Stories from Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Both of Fort Scott Middle School's seventh-grade basketball teams are on winning streaks that continued with a sweep of Pittsburg Tuesday evening at the FSMS gymnasium.\ The seventh graders won the "B" game to open the day, 23-1, shutting out the Purple Dragons until they scored a free throw with 1:13 remaining. The "A" team took a 46-29 victory...

Five Fort Scott Community College volleyball players recently received receive postseason honors. Freshman Brette Moore was named to both the Jayhawk Conference-Division II and Region VI-District M teams. Sophomores Julia Stringer, Emily Bruce and Sheri Middleton and freshman Mickey Trimble were all named Honorable Mention All-Conference. Bruce and Trimble were also selected to the Second Team All-District for District M...

PITTSBURG -- Both the girls' and boys' basketball teams were picked to finish in third place this season in Three Rivers League pre-season basketball polls released here Monday by KSHQ Radio (100.7 FM). Uniontown's girls were selected behind defending champion St. ...

mmission on Tuesday approved continuation of the Neighborhood Revitalization Program. During a public hearing, Director of Economic Development Heather Smith requested approval of the NRP, a program that provides incentives, in the form of tax rebates, to property owners who improve their properties or to developers who develop new commercial and residential property. The purpose of the program is to encourage the rehabilitation and development of residential and commercial property...

There is some preliminary work that needs to be done before a closing date is set for property the county is considering purchasing for the new county jail. On Tuesday, county commissioners met with Kevin Rost, senior project leader from Goldberg Group Architects PC of St. ...

Floyd F. Findley, 64, of Fort Scott, died Sunday morning, Nov. 15, 2015 at the Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg, Kan. He was born July 13, 1951 in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Eldon Albert and Ula Beatrice (Carr) Findley. He married Joyce Cox in August of 1980 in Miami, Okla., and she survives of the home...

Sonya Renee` Jackson, 44, of Fort Scott, died Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015 at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. She was born June 30, 1971 in Anchorage, Alaska, the daughter of Johnny O. and Christina (Meckem) Vess. She married Shon Michael Jackson July 1, 1992 in Bullhead City, Ariz., and he survives of the home...

Marguerite Aletha Freeman, 94, of Fort Scott passed away Tuesday morning, Nov. 17, 2015 at the Fort Scott Manor. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.