Stories from Wednesday, January 23, 2008

MOUND CITY -- Jayhawk-Linn's girls improved to 7-4 with a 63-27 win over former Three Rivers League rival Uniontown in a non-league contest here Tuesday night. This was the second consecutive meeting for the teams. Jayhawk-Linn won the third-place game over Uniontown, 48-33, Saturday at Pleasanton's tournament...

OVERLAND PARK -- Fort Scott Community College's men took their eighth straight loss Monday night, falling to Johnson County, 74-56, here in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play Monday night. The Greyhounds (0-6, 5-13) haven't won since defeating Central Nebraska in Hutchinson on Dec. 8 -- their only win this season that didn't come against a four-year school's junior varsity team...

COFFEYVILLE -- Fort Scott High's girls find themselves in second place after one trip through the Southeast Kansas League's new double-round robin schedule after dominating Coffeyville, 55-25, at Stoner-McClure Gymnasium here Tuesday night. Coming off Monday's performance in a 62-48 win over Columbus in which they shot 50 percent from the field, the Tigers (7-1 SEK, 8-4 overall) actually improved on that, shooting 52 percent on 22 of 42 Tuesday...

COFFEYVILLE -- Monday night, Fort Scott High's boys lost to the last-place team in the Southeast Kansas League, Columbus, which was the Titans' first league win of the season. Tuesday night, the Tigers bounced back and, with the aid of a 14-3 third-quarter run, gave SEK leader Coffeyville -- the No. 6-ranked team in Class 4A in the Kansas Basketbal Coaches Association poll -- its first league loss of the season...

The importance of conservation and wildlife habitat is well publicized when it's focused on the need to preserve the rain forest and other similar places. However, some Bourbon County residents may not know that the local wildlife habitat needs to be preserved, as well. In addition, the natural resources that are obtained locally -- such as water -- need to be kept clean...

Northeast Fort Scott residents who live near an asphalt plant on Ivy Street expressed concern at Tuesday's commission meeting about the construction of a ready mix concrete plant in the same area that they say will compound the many nuisances linked with the facilities...

Gabrielle Studer spends much of her time working with area youth both inside and outside the classroom. The 22-year-old local resident, who teaches freshman English at Fort Scott High School, has also spent the last three years working as a volunteer for the Bourbon County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), an agency founded in 1990 that helps abused or neglected children of various ages during juvenile court proceedings, after the child is placed in child protective services. ...

Mary Aileen Beatrice Farley, born on a farm northwest of Pleasanton, August 30, 1908, passed away in Butler, Mo. on Jan. 21, 2008. She was the daughter of Wiley Fletcher Long and Cora Etta (Peterson) Long. Beatrice (known as Bea) grew up on a farm north of Mound City, Kansas, attending Mount Carmel Grade School and graduating from Pleasanton High School in 1927. She had one brother, Arthur, who preceded her in death...

Mayia Grace Jewell Spence-Cox, a girl, was born at 5:49 p.m. Monday, Jan. 21, 2008, at Mercy Health Center to parents Barbara Michelle Spence and Marvin Lee Cox, Pleasanton. She weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces. Maternal grandmother are Helen Paternal grandmother is Donna Wolf, Fort Scott. Paternal grandmother is Donna O'Brian, Pleasanton...

Gage Clark McGinnis, a boy, was born at 1:56 p.m. Monday, Jan. 21, 2008, at Mercy Health Center to parents Brandon and Rebecca McGinnis, La Cygne. He weighed 8 pounds, 7 ounces at birth. He joins three siblings; Dalton, Rylee, and Eli. Maternal grandparents are Jerry and Mary Jane Heiser, Pleasanton. Paternal grandparents are Clark and Marilyn McGinnis, Pleasanton, and Norman and Sue Coureton, Overland Park...

The start of a new year is a good time to take stock of all the papers and documents which are a part of our lives. Canceled checks, receipts, insurance policies, deeds…the list goes on and on. And as years pass, storing all those papers takes up a lot of space in our homes...

Have you checked your water meter lid lately? I went out to read mine last week and the lid and the collar under it were gone. I have no idea what could have happened to it unless some of the truckers who go by here with loads of metal might have stopped and added them to their load. I called the water department and they came out right away and replaced the lid and collar. I hope it doesn't happen again...

We had a small group at the dance tonight at Buck Run Community Center. The weather didn't cooperate too well and people hated to get out in the freezing rain I am sure. However with coffee made and th e table set for snack time all went well. Marion Shrimplin our singer and bass guitar player is still under the weather. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) Last evening, at the home of Dr. and Mrs. A.E. Currier, 312 Eddy Street, occurred the wedding of Mr. Edward Gordon and Miss Grace Anna Currier, daughter of George Currier, the Hammond merchant, and a granddaughter of Dr. and Mrs. ...

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