Stories from Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Fort Scott Community College was scheduled to host both baseball and softball doubleheaders Tuesday afternoon before rain, or the threat thereof, put a halt to those plans. The softball team was to host Mineral Area (Mo.) in a non-conference doubleheader but made the decision to postpone well before the rain arrived, which saved the visitors a long trip. That has been rescheduled for Saturday, March 19...

Three players as well as Fort Scott Community College head men's basketball coach Michael Cook received honors from the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference when it released the All-KJCCC-Division II and Region VI-Division II teams earlier this week...

Bright Star Touring Theatre actors Mike Kinder, left, and Aiesha Dukes, perform Tuesday at the Fort Scott National Historic Site for roughly 100 fifth grade Fort Scott students. A general admission show was performed Tuesday evening. The play, titled "Lift Every Voice: The Black Experience in the Heartland," was "specifically written for the NPS centennial," Jim Heaney said. ...

As the books on the county's 2015 fiscal year are about to be closed, the county commissioners are already beginning to think about FY 2017. The commissioners met with Terry Sercer, CPA with Diehl, Banwart, Bolton of Fort Scott Tuesday, who was going through the county's financial reports to answer a few questions he has before declaring FY 2015 closed. After that, he said he would make a final determination on how much money the county will have available to carry over into FY16...