Stories from Friday, February 6, 2009

The Fort High School Physics Club will host a Homecoming Chili Feed on February 13 from 4 p.m. to 6:30 in the high school commons area as part of the basketball Homecoming festivities prior to the Tigers' games against Chanute. Partons can choose a bowl of chili or a chili-dog along with a homemade dessert and drink. Cost is for $5 for adults and $2.50 for children 12 or younger. Proceeds will go towards college scholarships for Physics Club seniors...

By Scott Nuzum Tribune Sports Editor _ Fort Scott head coach Jeff DeLaTorre didn't have to say a lot after Thursday night's Southeast Kansas League make-up game at the FSHS gymnasium. There just aren't a lot of words one can use to describe a third quarter in which visiting Coffeyville saw absolutely everything go its way, outscoring the Tigers 20-4 and dominating every aspect of that period, as the Golden Tornado went on to a 59-38 victory...

Fort Scott High's girls won their fourth straight game and kept the lead in the Southeast Kansas League all to themselves Thursday night as they defeated Coffeyville, 58-46, in a make-up game at the FSHS gymnasium. The game followed a bit of a pattern the Tigers are establishing. They trailed early in the first quarter before coming back to make a game of it later and going on to the victory...

By Jason E. Silvers The Fort Scott Tribune Bourbon County was recently awarded federal funds that will be used to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the area. The county received $9,938 in funds under the federal Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program, local officials announced Tuesday...

By Michael Pommier The Fort Scott Tribune Students from several area high schools recently flocked to Fort Scott High School to engage in a competition of the minds. Fort Scott High School hosted the area Scholars Bowl tournament on Monday. The tournament saw participation from 18 local schools including Uniontown, Pittsburg, Chanute, Iola, St. Paul, Crest, Frontenac, Baxter Springs, Northeast-Arma, Paola, Columbus, Marmaton Valley, Girard, Erie and two teams from Fort Scott...

The Fort Scott Tribune Sioux Falls, SD -- Fort Scott Community College's Livestock Judging Coach, James Thompson and his team attended the Sioux Empire Farm Show Wednesday, Jan. 28. Thompson wanted his team to compete in showing animals that they raised...

Margie Ladine Johnson, age 81, resident of Fort Scott, died unexpectedly Wednesday morning, Feb. 4, 2009, at her home. She was born April 4, 1927, the daughter of Edward D. Clark and Dora Anna Whiteside Clark. She was a member of the Fort Scott High School Class of 1946...

100 YEARS AGO (1909) The juniors of the high school last evening gave a five course dinner to the members of the faculty at the home of Miss Grace Hart. 512 Main Street. The senior girls of the high school decided upon a uniform dress for graduation. They will wear white linen shirt waist suits with black string ties and black slippers. No decision as to the wearing of an academic cap has been reached...

Special To Tribune Fort Scott Community College student Lindsey Alcorn attended the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama while on a trip that she and 13 other students from Paola High School had been planning for a year. The trip which was the inspiration of PHS government instructor, Cristie Sims, ran from January 18--22. ...

President Dale Jackson called the Uniontown Ruritan meeting to order at 7 p.m., Jan. 19 in the annex of the First United Methodist church. He led the club in singing "America" followed by the invocation by Ken Holt. The club members thanked the United Methodist women for the delicious meal of ham, beans, combread, vegetable tray, and home made pie which they prepared...

Rev. Dr. John F. Nipper arrived Jan. 4, to become interim pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Fort Scott. He will serve until a new pastor is called and installed. Typically, according to Dr. Nipper, that takes one to two years. He said, "The interim pastor comes to ease the transition between the departing and arriving installed pastors."...

The administration at the high school where I teach not only seeks to support our strategies to meet No Child Left Behind's mandates, but it also strongly encourages the teachers and para-professionals to "come alongside" the students, to know them beyond their G.P.A. and school activities and to give them a safe place to hang. Times have certainly changed!...

By Rayma Silvers The Fort Scott Tribune Not only are fatalities on the Kansas highways at a record low, but recent studies show a decrease in the number of highway fatalities across the country as well. According to a press release from the Kansas Department of Transportation, preliminary records show the fatalities on Kansas Highways, which dropped about 8 percent in 2008, reached an all-time low. ...

The administration at the high school where I teach not only seeks to support our strategies to meet No Child Left Behind's mandates, but it also strongly encourages the teachers and para-professionals to "come alongside" the students, to know them beyond their G.P.A. and school activities and to give them a safe place to hang. Times have certainly changed!...

The administration at the high school where I teach not only seeks to support our strategies to meet No Child Left Behind's mandates, but it also strongly encourages the teachers and para-professionals to "come alongside" the students, to know them beyond their G.P.A. and school activities and to give them a safe place to hang. Times have certainly changed!...