Stories from Saturday, February 23, 2008

SALINA, Kan. -- As a whole, the 2008 Kansas Class 4A State Wrestling Tournament will not be a great experience for Fort Scott High School's entrants. Only one of the four Tiger wrestlers was still active after the first day of action at the Bicentennial Center here Friday...

Hi neighbors. Have a cup of coffee and relax for a while. Wednesday my son and I spent the day in Bolivar. First we visited the genealogy library and then spent the evening at my aunt's home. My son bravely held up under countless introductions to 'some-kind-of-cousins' and even tolerated digging through obituaries and probates with me. ...

Hearing a clerk the other day respond to a customer's thanks for carrying a heavy box from the store to her car with the simple phrase, "Hey, no problem," I couldn't help reacting with the same mixed feelings I've been reacting to it since they first started polluting the air around the time Bush and Cheney began inhabiting the White House...

It has been more than 50 years since my brother and sister and I have gone on a trip together. We recently had an occasion to escort my 91-year-old aunt to Wickenburg, Ariz. It proved to be a great time for all of us to get together and share memories and enjoy each other's company...

By Jason E. Silvers Herald-Tribune The FSCC Board of Trustees plans to address several items concerning the 2008-'09 school year on Monday. Among the items the board plans to address at the meeting, which is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Monday in the FSCC Heritage Room, 2108 S. Horton St., include slight increases in some tuition costs and fees at the college next year...

This area is the starting point for a novel of the Devon family, the first of a trilogy, based on the real-life experiences the author's ancestors in Kansas and Colorado in the 1800s. "Wolves at the Door" by Thomas A. Chown transports the reader from 1860s Kansas City south to Fort Scott and west to La Junta, Colo...

Change is brewing at the Herald-Tribune, Fort Scott Tribune and Nevada Daily Mail. As of March 1, the three newspapers will become morning newspapers. "This will be a great benefit to our readers. The news will be available online first thing in the morning and in homes earlier than before," said publisher Julie Righter...

FORT SCOTT -- There are people among the residents of this city who look at their hometown and see a need for improvement. They have a dream of its bright future -- a vision of the outstanding community it could someday become. Now, a new way to make this happen is in place...

"I keep thinking about my customers. I'm going to miss them so much," said the Nevada Daily Mail's 10-year veteran newspaper carrier. A chapter in newspaper history is coming to a close in Nevada and Fort Scott, as the Fort Scott Tribune, Nevada Daily Mail and Weekend Herald-Tribune make the switch to delivery via the U.S. Postal Service on March 1...

Iona "Nonny" Stahl, age 95, of Lamar, passed away at 1:50 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, at Barton County Memorial Hospital. Nonny was born Nov. 1, 1912, in Barton County Mo., one of the eleven children of Simon and Daisy (Hall) Washburn. After graduating from Lamar High School in 1930, she earned a teacher's certificate from Ozark Wesleyan College, in Carthage, and taught in various rural schools in Barton County. ...

Steven Leslie Smith, 53, of Nevada, passed away on Wedneday, Feb. 20, 2008, at his home in Nevada, following a lenghthy illness. He was born on July 25, 1954, in Nevada, to Cecil Lee Smith and Flossie Juanita Snead Smith. He married Pamela June Rayburn, on Jan. 24, 1976, and she survives of the home...

Robert Allen Chastain, 72, of Bronaugh, passed away suddenly on Friday, Feb. 22, 2008, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He was born on July 8, 1935, in Inglewood, Calif., to James Hugh and Zelpha Chastain. He married Velma Louise Faust, on May 12, 1956, in Long Beach, Calif., and she survives of the home...

Lola Glendora Tabor, 100, of Nevada, passed away Friday, Feb. 22, 2008, at Moore-Few Care Center, in Nevada, following an illness of several weeks. She was born Jan. 20, 1908, in El Reno, Okla., to Jess William Gann and Maude Dalton Shira Gann. She was married Sept. 14, 1928, in Kansas City, Mo., to Warfel Ray "Whitie" Tabor and he preceded her in death...

Mabel Florence Bridges, age 101, former resident of Guest Home Estates and more recently of Fort Scott Manor, died Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, at Mercy Health Center. She was born July 29, 1906, in Mulberry, Kan., the daughter of Orville James Fulton and Tillie Esther Hunsicker Fulton. ...