Stories from Monday, March 29, 2010

Due to wet field conditions at Lions Park, Fort Scott High School's season-opening baseball game against Nevada has been moved to Nevada's Lyons Stadium. The times remain the same with the varsity contest between the teams scheduled to begin at 4:30 with a junior varsity game to follow...

Four Fort Scott High School basketball players recently received All-State honors from the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association, two of them as All-Academic team members. The All-Academic players were Logan Fancher and Jacob Ruhl, both seniors. Players named to this list have to meet certain criteria pertaining to class rank, grade-point average and ACT score...

PITTSBURG -- The Fourth Annual U.S. Army/Army Strong High School Basketball All-Star Game took place at St. Mary's-Colgan Fieldhouse here Sunday, with Team KLKC winning both the boys and girls games. Forty student athletes played in the event, from 22 different Southeast Kansas area schools. Among them were Fort Scott's Gary Floyd and Jolee Sharp and Uniontown's Abbie Smith...

NEVADA -- Mother Nature attempted to put a stop to Monday evening's interstate baseball battle, wetting down the field at Fort Scott's Lions Field. Nevada and Fort Scott High School coaches and athletic directors went right to work to avoid that cancellation, however, and ultimately moved the contest to Lyons Stadium in Nevada, allowing the Tigers to begin their season after all...

More than 31,000 bags of trash -- that's just an average of what Adopt-A-Highway groups in Kansas remove from along roadways each year. This number is a rough estimate by the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT), that sponsors the program, taking the number of groups and multiplying them by an average of 15 bags of trash per clean up three times a year. But it illustrates the positive impact the Adopt-A-Highway program has in Kansas...

HUTCHINSON -- The Fort Scott Chapter of Ducks Unlimited was recognized with the "Pintail Flight" award at the state convention of Kansas Ducks Unlimited held recently in Hutchinson. Each year, outstanding Kansas DU committees are honored and recognized at the event for exceptional achievement in fundraising and activity. Area Chair, Chris Tourtillott, received the carved wood decoy representing achievement of a 42-percent increase in funds raised for the 2009 event year...

The Fort Scott High School forensic squad recently completed another exciting week. Starting Thursday, the Tigers competed in Chanute and 15 finalists secured an easy first-place squad finish. Champions included Chase Rooks, Blake Cowen, Chris Clay, Leah Casselman, Jeff Durbin and Abby Williams...

The annual Plus 5 Dinner took place Thursday in the Fort Scott High School commons area. Forty students qualified to receive invitations to the dinner. The program began in 1991 to recognize students who were able to raise their third quarter grade .5 or above their cumulative grade point average...

A sunny, 60-degree day and several furry four-legged friends greeted residents of Medicalodges of Fort Scott who were able to get outside on Monday. Shelly McColm, an instructor at Fort Scott Community College, and students in her Civic Engagement class visited the local skilled nursing facility to help residents enjoy animals from the Horses of Hope Riding Center, Inc., a therapeutic equestrian facility based in Baxter Springs. ...

After years of searching, the City of Fort Scott may have found a suitable location for a new City Hall. During a special meeting of the Fort Scott City Commission at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, at City Hall, 1 E. Third St., the commission will discuss the possibility of moving City Hall from it's current location in the basement of Memorial Hall to the former Social Rehabilitation Services building located at 123 S. Main St...