Stories from Thursday, September 12, 2013

On Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013, George Dewey Martin Jr. finished his adventure and labors in this life and returned home for new assignments in our Father's Kingdom. Son of George Dewey Martin and Esther Elizabeth Smith Martin, George was born in Bismarck, N.D., and grew up in northwest Washington. He married Roberta Joan King in 1950 and went on to build his family, living in and around Bellingham, Wash., for 53 years. Early in their marriage they spent two years in Toledo, Ohio...

Alice Rose Daniels, age 78, a former resident of Prescott and Fort Scott, died Tuesday, Sept. 10 at the Golden Living Center in Pittsburg, Kan. She was born Jan. 6, 1935, in Blue Mound, Kan., the daughter of Thomas Hillery Johnson and Mary Evelyn Alcorn Johnson. ...

On the fifth day of the murder trial of Brent Bollinger in the death of his wife Brenna, jurors heard how firefighters found the body of Brenna Bollinger and the conversation a paramedic had with Brent Bollinger after an October 2011 house fire. Brent Bollinger is accused of killing his wife, Brenna, by setting their house on fire on Oct. 13. Bollinger and his then 2-year-old son, Bryson, survived the house fire at 2166 Grand Road. The body of his wife, 23, was found in the fire...

Many spoke, some cried and all remembered Sept.11, 2001 Wednesday at the Remembrance Service at Fort Scott National Historic Site. A large crowd filled the chairs with overflow into the shade of the trees on the Fort's grounds. They came to remember that day, 12 years ago when America was attacked on its own soil. They came to remember those who gave their life in service to our country...

The presentation of further evidence, including photos of badly charred portions of a home that was the site of a deadly 2011 fire, took up a majority of the court's time Wednesday afternoon as a murder and arson trial continued in the Bourbon County Courthouse...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High School's junior varstity tennis team played at the Labette County tournament here Tuesday with one player finishing second in singles and a team placing third in doubles. There was pool play with two matches in each, then a third match to determine places based on the finish in the pools...

The numbers may be few but the potential and attitude more than compensate. That's the message of head coach Sabrina Wilkinson as she discussed her Uniontown cross country team this fall. Wilkinson, in her third year at the helm, has junior Rachel DeMoss, junior Jonathan Wheeler and seniors Ryan Goldberg and Dominik Dowhan on the team. The Eagles didn't lose anyone to graduation, since the squad had no seniors a year ago...

EL DORADO SPRINGS, Mo. -- The Fort Scott Middle School seventh and eighth-grade girls' volleyball teams swept host El Dorado Springs here Tuesday. "Our girls did a great job playing volleyball but also, they did a great job representing Fort Scott while on the road," head coach Kelly Toll said...

Kansas City Kansas came into Wednesday's Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division match ranked 19th in the latest NJCAA Division II volleyball poll. And the Blue Devils showed a lot of why they have national accolades in a 25-16, 25-18, 25-20 sweep of Fort Scott Community College at Arnold Arena Wednesday night...

Family members of the subject of the 13th Lowell Milken Center exhibit, "Ashes on the Moon," were on hand Wednesday to cut the ribbon on the display. Gene Shoemaker is the latest "unsung hero" to be featured at the education center and museum and has ties to Fort Scott through his great niece, Heather Griffith, who is the Fort Scott economic development director...