Stories from Thursday, January 31, 2013

Mother to Mother Ministry is continuing its important work of ministering to limited income mothers at its new site at 728 Heylman. The organization moved there from the lower level of Memorial Hall downtown. The move last summer to the house that used to be Fort Scott Youth Home Inc. has been good, Mother to Mother Coordinator Wilma Leach said...

A chance encounter with a young German cyclist pedaling across the U.S. last summer has netted the Gordon Parks Museum Center for Culture and Diversity a nice addition to its collection -- a five-volume collection of photography entitled "Gordon Parks Collected Works."...

Efforts to revitalize downtown, which started in August 2012, continue to progress. Sixteen people who are part of the Downtown Action Team met Jan. 29. Their mission is mission statement is to preserve the history of downtown Fort Scott by using retail and residential space and tourism to create a sustainable cultural, retail and culinary experience...

The Downtown Action Team is part of a larger community service organization called Fort Scott Community Visioning, which has been ongoing for several years. "Reta Baker and Mark McCoy are the co-conveners for 2013 of the Steering Committee so they might have a different answer, but from my perspective," co-convenor Lindsay Madison said, "the Steering Committee's purpose is to:...

Fort Scott Community College's women were back within 7 points with 3:28 left in Wednesday night's Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division contest with Independence, having rallied after the Pirates began the second half of play with a 13-0 run. But Independence killed all hopes of a comeback by outscoring Fort Scott 9-1 the rest of the way to take a 56-41 victory...

Fort Scott Community College men's head coach Michael Cook might just have to stick with this plan of starting sophomore Austin Danner rather than bringing him off the bench as a super sub, if only for the possibility that it could be good luck. Danner scored 28 points and made 10 of 15 shots from the field. ...