Stories from Saturday, May 30, 2015

Tiger Drama Camp ended Friday afternoon with a performance by the 33 students who attended the camp director Angie Bin. Campers ranged in age from first to ninth graders. Mary Jo Harper assisted Bin in the four-day camp at Fort Scott High School. During the camp, students learned public speaking in a crowd of peers and non-peers, improv games and auditioned for a role, Harper said. ...

Bourbon County officials said Friday they have seen no reports of damages from continuous rainfall in the county over the last week or so and throughout May. According to figures provided by Bourbon County Deputy Emergency Manager Shane Walker, Fort Scott has seen a seven-day rain total of 3.35 inches and 10.28 inches for the month of May. ...

Attendance at Fort Scott Community College Interim President Dick Hedges' farewell reception held Friday was larger than anticipated. The reception was moved from the Heritage Room to the cafeteria in the building named for him -- the Dick Hedges Administration Building. Hedges' last day as interim president was Friday. Alysia Johnston takes the helm as FSCC president Monday...

WICHITA -- Uniontown High School's boys 4x100-meter relay finished seventh in Friday morning's Class 2A preliminaries and will be running in today's finals at the Kansas State Track and Field Championships at Wichita State's Cessna Stadium. Eagle senior Cole Shafer finished 14th in the prelims of the boys' 200-meter dash and did not advance to finals...

WICHITA -- Fort Scott High junior Cassidy Westhoff finished second in the Class 4A girls' 3,200-meter run while classmate Josh Hudiburg finished fourth in a deep Class 4A javelin competition at the Kansas State Track and Field Championships at Cessna Stadium here Friday...