Stories from Friday, August 14, 2015

Nancy Lou Dizmang, 73 of Fort Scott, died Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 12, 2015 at the Fort Scott Manor Nursing Home. Funeral arrangements for Nancy Dizmang are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Elberta Jean "Abbie" Atkisson, age 53, a resident of Fulton, Kan., died Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. There was cremation. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 21 at the Cheney Witt Chapel. ...

The Fulton school building is officially a historic place in Kansas. On Saturday, Aug. 8, during the quarterly meeting for the Kansas Historic Sites Board of Review held in the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, the nomination for the Fulton Middle and High School to join other historic buildings went up for review. The school was nominated to be placed alongside other schools on the Historic Public Schools of Kansas registry, which is part of the Register of Historic Kansas Places...

Mercy Chepleting was given a unique opportunity and now she's taking advantage of it. Chepleting, 27, who is currently finishing a month-long rotation as a University of Kansas pharmacy intern at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott, is from Kenya and is currently living in Fort Scott while working her way through pharmacy school...