Stories from Saturday, April 12, 2014

Kathleen W. (Ford) Callen, 91, passed away Thursday, April 10, 2014. She was born June 5, 1922, in Copan, Okla., the daughter of Claude Ford and Mary (Perry) Ford Stoner. Her stepfather was Carl Stoner. Kay married D.R. "Bob" Callen in Miami, Okla. Since Bob was employed by SW Bell, they were transferred to many locations in Kansas. ...

Shirley Ann Hickman, 78, of Pittsburg, passed away at 12:45 a.m. Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at Via Christi Village, Pittsburg, Kan. She was born May 11, 1935 at Girard, Kan., the daughter of Vern and Olive (Ensch) Thomas. She graduated from St. Mary's High School...

A Nevada, Mo., teenager was injured when she was ejected from the vehicle she was driving Thursday evening in Bourbon County. The accident occurred at about 6:30 p.m. in the area of 255th Street and Poplar Road. According to a report from the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office, the 16-year-old driver was traveling north on 255th Street when the 2000 Grand Am she was driving began to slide. ...

Fort Scott took the first of likely several steps toward a plan for more broadband internet access during a launch meeting Friday at City Hall. A group of about a dozen city and county officials, local businesspeople and representatives of different aspects of the community met regarding Fort Scott recently being chosen as a pilot community for an action plan for the statewide broadband initiative...

Bourbon County Commissioners on Friday agreed to solicit bids for the harvest of walnut trees located at the Bourbon County Landfill. Dale Bollinger approached the commissioners Monday about logging the trees. Commissioners said they would need to get bids for the trees and asked Bollinger to mark them. ...

Employees of Wilson Home Restoration of Pleasant Hill, Mo., finish replacing the Western Blockhouse roof with wood cedar shingles Friday afternoon. The roof was damaged during the April 2013 hailstorm. Fort Scott resident Gene Duvall said the Civil War era building was constructed in 1863. ...

OSWEGO -- Uniontown's boys finished in third place here Tuesday as the Eagles opened track season at the Oswego Invitational. Uniontown scored 93 team points. That put them behind only champion Fairland, Okla., which had 110 points, and runner-up Oswego, which had 97. The Eagles won 18 medals...

PAOLA -- Fort Scott High School did not bring a full contingent here Thursday for the Paola Invitational as some individuals were held out so they could compete in the Pittsburg State Relays on Friday. Cassidy Westhoff claimed two distance wins for Tiger girls as she took the 1,600 in a time of 5 minutes, 35.12 seconds, which was about 7 seconds better than the runner-up, and the 3,200 in 11:52.41, which won by around eight seconds...

Fort Scott Community College head baseball coach John Hill has announced the signing of 17 student-athletes for 2014-15. "We are very excited about next year's incoming class," Hill said in a recent press release. "Coach Jared Walters, our recruiting coordinator, has done an excellent job of traveling all over the country to find the best players possible that fit our program, school, and community. ...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High's tennis team took part in a six-team tournament here Thursday evening but came away with only one win for each of its four entries. The Tigers finished fifth as Labette County won a tie-breaker. Pittsburg won the team title with Bishop Miege second. The format of the tournament did not have all the entrants play each other, so some of Fort Scott's entrants did not play Pittsburg...

INDEPENDENCE -- Fort Scott High School's golf team started finished third at the Independence Invitational Thursday with two golfers in the top 10. This was the first of four Southeast Kansas League designated tournaments, but Tigers were also competing against three non-league schools in the 10-team field. So where league teams and individuals places doesn't necessarily match where they are in the SEK at the moment...

Fort Scott High's baseball team extended its winning streak to six games by sweeping Pittsburg in their Southeast Kansas League-opening doubleheader at Lions Field Thursday evening. The Tigers got by the Purple Dragons in the opener, 5-3, and then claimed the second game 11-1...

Fort Scott Community College's softball team has been playing more competitively as of late. But that couldn't prevent a doubleheader sweep by Hesston Friday afternoon at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex in Region VI Division II seeding games. Hesston (11-15 Region, 12-18 overall) won the opener 7-1, scoring 5 runs over the final three innings. The Larks took the second game 4-2...