Stories from Friday, October 16, 2015

The library of the Fort Scott Middle School flowed with students, teachers, and locals during the seventh-grade Wax Museum project Wednesday morning. As part of a history project, students read a biography of a famous person in history, give a brief first-person speech, then complete a research paper on that person. ...

Uniontown City Council signed off on a grant application to upgrade portions of the town's 50-year-old gas distribution system Tuesday evening. A required public hearing on the proposed project was held but there were no citizen comments. Carey Spoon of Southeast Kansas Regional Planning Commission will be the administrator the grant for the proposed project if the grant is received. She came to the meeting with several documents that needed approval and signatures...

Uniontown clinched its first Three Rivers League football championship since 2011. This week, the Eagles go on the road to take on Marais des Cygnes Valley in a battle of the top two teams in Eight-Man Division I District 1, looking to get closer to a district championship for the first time since 2006, when the program was in Class 2-1A...

Highland head coach Jon Bingesser, son of Fort Scott High School head coach Carol Bingesser, came into Arnold Arena with a plan to employ against Fort Scott Community College in a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division volleyball match at Arnold Arena Wedensday night...

Fort Scott High School senior Camiren Defebaugh will be going to make her first appearance at a State Tournament Monday when she travels to Hays for the Class 4A State Golf Tournament at Smoky Hill Country Club. Defebaugh says she worked harder on her game over the summer and during this season. ...

Class 4A District 4 play begins tonight when Fort Scott High visits Chanute in a game that also counts in Southeast Kansas League play at the Chanute Community Sports Complex. For those unfamiliar with the system, teams in a class are assigned to district, usually of four teams. The last three games of the regular season amount to a three-team, round-robin playoff qualifying tournament. The two best teams at the conclusion of district play qualify for the playoffs...

A few people have anticipated the return of former Fort Scott Community College head football coach Jeff Sims to Frary Field Saturday. But no one could have anticipated at the beginning of the season that both the Greyhounds and Sims' Garden City team would both be 1-6 and on six-game losing streaks...