Stories from Thursday, January 29, 2015

Donald Lee Spainhoward, age 77, resident of Humboldt, Kan., previously of Uniontown, Kan., died Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, at the Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute, Kan. He was born Jan. 2, 1938, in Sheldon, Mo., the son of Virgil and Verna Oxford Spainhoward. ...

Russell Eldon Johnson, 72, of Olathe, Kan., passed away Jan. 27, 2015. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, at Woodland Cemetery, Mound City, Kan. Penwell-Gabel Funeral Homes of Olathe is in charge of arrangements.

Hubert A Rhodes, 97, of Fort Scott, died Wednesday evening, Jan. 28, 2015 at the Guest Home Estates. He was born Oct. 15, 1917 in rural Fort Scott, the son of Allen and Stella Pearl (Young) Rhodes. He married Helen Clark Sept. 9, 1945. They divorced and then he later married Lena Zoe Fry Ellerman...

USD 234 and city officials want to get more local youth walking or biking to school. Plans are taking shape that could help with that notion starting this spring. In November, city and USD 234 officials learned the city and school district have been awarded a Safe Routes to School grant through the Kansas Department of Transportation. The aim of the program is to increase the health and safety of youngsters and the community by encouraging children to walk or bike to school...

The deadline to file as a candidate for the April 7 municipal election has come to an end. Terms are expiring in city commissions or councils, school boards, the Fort Scott Community College Board of Trustees and the Southwind Extension District board...

The students at Fort Scott High School are celebrating homecoming this week by dressing up each day with a theme. Wednesday was pajama day at the school, with the theme, "Woke Up This Way." Today there will be a homecoming assembly at 11:29 a.m. The king and queen will be crowned immediately after the varsity girls' basketball game tonight...