Stories from Saturday, April 11, 2015

Elver J. "Punk" Kellstadt, age 80, of Mound City, Kansas passed away April 9, 2015 at the Prescott Countryview Nursing Home in Prescott, Kan. Funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at the Mound City Christian Church. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. ...

Janet E. Grote, 57, died Wednesday, April 8, 2015. Funeral service will be at 2 p.m., Saturday, April 11, 2015 at Northwest Christian Church. A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, April 13, 2015 at Evergreen Cemetery in Fort Scott, Kan...

Julie A. Townsend, 54, of Fort Scott, passed away Thursday, April 9, 2015 in Joplin, Mo. Funeral arrangements for Julie Townsend are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

William Richard "Dick' Hite, age 88, of Aurora, Mo., passed away at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 8, 2015, at the Cox South Hospital in Springfield, Mo. He was born Jan. 30, 1927, in Ft. Scott, Kans., the son of the late Benjamin William and Hazel Irma (Cox) Hite...

Ona Pearl James, 91, of Girard, Kan., died at 9:20 p.m. Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at Medicalodge of Frontenac in Frontenac, Kan. Mrs. James was born March 11, 1924 at Garland, Kan., the daughter of David Franklin and Flora Shoop Beerbower. Ona was a homemaker and beautician who lived in the Hepler-Girard area most of her life. ...

Bourbon County Commissioners on Friday agreed it would not make sense to begin talking about firm plans for a new jail until after they put their official stamp on the April 7 election results. Commissioners will consider 56 provisional ballots and canvass all the votes at 10 a.m. Monday. The provisional ballots could change the results of some of the races...

The Fort Scott Police Department has some new vehicles and the verdict is, police officers like their new rides. In 2014, the department ordered four Police Interceptors (Ford Explorer sport utility vehicles). The new SUVs, which police said provide several benefits, replaced three Crown Victorias with more than 100,000 miles on them and another vehicle that was involved in an accident in 2013...

ARMA -- Uniontown's softball team split a pair of Three Rivers League games with Northeast here Monday, taking the first game in a squeaker 8-7. The Eagles were just short in the second game, falling 8-5. In the opener, UHS (1-1 TRL, 1-3 overall) got plenty of offense, headlined by Sam Young, with three hits. Kyley Brown also had three hits; and Holly Shinn, Daryan Herring, Katie Coll, and Breanna Hampton had 2 hits each...

PAOLA -- Partly because some athletes were held out to compete in Friday's Gorilla Relays and partly because of the dominance of strong teams, Fort Scott's track teams won only four medals here Thursday. They were all in boys' events. Paola's girls scored 275 team points, nearly 200 more than the runner up. Lamar, Mo., won the boys' side with 147 points. Fort Scott finished eighth with 15...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School's young tennis team struggled in a pool-play tournament at Pittsburg here Thursday. The four entries won only three matches among them, each in fifth-place matches. The first two matches for each Tiger entrant were in pool play. Three of the four fifth-place matches were against Columbus entrants...

PITTSBURG -- Pittsburg made it known that Fort Scott High's baseball team is not the only contender for the Southeast Kansas League title by sweeping a doubleheader from the Tigers at Jaycee Ball Park here Thursday. The Purple Dragons, who now lead the SEK by a half game over Labette County at 3-0, 5-1 overall, took the first game 7-6 in eight innings and the nightcap 6-3...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High's softball squad shut out Pittsburg in both games of a doubleheader here Thursday, running its Southeast Kansas League winning streak to 27 games. The Tigers won the opener 8-0 and the nightcap 18-0. Kyenne Wade (5-2) allowed just 2 hits and 3 walks in the opener while striking out 13 batters. She also drove in 2 runs...

Senior Conner Antonetti is the only returning member of Fort Scott High's golf team with varsity experience. That showed Thursday when he finished fifth in the Tigers' first varsity meet of the season at Independence. The rest of the Tiger roster consists of a junior and eight freshmen, five of who competed at Independence...

HESSTON -- Fort Scott Community College's softball team swept Hesston here Friday, improving their position for the upcoming Region VI-Division II Tournament. The 3-0, 7-1 sweep improves Fort Scott to 8-13 in Region VI seeding and 20-22 overall. Region VI seeding games include all Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division contests and those against independents Hesston and Brown Mackie...

IOLA -- What Fort Scott Community College's baseball would have liked to get this weeknd was a series sweep against Allen. But here on Friday afternoon, the host Red Devils, in last place in the Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division, spolied that plan by taking game one of a doubleheader, 3-2. Fort Scott rebounded for a 12-4 win in game two...