Stories from Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Fort Scott Community College celebrated a national award in an intercollegiate championship at the FSCC Board of Trustees meeting Monday night. The FSCC Meat Judging Team and Livestock Judging Team won first place in their respective competitions at the American Royal, according to meat judging coach, Jenilee Martin in introducing the meats judging team...

Industrial Wrecking Co., Inc., of Kansas City, Mo., has been working in recent months to demolish the tower located near the corner of First Street and National Avenue. The site will become a parking lot for a future senior living apartment complex to be built in the older structure of the Western Insurance Building...

John "Johnny" Stowell, 68, passed away on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 at his home in Chanute, Kan. John was born on July 22, 1947 in Chanute, Kan., the son of Lewis E. Stowell and Cecil M. (Brown) Stowell North. On Sept. 23, 1988 John married Carol (Sheedy) Stowell in Miami, Okla. John had three children...

Ellen M. Robinson, 72, of Fort Scott, died Sunday evening, Nov. 15, 2015 at the Guest Home Estates. Funeral arrangements for Ellen Robinson are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Floyd F. Findley, 64, of Fort Scott, died Sunday morning, Nov. 15, 2015 at the Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg, Kan. Funeral arrangements for Floyd Findley are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Frank Austin Carroll, age 75, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, at his home. Father Timothy Sawchak will conduct funeral services at 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, at the Cheney Witt Chapel. Burial will follow in the U.S. National Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the Holy Trinity Icon Fund and may be left in care of the Cheney Witt Chapel, P.O. Box 347, 201 S. Main St., Fort Scott, KS. Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook at cheneywitt.com...

Uniontown Junior High girls' basketball opened the season last week with home games against Westphalia and Northeast Arma. The Eagles' dropped both the A and B team games. Against Westphalia on Nov. 9, the Uniontown B team fell, 28-13. Becky Goebel and Jada Allen each scored 4 points...

WILBURTON, Okla. -- Fort Scott Community College's men fell to Eastern Oklahoma State here Saturday afternoon, 68-63. The Greyhounds fell to 1-5 on the season and have yet to beat another junior college. Eastern Oklahoma State (4-0), a Division I school, led 30-27 at the half...

PITTSBURG -- The results of voting for the pre-season Southeast Kansas League girls' basketball poll revealed here Monday appear to indicate that there are three tiers of expectation this season. Defending co-champions Labette County and Chanute are in the first tier, separated in voting by just one point and the only teams to receive six top-three votes (coaches could not vote for their own teams). ...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High's boys were picked to finish second in the Southeast Kansas League this coming season in a poll conducted by KSHQ Radio (100.7 FM) and revealed at a basketball media conference here Monday. While the Tigers were chosen to repeat their second-place finish of a season ago, when they went 10-2 in the SEK and 16-7 overall, a new champion was tabbed to succeed Independence (12-0, 20-1). ...

FSCC shakes off loss to JV team, dominates Southwestern