Stories from Friday, February 27, 2009

Fort Scott Community College has made a few changes as it tries to ensure that its baseball and softball teams are able to play their first scheduled home games of the season this weekend. With the forecast calling for snow on Saturday, the FSCC baseball team has decided to reschedule Saturday's single game against Des Moines Area as the second game of a doubleheader this afternoon. That doubleheader will begin at 1 p.m. Lions Field...

COFFEYVILLE -- Fort Scott High's girls completed their run through the Southeast Kansas League without a loss after beating Coffeyville, 54-38, here Friday night. The Tigers (16-0 SEK, 17-3 overall) have won 10 straight games with their last loss coming in a non-league game at Girard on Jan. 16. Girard is 17-3 and will be the No. 1 seed at the Chanute Sub-State next week...

Tigers hold off Coffeyville rally; Labette County falls at Parsons, 49-42

A group of youth who participate in the local Big Brothers Big Sisters organization were treated to a special showing of The Pink Panther 2 on Saturday at Fort Cinema. According to BBBS of Bourbon County case manager Trisha Kealoha, about 30 youth and their local mentors attended the movie event, which was funded through a Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas grant...

The railroad crossing on Wall Street will be getting a makeover. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway plans to replace its crossing on Wall Street just east of US-69 in Fort Scott. The work is scheduled to begin Monday, March 2, and be completed on Thursday, March 5, weather permitting...

A meeting of the minds was held Tuesday evening at City Hall to discuss economic development. The Fort Scott and Bourbon County commissions along with representatives from the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce, Young Professionals League, Fort Scott Community College, Bourbon County Economic Development Council and the City of Fort Scott assembled in the Commission Room inside City Hall, 1 E. 3rd Street, to get the various entities on the same page...

Fort Scott Community College will host the annual Kansas History Day District 2 competition Saturday on the FSCC campus, 2108 S. Horton St. The sixth annual contest, which is sponsored by the Kansas State Historical Society, is open to all area high school and middle school students, and includes students from schools in 15 other District 2 counties in Southeast Kansas. The theme for this year's contest is "The Individual in History: Actions and Legacies."...

The grass at Fort Scott Community College's ecological park was set afire Thursday morning in order to enhance the look of the area. According to Fort Scott Fire Department Fire Chief Paul Ballou, despite a storm system in the local area, city firefighters, Scott Township firefighters and Fort Scott public works employees conducted part of a controlled burn in the FSCC ecological park, which is located between the main FSCC campus and the college's athletic fields...

Fort Scott Community College's baseball team will be playing today, but it won't be the Greyhounds' home opener after all. Sometime overnight, the sprinkler system at Lions Field malfunctioned, soaking the playing field and rendering it unusable for today. Because the opponent, Des Moines Area (Iowa), would very likely be unable to return to Fort Scott for make-up games, it was decided to move the games to Allen County Community College's home field at Iola...

They have been called "zealots," "fanatics," "rebels," and even "nuts." They have been listed as a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Obsessed with helping the world see the error of its ways and unscathed by what others say about them, they speak up at public forums, college plays, and even funerals. Allow me to introduce you to the radical followers of Fred Phelps, pastor of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church...