Stories from Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Interested community members partially filled the Fort Scott High School auditorium Tuesday evening to learn about details of the proposed $42.2 million school bond package. Following a 30-minute presentation, Beckham and Jordan Witt, USD 234 Board of Education president, fielded 17 questions or comments from the audience. ...

adway Street will be coming in the near future. After hearing concerns from several residents who live on Broadway, the Fort Scott City Commission on Tuesday approved changes to be made in parking on Broadway to address safety concerns that city officials have fielded in recent years...

First and second graders concentrate on reading in Kelly Love's class Tuesday afternoon at Christian Learning Center. The school's first day of classes was Monday. Other school start dates are: Fort Scott Christian Heights School, Monday, Aug. 25;...

Robert Himes Fursman, age 91, a former resident of Colony, Kan., and more recently of Fort Scott, Kan., died Friday, Aug. 15, 2014, at his home in Fort Scott. He was born May 3, 1923, on the family farm south of Moran, Kan., the son of John Anton Fursman, Sr. ...

The Bourbon County Commissioners on Monday received an updated schedule for this year's asphalt projects. The first eight projects have been completed and the asphalt crew currently is working on 25th Street from U.S. Highway 54 to Native Road and on Native Road from 25th to 45th streets...

Fort Scott Community College's traveled to El Dorado Saturday to take part in a scrimmage hosted by Butler Community College. The Greyhounds faced Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division rival Independence and Western Division squads Butler, Dodge City and Pratt...

Seventy-two athletes, freshmen included, reported Monday for the first day of football practice at Fort Scott High School. Monday was the first day of practice for all fall sports allowed under Kansas State High School Activities Associaton rules. Since school doesn't begin for another week, Tigers head coach Bob Campbell said that there will be more two-a-day practice sessions than there have been in the past few seasons...