Stories from Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The Fort Scott Recreation Commission held its annual Corporate Olympics last week with six local businesses participating. The overall winner was Ward Kraft with 269 points. Carlisle Industries followed with 247 points, then Fort Scott Community College with 238, Great West Insurance with 190, 1st Source with 126 and Citizens Bank with 63...

NEODESHA -- A short-handed Uniontown team, missing one of its male and female athletes due to injuries, won three events and 17 medals at the Neodesha Invitational here Thursday. Jamie Shelton won boys' javelin with a throw of 151 feet, one inch and also finished third in the high jump. Drew Johnson took boys' high jump at 5' 10" and also took second in the triple jump and fourth in long jump...

Who in your house has control of the TV clicker? Remember way back before there were 'clickers'? You had to go over to the TV and change channels, or turn the volume up or down, or try to get rid of the 'snow'. Well, all that changed when 'clickers' were invented. ...

ESHELBRENNER-- Tyler James Eshelbrenner, a boy, was born at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City on Saturday, April 26, 2008 to parents Dale and Sara Eshelbrenner, Fort Scott. Maternal grandparents are Kathy and Andy Bultman, Harbor Springs, Mich. Paternal grandparents are Sandra Dudley and Robert Eshelbrenner, Fort Scott...

Marvin Wesley Rankin, age 71, resident of 312 S. Heylman, Fort Scott, Kansas, died Saturday, April 26, 2008, at the Bonner Springs Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Bonner Springs, KS. He was born June 28, 1936, in Prescott, KS, the son of Ruben W. ...

Elmer "Wilgus" McLaughlin Jr., age 87, of Iola, Kansas formerly of Mound City, Kansas died Monday, April 28, 2008, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola, Kansas. He was born on January 23, 1921, in Blue Mound, Kansas the son of Elmer Wilgus and Alice Pauline Thyer McLaughlin. ...

Allen County put an end to Fort Scott Community College's winning streak in the second game of a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader at Lions Field Saturday afternoon. But some saw this as a good sign...

BRONSON -- A long-standing Bronson tradition will continue next month with the arrival of the 36th Annual Bronson Day event. The annual celebration, which is sponsored and organized by several groups and organizations in the Bronson area, is scheduled to take...

While many actors and actresses long to make it to Broadway or Hollywood, two groups of local thespians and one writer only wish to make it to Maryland this summer. Groups of students from Fort Scott High School and Fort Scott Christian Heights competed and...

CHANUTE -- Fort Scott High's golf team defeated Southeast Kansas League leader Chanute on its home course here Monday, led by the winning individual score of Cole Murrin, who had missed the last two tournaments with a knee injury, The Tigers won their third title of the season, scoring a four-man score of 320 in this non-league tourney. The host Blue Comets shot 324 while Iola was a distant third with 340...