Stories from Tuesday, December 23, 2014

On Monday, the Bourbon County Commissioners are expected to finalize a purchase of county property along U.S. 69 between U.S. 54 and Native Road. While the commissioners have discussed the transaction in the past several commission meetings, they have not discussed what plans Wall Street Properties has for the 23.8 acres, which at one time was the site of the Fort Scott Hydraulic Cement Quarry and then the county dump...

Health officials are investigating a new virus that has been linked to the death of a Bourbon County resident this summer. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is working closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate the new virus...

Michael Richardson of Fort Scott spends about two weeks working to put up his Christmas Dickens' Village in preparation for his grandkids coming at Thanksgiving. He doesn't do the village every year, more like every three years. "It's quite a process," Richardson said. "So I don't try to do it every year. Usually just every three years, never two years in a row."...

Helen J. Young, age 93, a former resident of Fort Scott, and more recently of Owasso, Okla., died Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014, at the Evergreen Care Center in Owasso. She was born Feb. 1, 1921, in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Lou Hereford and Bessie Hartman Hereford. ...