Stories from Saturday, January 25, 2014

A reception was held Friday for the two Extension Agents who are leaving the Southwind Extension District. Ann Ludlum is retiring and Delta George Pollock has begun a new career with the USD 235 Uniontown school district. The Extension Office located in the Bourbon County Courthouse will remain open with other agents holding office hours...

Some Bourbon County residents will be facing detours as the Kansas Department of Transportation replaces two bridges on K-39 this year. Darrin E. Petrowsky, P.E., area engineer with KDOT, attending Friday's commission meeting to correct a misstatement he'd made during a previous meeting with the county officials in 2013. ...

Bourbon County rural firefighters from multiple departments, Bourbon County Sheriff's Office personnel and emergency medical service personnel responded to a house fire Friday afternoon at 1091 Indian Road. Details on the cause and origin of the fire, as well as the extent of damages, were not available as of press time...

Lester Raymon Gemmill, 82, of Rural Stark, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 at his home. He was born Feb. 18, 1931 near Savonburg, Kan., a son of Thomas Lincoln and Zerepha Mable (Smith) Gemmill. He attended the Stark schools and was a 1949 graduate of Grant Rural High School. ...

Janie Mae Ruble, age 69, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, at Mercy Hospital. She was born Nov. 22, 1944, in Fort Scott, the daughter of Wayne R. and Oleta Kilgore Davidson. She was a graduate of Hume High School, Class of 1962. ...

The Fort Scott National Historic Site will present "The Underground Railroad," a guided reading and discussion activity, at 2 p.m. today in the site's Grand Hall. According to a press release from the FSNHS, "The Underground Railroad" is part of "Shared Stories of the Civil War," which is a "collection of reader's theater scripts created from historical letters, diaries, newspaper articles, and other archival documents from the 1850s and 1860s. ...

To get more players some game experience for both schools, Fort Scott and Pittsburg middle schools played a "C" team doubleheader at the Fort Scott Middle School gym Thursday. The seventh-grade "C" team won 33-28. Dalton Colvin scored 15 poitns for the Tigers. Korbyn Reyes and Aaon Emery each grabbed 6 rebounds...

Eagle boys fall to Central Heights

Fort Scott girls roll to 30-point win over Prairie View