Stories from Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Almost all of the 1,350 tickets to a music and comedy show slated for Saturday as part of a local funeral home's 150th anniversary are gone as organizers prepare for the big event. Staff at Cheney Witt Funeral Chapel are bringing in the Rankin Brothers Classic Music Revue from Branson, Mo., to show their appreciation for the continued support of the community over the past 150 years. The show is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. at Memorial Hall, 1 E. Third St...

Dean and Becky Mann are no strangers to the community, having been a part of Fort Scott for more than two decades. Differing in interests, both have worked diligently in their respective causes. They are the recipients of the 2013 Keystone Award through the Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce...

The Fort Scott Area Chamber is sponsoring a promotion this weekend aimed at getting more people to shop local downtown businesses. This particular promotion, scheduled to run Friday, Saturday and Sunday, will focus on businesses in the downtown area that are participating chamber members, FSACC Executive Director Lindsay Madison said...

Fort Scott Community College will be hosting the Annual Key Industries Interscholastic Judging Contest (Aggie Day) competition on Friday, April 5. FSCC's Aggie Day competition is one of the largest and the longest-running agricultural competitions in the area. More than 1,400 students are expected to compete, representing over 100 high schools from the area. Students will compete in 11 events...

Beginning March 25, USD 235, Uniontown, will be under the watchful eye of its first school resource officer, Bourbon County Deputy Logan Probasco of the Bourbon County Sheriff's Department. USD 235 Superintendent Randy Rockhold told the USD 235 Board of Education of the addition of the SRO during its regular monthly meeting on Monday night. ...

New head coach Kristin Schalk is looking to create some luster for the Fort Scott Community College women's softball team. Schalk comes to Fort Scott after spending the 2011 and 2012 seasons as the assistant coach at Ottawa University. During that time, Schalk helped the Braves to the 2011 regular-season Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) championship and produced 17 all-conference performers...

Three members of Fort Scott Community College's men's basketball team received honors from the coaches of the Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division while two men and one woman were voted to places on the All-Region Team by the Region VI Division II coaches...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- Ka'ai Tom's 4 runs batted in helped Fort Scott Community College's baseball team salvage a split with Kansas City Kansas here Tuesday. The games were moved to Missouri Western State University's stadium because the field in Kansas City was unplayable. It was not certain at press time if this would be the venue for today's doubleheader between the same teams...

Four members of Fort Scott High School's girls basketball team and one from the boys' squad received All-Southeast Kansas League honors as the coaches voted on and released the all-league teams Monday night. Girls' league champion Fort Scott and Chanute each had four players picked while Labette County had three and Pittsburg two...