Stories from Thursday, October 17, 2013

The Fort Scott community comes together each year to support the Beacon with a soup/dessert event. This year, the Beacon Benefit Soup Line is from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25 at the Scottish Rite Temple, 110 S. Main St. The Beacon is an interfaith, not-for-profit network helping Bourbon County residents with food, shelter and clothing or other necessities during times of need or an emergency. ...

Despite enrollment decreasing at many community colleges across the state, overall enrollment numbers are up 3.3 percent at Fort Scott Community College since last year. The total number of enrolled student hours has increased by 803, from 24,193 to 24,996, according to a comparative hours report released Sept. 30 by FSCC...

The Fort Scott City Commission approved supporting a project to help update the mapping system for Bourbon County during the commission's regular meeting Tuesday evening. Fort Scott Fire Chief Paul Ballou and Shane Walker, Geographic Information Systems director for the county, attended the meeting to request an update to the current 911 mapping system, as many changes have occurred since the system was last updated in 2011...

Cast members of the Fort Scott Community College fall production of "Godspell" conducted their final dress rehearsal Wednesday night at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center. The musical is directed by FSCC Theatre Instructor Sarah Mae Blew and includes 18 cast members from the college and community...

Vernon Dean Woodward, age 77, resident of Bronson, Kan., died Tuesday, Oct. 15, at the Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita, Kan. He was born April 22, 1936, in Newton, Kan., the son of Benjamin Franklin Woodward and Susie Koehn Woodward. He graduated from Bronson High School. ...

Charles Lee Magee (Service location change). Pastor Dan Pempin will conduct funeral services at 10 a.m. Thursday at the First Baptist Church. The Eulogy will be given by Sam Mason. Burial will follow in U.S. National Cemetery with Military Honors conducted by the Olson Frary Burkhart Post No. ...

The Uniontown Junior High volleyball teams played at home the last two Thursdays. Results have arrived just recently for those matches. On October 3, UJH faced Crest. The seventh-grade team won 25-13, 25-5 and the eighth graders won 25-12, 25-15. On October 10, the Eagles played Pleasanton. The seventh grade won 25-23, 25-15. The eighth grade won 22-25, 25-18, 16-14...

PITTSBURG -- The Fort Scott Middle School volleyball team finished its season at a tournament here Saturday. The Tiger "A" team finished in third place and concluded the year with a record of 6-8. Fort Scott defeated Lamar, Mo. (25-21, 25-17), Parsons (25-20, 18-25, 15-9), and Nevada (25-17, 25-10). The Tigers lost to Pittsburg (30-28, 25-13) and Joplin (25-22, 25-14)...

At some point Wednesday night, Fort Scott Community College's volleyball apparently decided it had enough of this nonsense of Independence sticking around and being competitive. After two relatively close sets, the Greyhounds got on some long rolls in the third set and -- perhaps also aided by the Pirates' confusion over its own rotation -- dominated. ...