Stories from Thursday, December 12, 2013

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott Middle School's seventh-grade basketball teams swept their games against Pittsburg here Tuesday night. The seventh-grade "B" team took an 11-10 win over the Purple Dragons as Brooklyn Sheehy led the Tigers with 6 points. Their record for this season is 4-1...

HUMBOLDT -- Uniontown's girls evened their record at 1-1 on the young season as the Eagles defeated host Humboldt in the first round of the Cubs' season-opening round-robin tournament here Tuesday night. Humboldt's boys, ranked No. 4 in Class 3A by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association, dropped the Eagle boys to 1-1 with a 61-52 decision...

Labette's full-court press caused problems for Fort Scott Community College's women in the first half of play at Arnold Arena Wednesday night. The Greyhounds got that issue straightened out and got their own defense going in the second half, but then the offense was unable to get going...

Thousands of meals have been served to community members since the inception of a faith-based initiative offered by the First United Methodist Church since May 2011. Jean Tucker, coordinator of Feeding Families in His Name, said after Wednesday night, 20,300 meals will have been served to the public since the volunteer-driven free meal program began...

The Uniontown City Council during its Tuesday meeting had to take another look its upcoming water project after a bid for the work came in $120,000 more than expected. The council awarded the bid for the project to Lathrop Construction of Nevada, Mo., which provided the lowest bid of $898,987.50...

As part of a Kansas Reading Roadmap initiative started by Kansas Governor Sam Brownback to improve reading achievement in the state, Uniontown USD 235 is embarking on several new programs next month. "This is the Governor's office attempt to start in Southeast Kansas, identify 20 schools and improve reading scores...targeting first graders," Tracy Smith, West Bourbon Elementary School principal said during Monday's USD 235 Board of Education meeting...

Nightly visitors to downtown Fort Scott will see this lighted "Seasons Greetings" sign, which hangs over Main Street between First and Second streets.