Stories from Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Robert J. "Bob" Ingram, age 72, resident of Bronson, Kansas, died Sunday, April 3, 2011, at the Via Christi Hospital in Wichita, Kan. He was born March 13, 1939, in Chaplin, Ky., the son of Alvin Clay Ingram and Marjorie Lillian Hahn Ingram. Bob married Ada White on Feb. ...

Mary Wilhelmenia Stewart, age 89, a former resident of Bronson, Kan., went to her heavenly home Monday, April 4, 2011, at the Moran Manor in Moran, Kan. Mary was born May 23, 1921, the daughter of Elizabeth and Edwin Wolf. In her youth, she went to the Dry Ridge School and then to the Bronson High School. ...

Jessica Gibbons and Nathan Barlett and sisters Alysa Barlett and Kamryn Barlett and brother, Skyler Barlett, are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Kyndal Bartlett. She was born at 10:30 p.m. April 1 at Allen County Hospital. She was 7 pounds, 7 ozs. and 18 inches long...

Lindsey Leann Woody, 23, 549 180th St., Fort Scott, was arrested by the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office on April 4 at 11:45 a.m. for driving while suspended, no tag or registration and released the same day at 1:12 p.m.

Novelist Alexander Chee will read from his fiction at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 14, in the Governor's Room of Pittsburg State University's Overman Student Center. The reading is sponsored by the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series and is free and open to the public...

100 YEARS AGO (1911) Humane Society members have noticed that some delivery horses for groceries and meat markets are being driven too fast. They have entered complaint with the owners of the horses. It is suggested that the Humane Society take the matter up by inaugurating a campaign among the women with a view to having them place their orders earlier to give the delivery wagon time to make deliveries without overdriving the horses...

It was an eventful week. There were several bills of interest including a bill that increased the amount of contributions a candidate can receive from individuals, PACs, and businesses. The increase will reduce the effectiveness of grassroots campaigns. I voted no and was disappointed when the bill passed...

To the Editor: What is PRIDE? Have you noticed the gold and brown PRIDE banners flying in downtown Fort Scott? The Fort Scott PRIDE program was started in 1994. The concept of the PRIDE program is Kansas Building Better Communities. This is a self-help program in which communities set their own objectives...

For eight innings Tuesday afternoon, Fort Scott Community College's softball team stood toe-to-toe with the sixth-ranked team in NJCAA Division II. But visiting Highland scored three times in the top of the ninth inning of the opener and went on to win 4-1, then took the second game from the Greyhounds, 9-3, at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex...

Results from the Bourbon County Clerk's Office are unofficial until they are canvassed. Uniontown, USD 235 Incumbent Lynne D. Oharah, Position 1: 227 Tony W. Hanks: 84 (challenger, Position 1) Position 2 incumbent Jason Sutterby, 284 Matthew Simpson, Position 3: 268...

A family, Fit and Fun Night will be held from 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 7 at the Fort Scott High School track, 1005 S. Main. The event is offered to all USD 234 families and will include healthy snacks, games and activities and lots of wellness information. Everything is free, a news release said. In case of bad weather, the event will be held at Fort Scott Middle School, 1105 E. 12th St...

Bourbon County Commissioners will hold meetings with county employees this week. Although a quorum will be present, no action will be taken. A meeting will be held from 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Friday, April 8 at the courthouse. A meeting was held Tuesday morning...

For the first time in about 30 years, there will be more than one woman sitting on the Fort Scott City Commission. With Cindy Bartelsmeyer and Gary Bukowski receiving four-year terms and Jean Parker getting a second two-year term, the Fort Scott City Commission will have more than one woman for the first time since the late 1970s or 1980s, according to Parker who was speaking with Carolyn Sinn, one of the two women on the commission at the time, Tuesday evening...

Some new faces will soon join the USD 234 Board of Education and the Fort Scott Community College Board of Trustees. According to unofficial final results of Tuesday's general election, Michelle Hudiburg, Belynda Davenport and Jordan Witt, all candidates in the highly competitive USD 234 contest, defeated their opponents for positions two, six, and at-large, respectively...

Voters on Tuesday overwhlemingly passed a half-cent sales tax that will fund a new swimming pool and addition to Buck Run Community Center. By a count of 1,185 yes votes to 500 no votes, according to unofficial results, Fort Scott voters approved the sales tax to fund a $3.9 million renovation to the municipal pool and an addition to Buck Run Community Center...