Stories from Thursday, July 22, 2010

David Prickett, a musician from Deerfield, Mo., will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at the Heritage Park Pavilion located near the corner of First and Main streets. Prickett, a native of Alabama, plays a variety of musical styles, including old-time rock and roll, country and bluegrass from the 1950s, 60s and 70s. ...

TOPEKA -- Today Attorney General Steve Six warned Kansas political campaign committees that federal law requires all telephone calls using pre-recorded messages to identify who is initiating the call and include a telephone number to reach them. "As the primary election day draws near, voters will receive an increasing number of political robo-calls," Six said. ...

PITTSBURG -- Pittsburg State University will be the location for this summer's Kansas Masonic Foundation Shrine Bowl next weekend, an event that will bring more than 200 high school musicians from across the state to perform in the 2010 Kansas Masonic All-Star Band...

Land and property issues that affected Fort Scott during the mid-1800s will be the focus of an evening tour on Saturday at Fort Scott National Historic Site. During the one-hour tour, titled "For What it's Worth," tour-goers will be able to find out more about struggles over land and property in Fort Scott from 1842 to 1873. Local volunteers will reenact four different scenes in which soldiers or civilians at Fort Scott were involved in land issues...

A recent incident could leave many local golfers unhappy as the Fort Scott Golf Course has been forced to temporarily close its back nine holes to repair greens that were vandalized. Between 8 p.m. Tuesday and 8 a.m. Wednesday, vandals used a vehicle of some kind to cause upwards of $60,000 worth of damage to the greens on the 5th, 14th, and 15th holes, according to Fort Scott Golf Course owner Pat Carney. Carney said the damage is estimated at $10,000-$20,000 for each of the three greens...

Rebecca Ann "Becky" Dillon, 59, died at 9:41 a.m. on Sunday, July 18, 2010, in the Jane Phillips Medical Center. Rebecca was born Oct. 22, 1950, at Fort Scott, Kan.;, to parents William C. "Bill" and Elizabeth S. (Shannon) Doenges. She was raised in Bartlesville and completed her education in Fort Scott, Kan., and Bartlesville, Okla. Becky attended Fort Scott Christian School where she graduated high school in 1968...

Delmer Jesse Cox, age 28 of Blue Mound, Kan., died Wednesday July, 21, 2010 at his home. Graveside funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Friday July 23, 2010 at the Curry Cemetery near Mound City, Kan. The family suggests contributions to the Kansas High School Rodeo Association in care of Coffel-Schneider, P.O. Box J, Mound City, Kansas, 66056...

Often times when we think of garden problems we automatically think of insects or diseases that cause us issues every year. Sometimes it's actually the lack of insects that cause us grief. If you have vegetables that are blooming but not setting fruit, you may have a problem with flower pollination. There are several possible reasons for this that usually vary by species...

Now that summer is definitely here, the time has come for completing the payment process for one of the new farm disaster programs established by the last farm bill. On July 8, 2009 (beginning at 3:30 p.m. I was recently reminded) the Bronson area was hit by a severe hail/wind/rain storm. Crops and other vegetation in the hardest hit areas were pretty well beat to the ground...

Fort Scott High School girls' basketball coaches and players will conduct a camp next week at Buck Run Community Center, 735 Scott Ave. The camp begins Monday and run through Friday. Camp for players in grades 2-5 will be held from 1 to 2:30 p.m. each day with camp for grades 6-8 from 2:30 to 4 p.m...

TOPEKA -- Under a new law that took effect July 1, 2010, victims of child pornography are now able to seek justice through the Kansas Attorney General's Office. As part of the ongoing campaign against the crime of child pornography, Attorney General Steve Six and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are seeking the media's assistance in publicizing this new law and ensuring justice for the victims of convicted sexual predators...

TOPEKA -- Attorney General Steve Six announced Wednesday that Belinda L. Schooley, age 30, plead guilty in Cherokee County today to one count of aggravated arson. Schooley will be sentenced on at 3 p.m. Aug. 20. Schooley was arrested last January and charged for the January, 2005 fire at Video Mart, located at 201 East Maple St. ...

The future of the U.S. Highway 69 corridor will soon be here. U.S. Hwy. 69 Association executive committee member Dean Mann attended Tuesday's Fort Scott City Commission meeting to discus two high priority projects, as defined in the U.S. Hwy. 69 Corridor Study, are nearly ready to begin. He said improvements to the intersection of U.S. Hwy. 69 and South National Avenue as well as the intersection of U.S. Hwy. 69 and 23rd Street are set to begin the design engineering process...