh and no individual was able to score less than 109 at the Pittsburg Invitational...

NEVADA -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team was shut out here Tuesday, dropping all nine matches in a dual meet. This meet had six singles matches and three doubles matches. This put some of the players in unfamiliar position as as the same group of six players plays in one singles and one doubles match...

As it turns out, Fort Scott Community College's football team is undefeated after all. The Greyhounds lost on the field at Independence, 20-16, on Sept. 1. But earlier this week, the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference awarded that game to Fort Scott after it was discovered that Independence had used an ineligible player...

LaDee Tyler, 76, of La Junta, passed away Tuesday, September 25, 2007. Visitation will be Wednesday, September 26, 2007 from 3 to 7 p.m. at Peacock-Larsen Funeral Home. Funeral service will be Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 1 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church with Reverend M.J. Romano officiating. Graveside services will be in Braman, Okla., on Saturday, September 29, 2007 at 10 a.m...

Visitors to Fort Scott National Historic Site will enter free on Saturday, Sept. 29, as part of "National Public Lands Day". The National Park Service will join other Department of Interior agencies, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Forest Service in waiving entrance fees as a chance for citizens to experience the nation's public owned lands...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) After shaking hands with old acquaintances as he emerged from the 11 o'clock Missouri Pacific passenger train, Jasper Kemp, colored, formerly of Fort Scott, died as he stepped into a cab to be driven to the home of a sister, who resides here death was due to dropsy. ...

On Sept. 10, Autumn Leaves Senior Citizens met in their Cottage with nine present for blood pressure readings given by Lisa Roberts from Girard Medical Center. The building looked very nice outside since Jack Payne had mowed and cleaned the sidewalk.  Inside was very clean by the Shriners who had a dinner there following their participation in the Arcadia Parade.  Decorations were fall flowers.  The organization gave a donation to the club. ...

The reader's theatre production of "I Rise" will be a feature of the 4th Annual Gordon Parks Celebration of Culture and Diversity scheduled for Oct. 3-6. The production is directed by Patty LaRoche, a speech and theatre instructor at Fort Scott High School. The Bourbon County Arts Council's E.C. Gordon Fine Arts Series is sponsoring the production...

All Four Days Wednesday Oct. 3 Thursday, Oct. 4 Friday Oct. 5 Saturday Oct. 6...

While the students in the USD 234 school district had the day off on Friday to relax, teachers in the district were working just as hard as always. Teachers and administrators at Fort Scott High School,1005 S. Main St., and Fort Scott Middle School, 1105 E. 12th St., assembled at the middle school all day Friday to discuss reading strategies and analyze test data, FSMS Principal Barbara Albright said...

Fort Scott Community College is now on board a plan by city officials to revitalize certain portions of Fort Scott. During the regular FSCC Board of Trustees meeting on Monday, the board voted unanimously to approve the college's involvement in the Neighborhood Revitalization Program, which involves several capital projects to clean up and improve certain areas in Fort Scott, including street repair, downtown restoration, cleanup of parks, and water and sewer improvements. ...

June 9, 2008, may not mean a whole lot to most people. But for two people, it's an important day. For Heather Steiger, that Monday brings an uneasy feeling. Dread, perhaps. Fear, maybe. For Steven G. Smith, that day signifies freedom. Perhaps it will mark the first day of a new start. It could, however, mean trouble for Steiger or other women...