Stories from Friday, August 15, 2014

Two area volleyball teams have earned American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Awards for the 2013-14 school year. Fort Scott Community College, coached by Lindsay Hill, earned a spot on the junior-college list for the third consecutive year. Uniontown High School, coached by Jackie Hall, was honored as one of 225 girls' high-school teams across the nation to receive the honor...

Fort Scott Community College will honor the 1972 NJCAA National Runner-Up Football team as the newest members of the FSCC Athletic Hall of Fame with an induction ceremony and breakfast on Oct. 11. The 1972 team finished the regular season with a perfect 10-0 record, qualifying them to play for the National Championship. ...

PITTSBURG --Three Rivers League eight-man football coaches feel Chetopa and Uniontown will repeat their 1-2 finish at the top of the standings from last season. The prediction was revealed here Wednesday in a pre-season media conference hosted by KSHQ Radio (100.7 FM)...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School's football team was picked to with defending Class 4A State runner-up Coffeyville to finish in a tie for third place in the Southeast Kansas League football race in a coaches poll released here Wednesday at a conference hosted by KSHQ Radio (100.7 FM)...

Kellen Geneva, 25, is the new director of the Keyhole Center, a youth organization located at 1002 S. Main. She assumed the position Aug. 1. Geneva started at the center as a substitute in September 2013. "Over time I began to get to know the kids and enjoyed going to work," she said. "When the position opened, I sent in my resume and was then accepted and became director Aug. 1."...

mmunity College budget was approved Monday night with a slight decrease in the mill levy. The approval came with a 4-0 vote from the FSCC Board of Trustees. Voting via teleconferencing was trustee John Kerr. Trustee John Bartelsmeyer was not present...

A recently released document from Fort Scott Community College officials sheds a little more light on the agreement ending Clayton Tatro's employment as college president. However, much of the document has been redacted. On July 28, FSCC Board of Trustees voted to accept the agreement to end Tatro's employment and then Board Chairman Robert Nelson announced that no details would be made public and officials would not confirm or deny that Tatro had resigned...

Fort Scott Police Department Capt. Shaun West, left, and FSPD Chief Travis Shelton chat while preparing for blood donation Thursday during the annual Battle of the Badges Blood Drive for the American Red Cross at Buck Run Community Center. The event pits local law enforcement agencies against local fire departments in a friendly competition to see who can donate the most blood...

Kathy Marie Rossman Perry, age 60, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., went to be with the Lord on Aug. 13, 2014, at her home. She was born Nov. 20, 1953, in Baxter Springs, Kan., the daughter of LeRoy and Betty Freeman Rossman. She married Karl Perry on April 16, 2005. Kathy loved to dance and spend time with her family and friends. She was a great person, loved by many, who will be greatly missed...

Sandra Pauline Spencer McReynolds Greenwood, age 71, of Chetopa, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 13. Services for Sandra Greenwood will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014, at the Chetopa Baptist Church. Private interment will be at Harvey Cemetery, Carthage, Mo. ...

Raymond Roy Hueston, 85, of Mapleton, Kan., died at 4:40 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014 at Olathe Medical Center. Raymond was born Feb. 23, 1929 in Arcadia, Kan., to Thomas "Mac" and Nellie (Mitchell) Hueston. He graduated from Arcadia High School and Fort Scott Community College...