Stories from Wednesday, October 23, 2013

GARDEN CITY -- Uniontown's golf team finished 10th at the Class 3-2-1A State Tournament at Southwind Country Club here Monday with a score of 462. The Eagles did not have a medalist but did shoot better than they did in their Regional at Fort Scott last week...

NEVADA -- Fort Scott Community College's volleyball team won its fifth straight match here Monday night and moved over the .500 mark for just the second time this season at 17-16. Fort Scott took the match 25-18, 25-22, 16-25, 25-18 from Cottey College (5-12) in non-conference, non-district play. Three Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division games remain in the regular season as the Greyhounds try to become one of the eight teams that advance to post-season play in Region VI Division II...

As another season of the Fort Scott Farmers' Market winds down, some vendors reflected on the ups and downs of the past several months. Local vendor Ronnie Brown, who has been involved with the market the last 11 to 12 years, said he thought the season was fairly "average" as far as customer turnout...

Former Kansas Senator Bob Marshall questioned the Fort Scott Community College Board of Trustees about whether they were aware the college might spend more than a million dollars to be included in an educational facility in Crawford County. He spoke during the trustees' regular meeting Monday night about a proposed technical education center, a 120,000 square-foot building that will be built in the industrial park near the airport in Crawford County. ...

Class rings are something that many teenagers treasure and plan to have as lifelong keepsakes from their youth. While the intention is good, things happen and for one reason or another, the ring gets lost. That's the story of Henry James McKinley III's class ring--but it's only the beginning of the story...

Kathy Elaine Martin, 59, of Fort Scott, Kan., died on the morning of Oct. 21, 2013. She was born May 27, 1954 in Springfield, Mo., to Charles F. Ford and Edna Mae Ford. She was a member of the Fort Scott High School class of 1972. She married Kirby Martin on Feb. ...