Stories from Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Nova M. Wright, age 89, resident of Blue Mound, Kan., died early Monday, July 12, at Mercy Health Center. She was born July 8, 1921, in Selma, Kan., the daughter of Roy Miller and Malinda Fetters Miller. She married Earnest I. Wright in 1945. He preceded her in death in June of 1998...

Due to a storm on Sunday night, it affected some of the telephone and Life Line Services. Cindy Remblinger from Fort Scott came to check a Life Line who called the Telephone Company who sent a helper who found the problem and soon all was well in Arcadia. It delayed the sending of Arcadia news this week...

More than 4,700 undergraduate students at the University of Kansas earned honor roll distinction for the spring 2010 semester. The students, from the Lawrence campus and the schools of allied health and nursing at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., represent 99 of 105 Kansas counties, 44 other states and the District of Columbia and more than 40 other countries...

The Uniontown Garden Club will conduct a Create-A-Rainbarrel workshop at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 23, at the southeast shelter house in Uniontown City Park. A $10 registration fee is due by July 26. Those people interested in attending can mail a check along with his or her name, address (preferably e-mail address), and phone number to Loretta George, 757 Maple, Uniontown, Kan., 66779. ...

Pittsburg State University will begin planning for the next decade of renovations and new construction next week as consultants visit campus to begin the development of a new master plan. Representatives with the Kansas City-based firm Gould Evans will be on campus July 13-14 to tour PSU and to get input from the university community about the future of PSU's physical campus and facilities. ...

WICHITA -- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced a new pilot program at the Wichita VA Regional Office to conduct on-the-spot reviews of claims for disability compensation and pension benefits in order to provide expedited claims decisions for Veterans...

A group of local road projects are among 85 statewide construction projects to be awarded contracts in one of the largest monthly bid lettings ever by the Kansas Department of Transportation. The local projects, totaling about $1.8 million, include a $766,263 project to overlay a total of 14.5 miles of Kansas Highway 3 from the Bourbon and Crawford county line north to the east junction of Kansas Highway 39; and K-3 from the junction of Kansas Highway 47 north to the Bourbon and Crawford county line.. ...

Local voters got to know more about candidates for local, state and federal offices during a Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce-sponsored public forum on Tuesday at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center. The race for the 1st District seat on the Bourbon County Commission includes Democrat Clint Walker and three Republicans; Charley Ballou, Lynne Oharah, and Allen Warren...