Stories from Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Saturday night when No. 4-ranked Louisana State faces No. 1 Florida on national television, there will be one player on the field for the Tigers who will be familiar to Fort Scott Community College football fans. Former FSCC punter Derek Helton will be handling the punting duties for LSU as he has done all season thus far. Helton was the starting punter for the Greyhounds during the 2007 and 2008 seasons...

As the Fort Scott Community College football team takes the field Saturday afternoon against Dodge City , one member of the Greyhound staff will have a heavy heart outside of the football world. Earlier this week, FSCC head coach Jeff Sims learned that one of his past players, Sgt. Ryan Adams, was killed in the line of duty while serving for the United States Army in Afghanistan...

COLONY -- Uniontown wrapped up the Three Rivers League volleyball championship by sweeping Pleasanton and Crest here Tuesday night. The Eagles (23-1) beat Pleasanton, 25-14, 25-2, and Crest, 25-16, 25-10. In the match against Pleasanton, Abbie Smith recorded 13 kills and Jacy Ermel had 4. In the Crest match, Smith picked up 8 kills and Ermel recorded 6...

No room for Chanute on schedule as Prairie View assigned to Tigers' group

The Bourbon County Radio Control Flyers recently held their sixth model airplane aerobatic pattern contest with 18 participants from seven different states. Tom Gilkey from Mendota Heights, Minn., traveled the longest distance with Bryan Chumbley from Peoria, Ill., a close second. Local flyers were Todd Schmidt and Jarrett Lyon of Fort Scott...

Good news came to the Fort Scott Police Department Tuesday when the Fort Scott City Commission voted to accept a grant for the purchase of new equipment. FSPD was awarded money under the FY 09 Recovery Act Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program Local Solicitation in the amount of $27,495. ...

The Kansas Insurance Department had a record month in September for insurance claim recoveries for consumers, Commissioner Sandy Praeger announced Wednesday. The department's Consumer Assistance Division recovered nearly $4.5 million during the month through disputed claims from insurance companies. The total for the year now stands at $13.2 million, close to the $13.6 million recovered during all of 2008, a statement from Praeger's office said...

The Gordon Parks Celebration of Culture and Diversity has a new home this year. Much of the sixth annual celebration, which began Wednesday, will take place through Saturday at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center at Fort Scott Community College, 2108 S. Horton St. The celebration was created in 2004 to honor Parks, a Fort Scott native and noted photographer, writer, poet, musician and filmmaker who died in 2006...

About four months after it's anticipated beginning, the Wall Street resurfacing project is scheduled to begin later this month. Fort Scott City Manager Joe Turner announced during Tuesday's Fort Scott City Commission Meeting that the resurfacing of Wall Street is scheduled to begin Oct. ...

National Avenue will be getting a facelift in the next five years. Work has begun this week on the resurfacing of National Avenue from Linker to Wall streets, a project that is being funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Kansas Department of Transportation. The $228,280 project is one of 77 projects totaling $34.7 million, including $4.5 million for 13 projects in the agency's Southeast Kansas District, to be completed by KDOT...