Stories from Wednesday, January 13, 2016

The USD 235 Board of Education is moving one step closer to hiring a new leader for the district. Officials said a decision will be made for the superintendent/junior high-senior high principal position by Jan. 25, according to information provided by the search advisory team...

Members of Fort Scott Community College's strategic planning group updated the FSCC Board of Trustees Monday night. "We had a successful inservice (Jan. 6) with Strategic Planning, which will kick off (soon)," FSCC Dean of Instruction Regena Lance said. ...

Bourbon County Public Works Director Jim Harris told Bourbon County Commissioners Tuesday he is seeing roads "come apart that have never come apart before." Drier weather would help as he said the area has received 54.6 inches of rain, coming 5 inches at a time. But hiring an additional motor grader operator also would help the road maintenance...

MORAN -- Uniontown Junior High girls' basketball split a pair of game versus Marmaton Valley here Monday. The "A" Team lost 22-20. Karleigh Schoenberger led the Eagles with 12 points. The "B" Team won 27-16. Paige Mason led the way with 9 points while Jada Allen added 8...

NEVADA -- Fort Scott Middle School's basketball teams took on Nevada here Tuesday with the home team taking both games. Nevada's seventh-grade "A" Team remained undefeated (4-0) with a 39-12 win. Logan Applegate finished with a game-high 16 for Nevada while Ben Hines added 10. Gavin Pytlowany led Fort Scott with 7 points while Luke Bradbury added 4...

PITTSBURG -- Pittsburg swept Fort Scott High here Tuesday night in a Southeast Kansas League basketball doubleheader. The Purple Dragon girls' squad took a 52-38 win while the boys held off a Tiger rally to prevail 61-58. Fort Scott's boys (1-3 SEK, 2-5 overall) trailed by as many as 13 points in the third quarter but managed to get within three with 15 seconds left when Austin Cook came out of a scramble for a loose ball and scored...