Stories from Friday, May 23, 2008

Betty Ruth James Karle, age 76, passed away Tuesday, May 20, 2008 in Mena, Ark. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, 2 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Pleasanton, Kan. Burial will be in the Pleasanton Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 1 p.m. ...

Gregory Edward Kuplen, age 55, a resident of Fort Scott, died Tuesday, May 6, 2008. A memorial tribute service for family and friends will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 24, 2008, at the Courtland Hotel, 121 E. First Street, Fort Scott, Kan. Memorial contributions are suggested to the Kansas University Alumni Fund, and may be left in care of Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott, Kan., 66701. Words of sympathy may be e-mailed to the family at condolences@cheneywitt.com...

The Fort Scott High School debate and forensics team will hold two fundraisers next week with proceeds going toward a trip to the National Forensics League's National Debate and Forensics Tournament in Las Vegas, Nev., June 15-21. The first fundraiser will be an 18-hole disc golf tournament, which will be held from 2-4 p.m. ...

An ordinance that will change restrictions on residency requirements of city employees will soon go into effect. The amended ordinance had a first reading at Tuesday's city commission meeting. The second and final reading will be at the next commission meeting on June 3...

Team members involved in the 2008 Bourbon County Relay for Life are making it easier for local residents to purchase luminaries for this year's event. Relay for Life teams have scheduled a luminary drive-through sale from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday in the parking lot of Woods Supermarket, 2322 S. Main St...

Fort Scott Community College administrators, teachers and staff will see small boosts in their paychecks next year. After several weeks, contract negotiations between FSCC Association of Professional Employees (FS-CAPE) representatives and FSCC administrators for the 2008-09 school year wrapped up on May 16, with both sides unanimously approving an agreement that will provide slightly more than 2 percent pay increases next year to nearly 200 full-time FSCC employees, including more than 50 instructors and FS-CAPE members.. ...

Area residents who often travel east of town on Limestone Road will soon find passage on this road a much safer experience. Due to the many thunderstorms that have blown through the local area recently, the low-water bridge located just past 255th Street on Limestone Road has spent a lot of time under water. The high waters, which would quite often creep over the bridge, had begun to erode the bridge causing half of the bridge to become impassable even after the waters had receded...

Hi neighbors. Monday is Memorial Day and I hope you can join your family in placing flowers and flags on your ancestors' graves. Many people feel Memorial Day is a time to recognize the importance in our lives of those people we knew or were related to who have died...

When Virginia Hornecker was 82 years old she decided it was time to make sure the farm she and her husband lived on went to her daughters. So, she decided to split it between them then, just as long as she could live on it the rest of her life. That decision led to a series of events that has brought the 84-year-old headaches, aggravation and she says, threats from her neighbor...