Stories from Monday, April 19, 2010

The Maroon All-Stars, featuring Fort Scott High School seniors Gary Floyd and Jeremy Hull, defeated the White team 86-61 in an all-star game hosted by Fort Scott Community College Sunday at Arnold Arena. Teance Walton of Wichita East was named the game's Most Valuable Player as he finished with 16 points and also had a strong rebounding performance. ...

Fort Scott Community College's softball team swept all four games it played over the weekend. The Greyhounds swept Brown Mackie at Salina Saturday by scores of 1-0 and 7-0. Then they went to Concordia Sunday to make up Friday's rained-out doubleheader with Cloud County and won both games, 5-2 and 5-1...

Fort Scott Community College's baseball team remains the leader as the chase for the final playoff spot from the Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division heads into its final two weeks after a split of Labette Saturday at Lions Field. The Greyhounds took game one 2-1 in eight innings but dropped the second game 19-16. Fort Scott is in eighth place in the East (11-17 conference, 19-23 overall) going into a doubleheader today at ninth-place Kansas City Kansas (9-15, 22-15)...

The Scottish Rite of Fort Scott is excited to announce it will conduct its 23rd Reunion this Saturday. This is an outstanding time for the Scottish Rite Masons as they bring in new members to the organization. When a person becomes a Mason, they can choose to achieve a greater degree of proficiency in the Craft and the Scottish Rite as the next step...

Organizers of "Pride and Passion: the African-American Baseball Experience," a traveling exhibit on display in the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center at Fort Scott Community College, invite the public to a special event at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the center, 2108 S. Horton St...

TOPEKA, Kan. -- The governor has signed into law two new bills aimed at eliminating the backlog of DNA samples waiting to be analyzed at the Kansas Bureau of Investigation laboratories. For several years, Kansas law has required every person convicted of a crime to pay a laboratory fee of $400 if forensic laboratory work was required as part of the prosecution. ...

The Mill Continuing Education Department at Fort Scott Community College will offer the American Heart Association's CPR in the Schools, a class that covers Adult, Child and Infant choking and CPR, as well as use of the automated external defibrillator for adults and children. ...

Fort Scott National Historic Site and other units of the National Park System throughout the United States are celebrating National Park Week which continues through Sunday. During the week, entrance fees at all NPS units will be waived, encouraging more people to visit and enjoy the national parks. Visitors at FSNHS will still be able to purchase Interagency Passes, but will not need to pay the normal $3 admission fee...

The Bourbon County Chapter of the American Red Cross is rolling out the bikes for one of its largest fundraisers of the year. The chapter will conduct the Second Annual Ride for the Red Poker Run on Sunday, May 2. Riders will meet to register for the event and enjoy breakfast served by Bourbon County 4-H junior leaders starting at 8:30 a.m. at the Bourbon County 4-H Building and Fairgrounds located at the corner of 23rd and Horton streets. The ride will begin at 10 a.m. at the fairgrounds...

Two Bourbon County cities will be working hard to do a little spring cleaning. The City of Fort Scott will be providing a program in which local residents can discard old items free of charge. The Spring Clean-up Program consists of a city crew performing one-time-only pickups to gather discarded items from the curb. According to city officials, once the crew has gone through a certain section, they will not return for additional pickups...