Stories from Saturday, February 1, 2014

Bourbon County Sheriff Bill Martin is on a mission to get information about the safety and efficiency issues of the current jail, built in 1977, to the public. A panel of Bourbon County public safety employees, along with a representative from Goldberg Group Architects, PC of St. Joseph, Mo., spoke to a group of approximately 20 concerned citizens about construction of a proposed new jail Thursday evening at Uniontown High School...

The push to build a technical education center in Bourbon County is officially heating up. The topic of technical education centers in Bourbon and Crawford counties was addressed during Monday night's Fort Scott Community College Board of Trustees regular monthly meeting. ...

These days, more and more entities are looking for faster internet speeds. This issue, along with the topics of challenges and barriers faced in bringing broadband internet speeds to rural communities like Fort Scott, discussion of experiences and key issues were broached during a Broadband Speed Improvement meeting Friday morning in the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center at Fort Scott Community College...

Yvette Denise Prinkey-Dunbar, age 57, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, at the Mercy Hospital Emergency Room. She was born Oct. 27, 1956, at Mt. Pleasant, Pa. Yvette received her BA degree in chemistry and also was a registered nurse. ...

Rosanna R. Broughton, age 92, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., formerly of Bronson, Kan., died Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, at Medicalodge of Fort Scott. She was born Feb. 2, 1921, in Otterville County, Minn., the daughter of Fred and Nettie Schantz Sandon. She graduated from Hewitt High School in Minnesota. ...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott Middle School's eighth-grade basketball teams swept Parsons here Thursday evening. The eighth-grade "A" team defeated the Vikings, 40-14. The Tigers (5-1) led 9-3 after one period and 23-8 at the half. Gunnar Brown and Jessie Lawrence scored 9 points each while Jesse Jones scored 8 points and had 7 rebounds. Brown, Andrew Callahan and Colby Page had 6 rebounds each...

FRONTENAC -- A wrestling dual came down to the final match here Thursday night as Fort Scott High prevailed over Frontenac 36-33. Charles Pytlowany's hand was raised without having to wrestle the 285-pound match, giving the Tigers (6-4) the win in the match. However, it may have been Chance Crawford's ability to fight off a pin in the previous match at 220 that helped Fort Scott win, even though he lost to Kyle Loy by a 3-1 score...

Not wanting to take a chance with icy conditions forecast for Friday and Saturday, several school districts in Southeast Kansas called things off before the precipitation even began to fall. Fort Scott High School's basketball games at Iola were postponed Friday afternoon. Later in the day, FSHS Athletic Director Larry Fink sent notice that those games will be made up Feb. 17, which is a Monday...