Stories from Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Pauline Elliott, 92, of formerly Fort Scott, died Monday, March 16, 2015 at the Centerpoint Hospital in Independence, Mo. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Dee Burnam, age 90, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Monday, February 16, 2015, at Guest Home Estates. There was cremation. A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 21, at the Carriage House, 301 S. Main St. A potluck lunch will follow. Services provided by Cheney Witt Chapel...

Uniontown City Council members met Monday evening with the town's water supplier during a special meeting to discuss water safety in the town. Rick McDaniels, manager with Consolidated Rural Water District No. 2 (CRWD No. 2), Hubert Thomas, board chair of CRWD No. 2 and Steve Porzio, manager with Public Wholesale Water Supply District No. 13 in Linn County, appeared before the council to field questions on the town's water supply...

This is the final report in a three-part series on sexual abuse. NO MORE Week was March 8-14. It's a national effort to engage every individual, organization, or corporation to say NO MORE to domestic violence and sexual assault and to make domestic violence and sexual assault awareness and prevention a priority year-round...

The start of spring usually brings with it the start of another season of fighting grass fires for area rural fire departments. Dry, windy conditions of late have led to a rash of grass fires that started as controlled burns by property owners to burn sections of grassland or pasture land and then got out of control, burning additional acres and sometimes structures and other property. ...

Fort Scott Community College's baseball team broke out of a slump impressively Tuesday, sweeping the Baker University junior varsity 19-0 and 11-1. Neither game went past the fifth inning. The Greyhounds (7-14) posted their first sweep since the opening doubleheader of the season versus Cloud County. They came into Tuesday's play with losses in eight of their last nine outings...

Three members of Fort Scott High School's boys' basketball team were honored with All-Southeast Kansas League status in a vote conducted recently by league coaches. The teams are picked prior to the post-season but are held until all SEK teams have completed post-season play...