Stories from Friday, March 1, 2013

The Bourbon County Democratic Party is keeping its eye on legislation that is scheduled to move through the Kansas House of Representatives soon. President Geoffrey Clark asked members during the committee's Wednesday night meeting to contact their representatives about bills that will impact historic preservation and how appellate courts judges are chosen and preservation of historic districts...

The story of the Kansas-Missouri border war will be brought to life with a planned performance by the Baker University Speech Choir at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, at the Fort Scott National Historic Site. The performance, titled "Guerilla Warfare: Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers," is part of the Shared Stories of the Civil War script series, a reader's theater project the historic site has been involved with the last few years...

A bill requiring recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and those receiving unemployment payments to undergo drug testing if there is reasonable suspicion they are using illegal substances passed by an overwhelming 31 to 8 vote Thursday by the Kansas Senate...

The Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce members gathered at the Old Fort Genealogical Society of Southeastern Kansas, Inc. for the weekly coffee Thursday. As always, members can tell what is going on in their community, or their lives and the host member gets time about their business/non-profit...

Tammy Helm joined the Fort Scott Tribune as its new editor Feb. 25. A Parsons native and University of Kansas graduate, she grew up in the Kansas City, Kan., area. "I left Kansas 20 years ago and have felt like a displaced Jayhawk for many years. I lived in northern Missouri, crossed the state line into southern Iowa in 2002, then moved to the Ozarks in 200," Helm said...

ARMA -- Uniontown's basketball seasons came to an end at the Northeast Class 2A Sub-State Tournament here Thursday night. Eagle girls lost to Oswego, 59-44, in a first-round match. Uniontown's boys fell to Sedan, 56-50. No further information was available from the boys' game at press time...

The Crawford-Neosho-Cherokee League will be well represented in the girls' semifinals of the Fort Scott Class 4A Sub-State Basketball Tournament tonight as league teams went 3-1 in the quarterfinal round at the FSHS gymnasium Thursday night. One of them had to lose as CNC rivals Baxter Springs and Girard had to face each other with the Trojans emerging victorious, 42-26. ...

Tigers will face No. 7 Columbus tonight in 2nd semifinal game