Stories from Monday, October 25, 2010

The Fort Scott Community College Construction Trades Program celebrated National Careers in Construction Week with a variety of events last week. National Careers in Construction Week was created to raise awareness and recognize the profession. In cooperation with six area middle schools, Crossland Construction and Midwest Contractors Inc., FSCC hosted eighth-grade students in Fort Scott and Pittsburg. Students were able to explore opportunities in construction and learn about craftsmanship...

Mercy Health Center will host a forum titled "Health Care Reform and You" from 5 p.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday in the McAuley Conference Center. Karen Endicott-Coyan, Mercy's regional director of revenue management and reimbursement, will lead the discussion...

The Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce is looking to help grow a local long-standing Halloween tradition. The "Trick or Treat on Main Street" event, scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday at the Fort Scott Farmer's Market on Skubitz Plaza and sponsored by the chamber and the Fort Scott PRIDE organization, will include the traditional Halloween parade sponsored by PRIDE and other new activities that organizers have added this year as they seek to create a larger community event...

Tribune Staff Report Halloween is supposed to be a spooky night, but parents don't have to be scared about their kids' safety if they follow some simple safety tips from the Safe Kids Kansas organization. According to the organization, over a recent five-year period, on average, twice as many child pedestrians have been killed on Halloween as have been killed on average throughout the rest of the year. ...

By Ruth Campbell The Fort Scott Tribune Richard M. Smith, chief judge of the 6th Judicial District, will sit with the state Supreme Court in Topeka today to hear appeals in four matters on the docket. The Supreme Court appointed Smith to join them for one day in place of Chief Justice Robert E. ...

The trial of a Fort Scott man facing charges from a 2008 sexual child abuse case began Monday in Bourbon County District Court. Douglas Page has been charged with one count of child abuse, one count of aggravated criminal sodomy, one count of aiding and abetting aggravated criminal sodomy, and one count of promoting obscenity to a minor in relation to an incident involving a 3-year-old relative in September 2008...

Independence upset No. 8-ranked Coffeyville, 14-10, at Independence Saturday night and made the Region VI Playoff picture a bit more complicated for the teams fighting to finish fourth and may have eliminated Fort Scott. Independence improved to 3-3 in the Jayhawk Conference (3-5 overall). ...

GARNETT -- Fort Scott High School's cross country season came to an end here Saturday at the Anderson County Class 4A Regional Meet. Robert Sellers was the high finisher for the Tigers, turning in a time of 19:02 to finish 23rd in tbe boys' 5-kilometer race. Keenan Gregory was 25th in 19:19. Also for Fort Scott, Tyler Endicott ran a 21:40, Kyle Altic a 22:24 and Skyler Cruse a 22:28...

MOUND CITY -- Pleasanton's Savannah Smith and Jayhawk-Linn's Lane Harris will be going to their respective State Cross Country meets this Saturday after qualifying from Regionals held at Sugar Valley Golf Course here Saturday. Smith finished in seventh place in the Pleasanton Class 1A Meet's girls' race, going 4 kilometers in 17 minutes, 49.74 seconds, to qualify as one of the at-large runners...

WICHITA -- Fort Scott Community College's women's basketball team was picked to finish in fifth place in the Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division in a pre-season coaches poll released here Monday. The Greyhounds, who will begin their second season under head coach Diana Couch with a home game against Crowder College next Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at Arnold Arena, finished in seventh place last season and had an overall record of 14-18...

ST. PAUL -- Pleasanton's volleyball squad reached the semifinal round of the St. Paul Class 1A-Division I Sub-State Tournament here Saturday and finished the season with a record of 13-22. The Blu-Jays opened with a 27-25, 25-11 sweep of Three Rivers League rival Crest. Megan Lowe had 9 kills in the match for Pleasanton. Johnnea Saulsberry handed out 6 assists...

ARMA -- The anticipated Uniontown-Northeast final never took place in the Northeast Class 3A Sub-State Volleyball Tournament here Saturday. Third-seeded Southeast wrecked Northeast's plans with a 3-set win in the semifinals and then thwarted Uniontown's State Tournament aspirations with a 3-set win in the championship match...

LOUISBURG -- Fort Scott High School's volleyball team saw its season come to an end when fourth-seeded Paola upset the top-seeded Tigers 2 games to 1 in the semifinals of the Louisburg Class 4A Sub-State Saturday afternoon. The Tigers (25-13) began play with a 25-10, 25-20 sweep of winless Prairie View (0-32). Paola (17-18) took the semifinal, 25-22, 25-27, 25-14 before going on to fall to third-seeded Louisburg in the finals, 25-17, 25-17...