Stories from Saturday, October 12, 2013

As work to clean out the Bourbon County Courthouse continues, department heads will be asked to check state statutes to determine how long some documents must be saved. Lora Holdridge, register of deeds, and Shane Walker, information technology, met briefly with Bourbon County Commissioners Friday to provide them with an update on the cleaning project. ...

Fall may not be the time when Harold "Pete" Allen and others are thinking about a garden, but when next spring rolls around, he will be ready. The local resident, who maintains a plant and vegetable garden behind his home at 1248 S. Crawford St., has a system that he is happy with, as he said it saves him money and produces better quality products from his garden...

Marion Anna Elisabeth Bordelon, age 59, a resident of Fort Scott, died Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, at her home. She was born June 18, 1954, in Darmstat, Germany, the daughter of Henry Schmidt and Elisabeth Grab. Marion moved to the United States at the age of twelve and received her United States citizenship. ...

Fred D. Pitts, 86, of Concordia, Mo., formerly of Sweet Springs, Mo., died Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, at The Lutheran Nursing Home in Concordia. Born Aug. 8, 1927 in Hermitage, Mo., he was the son of the late Harry Alexander Pitts and Alpha Helen Bandel Pitts. ...

The list of All-SE-KAN girls' golfers for 2013 has been released. The All-SE-KAN list was created several years ago when the number of girls' golf teams was increasing but none of the area leagues had yet adopted it as a championship sport. The top 10 golfers were named to the First Team while the next five made Honorable Mention. No golfers from Fort Scott or Uniontown made either list this season...

Three Uniontown High School runners took part in the Pleasanton Invitational here Thursday. Johnathan Wheeler finished 31st for the Eagles with a time of 20 minutes, 0.32 seconds over file kilometers. Ryan Goldberg was 56th in 23:09.66 and Dominik Dowhan was 60th in 25:55.22...

The federal government shutdown has forced the Southeast Kansas League to change the site of Thursday's league cross-country championship meet. The meet was originally scheduled to be held at Big Hill Lake near Cherryvale. But due to the fact that the Army Corps of Engineers operates the facility, it is closed until federal funding is restored...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School's volleyball team swept both its matches here Thursday night, setting up a Southeast Kansas League championship showdown at the FSHS gymnasium Tuesday night. The Tigers defeated Osawatomie, 25-9, 25-10, in a non-league match and beat Pittsburg, 25-19, 25-16 in a Southeast Kansas League dual that ended the Purple Dragons' hopes of finishing in a tie for the championship...

UNIONTOWN -- The Uniontown Eagles stormed out of the gate Friday night, never relenting, crushing rival Marmaton Valley, 58-12, in a game that counted in both Three Rivers League and Eight-Man district play. Uniontown racked up 237 yards on the ground, exploiting a soft Wildcats defensive line. ...

ALTAMONT -- Seven players scored Fort Scott High's eight touchdowns here Friday night as the Tigers won their second game in a row, 52-6, over Labette County in Southeast Kansas League play. The Tigers (3-2 SEK, 3-3 overall) didn't wait long to get on the scoreboard. Brendyn Quinney recovered a Labette County fumble at the 7-yard line on the second play of the game and two plays after that, Race Kastl scored on a 4-yard run to make it 7-0 barely a minute and a half into the contest...