Stories from Friday, October 12, 2007

PITTSBURG -- Three members of Fort Scott High's cross country team earned All-SEK honors with their finishes at the Southeast Kansas League Championship Meet at Four Oaks Golf Course here Thursday. Catherine Sercer finished second in the varsity girls' meet while Kaylee Harper placed seventh, which earned First Team honors for both runners. ...

If you were going toward the south at Ellis Park Thursday afternoon, your team enjoyed the advantage. All four goals in a Southeast Kansas League soccer match between Fort Scott High and Coffeyville were scored into the south goal. But the Golden Tornado found the net three times in the second half, when they were going in that direction...

The Gunn Park Event Committee and the City of Fort Scott have brought back an evening of frights and delights for local residents to experience later this month. The second annual Halloween in the Park will take place Oct. 26-27 in Gunn Park, 1010 Park Ave. The park will be replete with Halloween-themed decorations, and the event will feature several hayrack rides, refreshments, and other games and activities related to the holiday...

Local resident Edith LaFarge recently discovered a rare bloom on a plant in her back yard. LaFarge planted an Elephant Ear plant bulb in her backyard garden last spring. According to a Web site at www.gardenersnet.com, Elephant ear plants are big leafy plants. The name of the plant is derived from the large leaves which resemble elephant's ears, the Website said...

Ten miniature horses Wednesday were loaded up and transferred to two horse farms, where they'll get immediate care. Vern Trembly, owner of Trembly Tiny Trails in Uniontown, voluntarily agreed to surrender his horses to the outside care providers. The rescued horses were the ones in need of the most care, Bourbon County Undersheriff Ron Gray said...

THURSTON -- Kelsi Brooke Thurston, a girl, was born at 1:55 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, at Manorah Hospital in Overland Park to parents Bobby and Candy Thurston, Richards, Mo. She weighed 7 pounds 15 ounces and measured 18 1/2 inches long at birth. She joins a sibling, Tyler James Thurston. Maternal grandparents are Jim and Becky Keith, Richards, Mo. Paternal grandparents are Gary and Evelyn Thurston, Richards, Mo...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) The $41,500 church building reared by the Methodists of the First church is to be dedicated in the morning. The church is to be dedicated free of debt. Every dollar of the needed money has been subscribed. One year ago last June the old church was torn down...

To the Editor, Because of my father's occupation, I lived in Fort Scott from the age of eight until eighteen. However, it is not because of my father's occupation that I call Fort Scott my hometown. I visit frequently because my family is, friends are, and memories are all around. ...

After nearly nine months of construction and preparation, the new Walgreens drugstore is open and ready for business. The 10,500-square-foot building, located at 2229 S. Main St., the corner of 23rd and U.S. Highway 69, opened Oct. 5 with a staff of about 25 people. Plans to build the Fort Scott store began nearly two years ago, officials said...

My younger daughter recently completed her master's and has since found employment with an engineering firm. Consequently, she recently needed to move out of her apartment in Lincoln and relocate. It was clear, then, that we needed to rent a truck and go get to work! I really had not forgotten, but had the awareness reinforced that moving is definitely work. We packed, loaded, and then hit the road with our load...

There may be areas of rangeland with highly concentrated stands of woody plants that have not been controlled by fire or mechanical means. If those areas have good potential for producing desirable forage, producers should consider making spot treatments of the woody vegetation before it becomes unmanageable. Fall is a good time to make those treatments and Rangeland Management Specialist Walter Fick offers the following strategies:...