Stories from Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Betty Jean Fetterly, age 84, resident of Tulsa, Okla., died Sunday, May 18, 2014, at the University Plaza Nursing Home in Tulsa, Okla. She was born July 30, 1929, in Blue Mound, Kan., the daughter of Edward and Blanche Powell Noggle. She was a graduate of Fulton High School, Fort Scott Community College and Pittsburg State University College of Education. ...

Leonette Christine Hammontree, age 37 of Nevada, Mo., passed away Monday, May 19, 2014 in Nevada. She was born June 8, 1976 to Kenneth Leon, Jr. and Linda Paulette (Sewell) Chesnut and was the light of their lives. On May 10, 1995 she was united in marriage to Joseph William Hammontree and he survives of the home. Together the couple became parents of two children...

Music returns to the downtown area this weekend. The first concert of the season for the Friday Night Concert Series sponsored by the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday at the Heritage Park Pavilion at the corner of First and Main streets...

Second District Commissioner Barbara Albright has volunteered to assist jail and sheriff administrators organize the push for a new jail facility. Sheriff Bill Martin, Undersheriff Ben Cole and Jail Administrator Bobby Reed attended Monday's Bourbon County Commission meeting to find out how to proceed with a new jail project...

The Fort Scott Police Department should get some new rides after approval Tuesday by the Fort Scott City Commission. FSPD Chief Travis Shelton and Tom Coffman, mechanic supervisor for the city, appeared before the commission to discuss the police department's need to purchase four marked patrol vehicles...

John Kellum Jr. is the lone senior graduate at Christian Learning Center. Graduations ceremonies were held Tuesday night. Other graduates are, eighth-graders: Cally Ballou, Johnnie Dreyer, Brett Stark, Tanner Streeter and Kailey Trim; kindergarten: Joshua Lackrone and Easton Rhodes...

INDEPENDENCE -- Senior Jonathan Allen will return to the Kansas Class 4A State Golf Tournament while junior Conner Antonetti will be going there for the first time after both earned at-large qualifying spots from the Independence Class 4A Regional Tournament held here Monday...

WARRENSBURG, Mo. -- Fort Scott native Doug Karleskint, a 1998 graduate of Fort Scott High School, was named the head coach of the University of Central Missouri's men's basketball program on Monday. Karleskint played football, basketball and baseball at Fort Scott High School and also played basketball and baseball at Fort Scott Community College. He also served for a short time as an assistant coach for the FSCC men's basketball program...

CHANUTE -- Chanute won an Independence Class 4A-Division I Regional Baseball Tournament "play-in" game here Tuesday, 8-3, over fifth-seeded Independence and will face top seed Fort Scott High (17-3) in the first semifinal at 2 p.m. Thursday. The Blue Comets (10-11) split a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader with the Tigers last Thursday, winning the second game...

After one inning, it appeared that there was going to be a pitcher's duel in the championship game of the Fort Scott Class 4A-Division I Regional Softball Tournament at Don Hewett Field Tuesday evening. Yeah. Right. Second-seeded Fort Scott (15-7) cranked out 11 hits in the next three innings as the Tigers went on to a 16-0 beatdown of No.1 seed Independence (17-5) in four innings, earning the program's fourth trip to a State Tournament and its first since 2006...