Stories from Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Mary Virginia Corporon Shead, 95, took her journey to heaven on Sept. 14, 2014. Surrounded by family members and friends, Mary Virginia (also known as Mimi) spent her final hours on Sunday at the Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott. The day before she had watched the Old Settler's Parade in Arcadia. ...

Bourbon County Commissioners are hoping to establish a better schedule for holding tax sales. On Monday, they met with Bourbon County Treasurer Rhonda Dunn and attorney Dan Meara, who assists the county with the sales. Meara is hoping a sale can be held in October. He said the notice of sheriff's sale will be published soon and the sale can be held at least 30 days after the first date of publication. He said that would put the sale at mid to late October...

Mark McCoy, president of Fort Scott Community College, did a little bragging Monday evening at the monthly board of trustees meeting. "After looking at 700 community colleges in order to find the best of the best, FSCC got ninth place." McCoy said. "When you do the job you are asked to do, that the community asks you to do...these are wonderful results."...

Citing the need for further expansion, Lowell Milken Center officials are looking to construct a new building designed to house the center's growing number of exhibits. On Tuesday, the Fort Scott City Commission heard from representatives of the center regarding their plans to construct a new 6,000-square-foot exhibit hall on a plot of land in the grassy area at Wall and Main streets, directly across from where the center is located at 4 S. ...

INDEPENDENCE -- Brady Gire scored the first goal of the season for Fort Scott High School's soccer team but it came in the 74th minute of a 9-1 loss to Independence in Southeast Kansas League play here Monday. The Tigers (0-2 SEK, 0-4 overall), who have been outscored 29-1 this season, played at Riverton Tuesday...

Fort Scott High's junior varsity tennis team hosted its second tournament of the season Monday and got to use all nine of its players when Iola was unable to show. The coaches put together a "combo" team to take Iola's place, which had two entries from Fort Scott and two from Chanute...

The Fort Scott Middle School girls' volleyball teams played at home against Nevada Middle School Monday evening. FSMS won three of four, losing only the seventh-grade B team outing, with Nevada taking both sets, 26-24, 26-24. That was the first loss of the season in four matches for the 7B's...

PARSONS -- Coffeyville's Anna Pool and Labette County's team continued to make their charge toward Southeast Kansas League titles at the second league designated tournament here Monday. Fort Scott finished fifth as a team and fourth among the SEK schools. Uniontown, most often the smallest school at a tournament, took seventh place...