Stories from Tuesday, October 30, 2012

EMPORIA -- Uniontown's volleyball team won one of its three matches at the Class 2A State Tournament here Friday and did not advance on to the semifinals. However, the Eagles did win their final match of pool play to finish the season with 30 victories in 41 matches...

Fort Scott Community College pulled out all the stops and invented some of its own during its final game of the season at Frary Field Saturday afternoon. Out of the playoff picture and without enough victories to go to a bowl game, Greyhound head coach Curtis Horton and his staff decided to throw in some wrinkles. And they began with the second offensive play of the day as Fort Scott (4-5) routed Arkansas Baptist College, 51-32...

Fort Scott High School junior Katren Rienbolt only took up cross country last year but finished third at the Class 4A State Championship Meet in Wamego in her first year of competition. On the same course Saturday, Rienbolt became the third Fort Scott State champion -- the first girl to accomplish the feat -- as she ran a personal-record time of 14:50.20 in winning the meet by nearly 40 seconds...

Editor's Note: This is part of a series of candidate profiles based on answers to a questionnaire sent out by the Tribune. ----- Incumbent House Rep. Bob Grant, D-Frontenac, was born in Clovis, N.M., and moved to Cherokee at age 1. Grant is running for the second district House spot. He will square off against Republican Jeff Locke, R-Arma, in the Nov. 6 election...

Editor's Note: This is part of a series of candidate profiles based on answers to a questionnaire sent out by the Tribune. ----- Gene Garman of Pittsburg is the Democrat running for the District 13 Senate seat against Republican Jake LaTurner. Garman, who works nights for the Pittsburg school district, USD 250, and days for the city parks department, says it's time to address poverty in Southeast Kansas...

Aiden Koppa, 4, hugged his new dog "Baby," as Bob Hoffman, of Lee's Paws and Claws looked on with mixed emotions. On one hand, he was happy to see Baby find a permanent home and a space open up for another animal, but "Baby" after all, was his favorite animal at the shelter. The two had become close in the dog's time at the shelter, but her adoption means another animal's life might be saved...

The Beacon received a sizable boost Monday toward its effort to continue feeding Bourbon County families in need of assistance. During a presentation Monday morning at Walmart Supercenter, 2500 S. Main, The Beacon, Inc., a local food pantry and community assistance agency, received a $50,000 contribution from the Walmart Foundation to assist with providing fresh fruits and vegetables in the sacks of food distributed to families and individuals in need...

Several hundred people turned out for the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce's Candidate Forum on Monday night at Fort Scott Community College's Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Building, which included candidates from the U.S. House race for District 2, the Kansas Senate, the Kansas House, and Bourbon County races for clerk, treasurer, register of deeds, attorney and sheriff...