Stories from Thursday, July 31, 2008

Candidates who are vying for local, state and national offices pitched their campaigns and fielded questions from the public during a forum Tuesday at Buck Run Community Center. Two of the three candidates who are competing for the Kansas Senate District 13 seat, Democrat Patty Horgan and Republican Bob Marshall, attended the forum to give voters more information about themselves as they continue down the campaign trail...

For some area residents, typical household chores include loading up once or twice a month and driving to a nearby town in order to launder their families' dirty clothes. However, in the near future, families will not need to take such drastic measures to keep their clothes clean. According to Greg Schick, of Golden Arrow Corporation, Fort Scott, residents will soon have access to a local, top quality and energy efficient laundromat...

ST. LOUIS -- The April 15 tax deadline is long passed, but it's not too late to file a 2007 tax return for your economic stimulus payment. The Internal Revenue Service says retirees, disabled veterans and low-wage workers are eligible but may not know it, or think it is too late to get a payment...

Luella Winterberg, age 90, beloved with of the late John, loving mother of Wayne Winterberg, dear sister of Audrey Frantz, and fond friend of her caregivers Frances Wisniewska and Connie O'Malley, died July 24, 2008, in Illinois. Luella was a graduate of the Fort Scott High School Class of 1936...

Bessie Caroline Caldwell, age 93, former resident of Arcadia, Kansas and more recently of Miami, Oklahoma died Tuesday, July 29, 2008, at the Osborne Care and Rehab Center, in Miami. She was born Oct. 8, 1914, in Manhattan, Kan., the daughter of Thomas Endicott and Minnie Fisk Endicott. ...

Krystal Reneč Bray and Jose de Jesús Valadez, of Fort Scott, and big sister Kaylee Reneč Bray are proud to announce the birth of there son and baby brother Aydenn Jesús Alejandro Valadez. Aydenn was born at 11:05 p.m., on July 28, 2008, at Mercy Health System, in Fort Scott. He weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) J.T. Tryling, a lineman for the Katy at Sedalia, was here yesterday on business. Mr. Tryling, a rather unassuming gentleman, proved himself a hero at Nevada yesterday and according to G. Sherman Knox, of this city, will be decorated with a Carnegie Award for bravery and presence of mind. ...

My daughters have suggested occasionally that it might be time for an every-day-life "re-orientation" for me and my wife. We have not totally embraced the world of text messages, blackberries, i-phones, etc. We do use e-mail and have cell phones (quite progressive I thought), but with the phones we simply dial a number, let it ring, then talk to the person on the other end if someone answers...

The term "pesticide" can include herbicides, fungicides, or insecticides for home gardening, common agriculture, or right of ways. Some pesticides are labeled as "Restricted use Pesticides" or RUP. In 2008, there were over 10,131 products registered for use in Kansas, with over 316 of those classified as Restricted Use. The Environmental Protection Agency determines if a product is a RUP based on potiental hazards to the applicator and the environment...

Photos taken at the season-ending banquet Wednesday, July 30