Stories from Saturday, August 29, 2015

Tyler Jackman, the new West Bourbon Elementary School (WBE) principal, comes from a family of educators. "There is a history of teachers in my family," Jackman said. "My mom and dad, my maternal grandparents were both teachers and several aunts and uncles. Teaching kind of fit."...

Members of the USD 234 Board of Education pose for a photo with hard hats and shovels as the Fort Scott High School Tiger football team prepares for the Red/White Scrimmage Friday evening at Frary Field. Renovating the football field, which includes new artificial turf, is part of a $40.8 million school improvement projects being funded by a bond issue. ...

A preliminary hearing was held Friday in the Bourbon County Sixth Judicial District Court to determine if there was enough information to bind over Anthony M. Anderson for trial on charges related to the death of an infant. After roughly three-and-a-half hours in court, Magistrate Judge Valorie Leblanc announced there is probable cause to bind over Anderson for both counts he is charged with...

Kyle Flanner, 33, met his Savior face to face, on Aug. 27, 2015, from Joplin, Mo. He was born in Fort Scott, Kan., on June 8, 1982, to Karl and Joyce Flanner. He attended Faith Christian Academy, Fort Scott and Victory Bible Institute of Tulsa, Okla. ...

The golf season got underway for Uniontown's program Thursday when it hosted a junior-varsity level "rookie" tournament at Woodland Hills Golf Course in Fort Scott. The start of the tournament was delayed an hour due to a concern of possible rain but went off without a hitch...

Fort Scott High School head volleyball coach Carol Bingesser mixed things up at the team's Red and White Scrimmage in the FSHS gymnasium Tuesday afternoon. She decided to split up her varsity and junior varsity teams and put some of each group on each side of the net. Bingesser coached the Red team while assistant Jenna Campbell coached the White squad...

There was a little more pomp and circumstance than usual prior to Friday night's Red and White Football Scrimmage at Frary Field, with the dedication of the high-school projects -- the new artificial surface at the stadium among them. But once things got going, head coach Bob Campbell and his staff were pleased to see their players put on a very competitive scrimmage...