Stories from Wednesday, September 23, 2015

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High's junior varsity tennis team saw all of its entries go 2-1 on the day at the Parsons Invitational here Monday. Both singles players finished in fifth place for the Tigers while both doubles teams took second. The No. 1 doubles team of Addison Cunningham and Madi Larson won its first-round match in a tiebreaker over Devon Coulter/Kamryn Kelley of Pittsburg, 6-5 (7-5). ...

CHANUTE -- Fort Scott High's pair of golfers finished well out of contention here Monday at the Chanute Invitational but progress right now is being measured in ways that the scoreboard does not fully indicate. "Three tournaments left in the regular season before Regionals and we've still got some work to do," Fort Scott head coach Karen Curran said. "Definitely looking forward to four good days of practice to work on some specific yardage shots and, as always, chipping and putting."...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High's junior varsity football team lost to Pittsburg here Monday night, 32-16. All of the Tigers' points came in the second half after trailing 24-0. Zarek Fewell and Derek Bollinger each scored touchdowns for the Tigers (2-1). Both also scored 2-point conversions...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School volleyball went 2-3 in a tough tournament here Saturday, finishing fourth. The tournament included larger schools such as Leavenworth. Despite coming into the tournament with just one loss on the season, the host Purple Dragons went 0-5, one of those losses to the Tigers...

With 13 freshmen and sophomores on a 21-player roster, it was known before the season began that Fort Scott High School's soccer team wasn't going to have things come easily. For the second consecutive day, a Tiger game was "run ruled" -- stopped when the margin reached 10 goals -- as Pittsburg took a 10-0 win in Southeast Kansas League play at Ellis Park...

Four Fort Scott Community College Board of Trustees voted to adopt the revised 2015-16 year budget for the college. A special meeting, held via a conference call with board members, was held Tuesday evening to revise the budget. "The revision is the result of an additional assessment coming through late, after we were given our budgets and submitted our budgets," Julie Eichenberger, FSCC dean of finance and operations said. ...

Bourbon County Commissioners agreed Tuesday to ask Frank Young, engineer with Agricultural Engineering of Uniontown, to meet with a landowner who claims part of his property is now in a county road. Mike Younggren and Bryan Slone, an attorney, attended the meeting to discuss the issue of the county road cutting through a corner of Younggren's property located on 115th Street near Indian Road. ...

Area residents who look to the skies may have noticed some low-flying planes making the rounds above Bourbon County. The planes residents might be seeing are spray planes that regularly take care of farmers' lands and fields by spraying to control pests and noxious weeds when farmers and ranchers aren't able to do so. The pilots make use of Fort Scott Municipal Airport and airports in other communities when doing their jobs...