Stories from Friday, April 4, 2014

On Wednesday at their monthly meeting, Bourbon County Coalition (BCC) attendees learned that general public transportation services provided by Bourbon County Senior Citizens (BCSC) Inc. are in question. Jacqueline Sellers, center director at the BCSC, said she is waiting to hear from the Southeast Kansas Community Action Program about a possible merger between the two groups. The merger would allow the transportation service to continue in the Fort Scott community...

to go with a local provider for the city government's high-speed internet needs. During their Tuesday meeting, Fort Scott City Commissioners heard from Director of Finance Jon Garrison and Information Technology Manager Slayden Davis, who informed commissioners they have recently been discussing high-speed internet options for city purposes and have come to an agreement with Suddenlink, a local provider...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Fort Scott Community College's softball team was swept by Kansas City Kansas here Tuesday afternoon in a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader. Kansas City won the opener 7-3, scoring 6 runs in the bottom of the fourth inning. The Blue Devils took a 13-0 shutout in the second game in five innings...

Fort Scott Community College's baseball team suffered an 11-0 shutout at the hands of No. 14-ranked Crowder, Mo., at Lions Field Tuesday as Roughrider pitcher Sam Hilliard held the Greyhounds to 2 hits in 7 innings of work. Hilliard (1-1) walked just one batter while striking out 16...

Numbers are down for both Fort Scott High School track and field teams this season. Boys head coach Jeff Armstrong said Wednesday that there are only 18 out for his team this season, down from 28 last year. Girls' head coach Tracey Bogina says that she has 23 girls participating, down from 31 last year...

Editor's note: This is the second of a two part series. When Karen Haas, the Lane Collection Curator of Photographs for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, saw a photo of an African American couple standing outside the Liberty Theatre in Fort Scott, she wondered who the couple was and where the photo was taken...

Fort Scott High School's tennis team won their home invitational Tuesday as Tiger players won 9 of 12 matches in a four-team round-robin. The Tigers scored nine team points followed by Nevada with six, Coffeyville five and Pittsburg four. "It was definitely not the toughest competition we will see this year, but this tournament came at a really good time for a team with very little experience," Fort Scott head coach Lynn Barr said. ...

Ina Lucille (Goddard) Wilson, age 86 of Reese, Ohio, passed away on April 2, 2014 from an enlarged heart at Altercare of Canal Winchester, Ohio, where she was loved and cared for by a staff that treated her as family. Born in Nevada, Mo., on April 18, 1927, raised in Richards, Mo., and Fort Scott, Kan., Ina was a child of God. ...

Joseph (Joe) James White, 94, resident of 2191 Ironwood Road, Fort Scott, passed away Thursday, April 03, 2014 at Guest Home Estates. He was born on a farm near Fulton, Kan., on Sept. 11, 1919, the son of James Henry White and Phoebe Dorsey White. He attended grade school in the Fulton area and graduated from Fulton High School in 1937. ...

Fort Scott High's baseball team bounced back from a dismal season-opening 11-0 loss to Nevada on Monday and throttled Girard in both ends of a doubleheader at Ty Cullor Field Thursday evening, 10-0 and 15-2. "I thought we tried to do too much the other night and we didn't tonight," Fort Scott head coach Josh Regan said. ...