Stories from Friday, April 24, 2015

e Fort Scott National Historic Site (FFSNHS) and guests attended the fifth annual Friends Fest April 21 at the Liberty Theater. Honored during the event was Kansas artist Gary Hawk of Iola. Betty Boyko, superintendent of Fort Scott National Historic Site, thanked Hawk for his contributions to the fort...

Winfield Scott teacher Linda Rogers helps students in her second grade class look through bags of trash they collected on the school grounds in observance of Earth Day on Wednesday. During the project, students with plastic bags broke into groups and then reported back to Rogers with their findings...

Some discussion by city leaders during Tuesday's Fort Scott City Commission meeting centered around the condition of road signs at entrances into Fort Scott and the ongoing issue of train noise. Commissioners and city officials discussed entrance signs and funding for other Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce projects. ...

UNIONTOWN -- Uniontown softball hosted Oswego here Wednesday in a Three Rivers League make-up doubleheader. However, the visitors prevailed 4-1 in the opener and 15-0 in the second game. Taylor Cooper had 2 hits for the Eagles (3-3 TRL, 3-5 overall) in the opener. Kyley Brown pitched all 7 innings, allowing 10 hits...

BURLINGTON -- Uniontown's track team competed in the Waverly meet here Tuesday, a large meet with 18 teams. "This was a large, tough, competitive meet for us," Uniontown head coach Jackie Hall said. "It was a great day for our athletes to compete."...

The City of Fort Scott and the local chapter of the Modern Woodmen of America will co-host a fundraising tournament for the new clubhouse at Woodland Hills Golf Course on May 2. This will be an 18-hole tournament with a two-person scramble division and a co-ed division. Registration will take place at noon with play to begin at 1 p.m. The fee is $50 per player...

Fort Scott Community College's softball team concluded the regular season Tuesday with an 11-5 win over the Bacone College junior varsity at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex. Games versus the Central Methodist University junior varsity scheduled at home Friday and on the road Sunday were cancelled...

INDEPENDENCE -- Fort Scott High School's softball team swept Independence here Tuesday by scores of 6-3 and 13-5 to extend its Southeast Kansas League winning streak to 31 games. The Tigers (6-0 SEK, 9-2 overall) haven't lost in league play since May 3, 2012, when they lost to Columbus in the first game of a doubleheader. Columbus has since become a member of the Crawford-Neosho-Cherokee League...

COLUMBUS -- Fort Scott High School's varsity track teams won eight medals here Tuesday at the Columbus Invitational. Three Tigers won events, including two boys. Nick Woods won discus with a mark of 152' 10", more than 14 feet better than the runner-up mark of 138' 5 1/2" from Pittsburg's Dylan Untereker...

INDEPENDENCE -- Fort Scott High School's baseball team routed Independence in both games of a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader here Tuesday, winning the opener 12-0 and the nightcap 13-0. The Tigers (4-2 SEK, 6-2 overall), ranked No. 7 in Class 4A-Division I in the latest Kansas Association of Baseball Coaches poll, bashed out 32 hits in the twin bill, 8 of them for extra bases...

Nick Banman's 3-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning of game two allowed Fort Scott Community College's baseball team to escape with a sweep of Kansas City Kansas in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play at Lions Field Thursday afternoon...

Wanda Avery McGilvra, age 77, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Thursday, April 23, 2015, at University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas. Services for Wanda Avery McGilvra will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main St.

A two-vehicle accident late Thursday afternoon sent a Fort Scott woman to the hospital. Local emergency personnel responded just before 5 p.m. to a two-vehicle wreck involving a 2001 Harley-Davidson motorcycle driven by Grace Milburn of Fort Scott and a 2003 Chevy Impala driven by Sherry Cook, also of Fort Scott. The two vehicles collided in the area of Wall and Margrave streets...

Tornado season is here and Uniontown residents have a shelter if needed. The community storm shelter is at West Bourbon Elementary School gym lockers and entrance must be made on the east side of the building, according to Uniontown City Clerk Sally Johnson...

A project to resurface Second Street from Lowman to Heylman streets is on hold due to weather. Chad Brown, the city's street and traffic supervisor, said Friday the project, which began earlier this month, has been delayed due to rain and cooler temperatures in recent weeks. The approximately two-week project involves milling and asphalt overlay on that portion of Second Street...

The Bourbon County Sheriff's Office is investigating a missing person from Bourbon County. The missing person is 20-year-old Loretta L. Franks from the Redfield area. Franks, a single woman, is described as being 5'04" 1481bs with brown eyes and brown hair. It is unknown what Franks was wearing at the time of her disappearance...