Stories from Friday, June 3, 2016

Reported damage to some city parks and lakes over the Memorial Day weekend have left city officials "frustrated." City staff this week discovered evidence of vandalism at Fort Scott Lake and Rock Creek Lake, and also at the James B. Tedesco Memorial Skatepark, City Manager Dave Martin said Wednesday...

Beginning July 1, a new Kansas law will go into effect which will allow county employees to carry guns to their job. That means the Bourbon County Commissioners have only weeks to decide whether a security system will be implemented which would prevent employees from carrying guns to work...

The list of candidates for the Aug. 2 primary is now official as the deadline to file as a candidate was noon Wednesday. Voters will have decisions to make when they go to the polls. Republicans will have to select the final candidate for county commissioners in District 2 and 3 as well as for the sheriff...

The annual Good Ol' Days celebration kicked off Thursday with the annual Fort Scott Idol competition. The Good Ol' Days parade will begin at 6 p.m. today in downtown Fort Scott. The parade route is north on Main Street from 6th Street to Wall Street, then west on Wall Street to National Avenue, then south on National Avenue to 6th Street...

John Ellis Harth, born March 2, 1951, left this earth on June 2, 2016. He loved life and never met a stranger. He was loved dearly by his mother, Abbie Harth; sister Clara Houston, husband Stuart; sister Evelyn Losey, husband Gary. He was preceded in death by his father Ammon Mondell Harth, and brother Olen George Harth. ...

Deleena "Dee Dee" Gayle Cone, 65, of Lebanon, Mo., died Sunday, May 29, 2016, in Lebanon. She was born Nov. 8, 1950, in Sioux City, Iowa, to Calvin Marker and Barbara Lee Mann Pottorff, who preceded her in death. Survivors include two sons, Thomas Calvin Morrison, of Iowa, and Michael Alexander Morrison, of Lebanon, Mo.; two daughters, Tonia Marie Boykin, of Iowa, and Mandy Kay Ruble and her husband, Matthew, of Lebanon; three brothers, Lyn Rosenbaum and his wife, Sharon, of Indianapolis, Ind.; Lonny Pottorff, of Gravois Mills, Mo., and Danny Pottorff, of Columbia, Mo.; three sisters, Dixie Lee McLaughlin, of Hutchinson, Kan.; Deb McKenney and her husband, Tim, of Fort Scott, Kan., and Dawn Pottorff, of Belton, Mo.; seven grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, many nieces and nephews, other relatives and friends.. ...

The Kansas Indians, a team made up mostly of players who were on the Fort Scott High School varsity this past season, opened the summer schedule with two games for the 18-and-under team in a showcase hosted by Fort Scott Community College Thursday evening...