Stories from Friday, June 19, 2015

lysis center began this week, city officials said. City Manager Dave Martin said Thursday the Kansas Department of Health and Environment has started an inspection of the Fresenius Medical Care Dialysis Service center located at 2526 S. Main St., which, due to lack of an appropriate inspection, has not been able to serve patients with Medicaid or Medicare, which are federal programs...

Signs deter motorists from crossing the railroad tracks at 10th and Wilson streets Thursday. City Manager Dave Martin said BNSF has been making some repairs to tracks that were in bad condition at various railroad intersections this week. The crossing at Sixth street was closed Tuesday and reopened to traffic on Wednesday, when work started on the intersection at 10th and Wilson streets. The work was scheduled to be completed Thursday afternoon...

ard with the construction of a new solid waste transfer station at the Bourbon County landfill was made Wednesday. During a special meeting Wednesday, Bourbon County Commissioners signed a contract with Holmes Center Contractors of Pittsburg, which submitted a bid for $348,850, which was more than the commissioners had planned to spend on the project...

City commissioners received an update Tuesday on an effort last month to beautify a portion of town through a property improvement blitz. Craig Campbell, volunteer leader for the Good Neighbor Action Team, spoke about a GNAT blitz that took place May 30-31 along the East Wall Street corridor. The aim of the project was to improve curb appeal of several properties and help property owners bring their properties up to code...

Fort Scott Community College will be seeking a new athletic director as J.D. Ettore resigned his position earlier this week to take a similar position at a junior college in Ohio. Ettore was on the road Thursday when he returned the Tribune's request for a comment via telephone. He said he was offered the position and that "my wife (Sarah) and I walked about it and it was definitely a promotion financially. It's also closer to my family in New Jersey."...

Gene Bruner, age 74, resident of Fort Scott died Friday, June 19, 2015, at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. Funeral services for Gene Bruner will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main St., Fort Scott.