Stories from Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Public Works Director Jim Harris on June 14 reported Shafer, Kline & Warren of Lenexa, engineers for the project have recently submitted a plan for road repairs, water runoff, and other aspects of the project to the Kansas Department of Transportation's review...

Fort Scott firefighters battled the heat and a house fire Friday evening on East Wall Street. Fort Scott Fire Chief Paul Ballou said Monday local fire investigators are looking into the cause of a blaze that started in a residence in the 1200 block of East Wall Street about 5 p.m...

The Bourbon County Relay for Life event, honoring cancer victims and survivors as well as raising money for cancer research, took place Saturday night on the campus of Fort Scott Community College. Events and activities included a survivor lap and caregiver lap, a cannon firing to kick off the event, inflatables and games for children, and a DJ providing entertainment throughout the night...

Echoes of the Trail celebrated its 20th and final year Friday and Saturday as an event in Fort Scott. This year's event began with a cowboy dance on Friday night, with music by Kinley Taylor Rice and Crossfire and concluded with performances by Johnny Kendrick and the Branchy Boys, Geff and Dawn Dawson, and Del Shields...

Solo competitors in the annual Race Across America began passing through Fort Scott, the site of Time Station 30 at 21 N. Caldwell, Sunday evening. The soloists began racing last Tuesday from Oceanside, Calif. Teams of two, four and eight people began racing Saturday. Because they can relay, they need less time to cover the 3,069 miles between Oceanside and the finish line in Annapolis, Md...

Martin Hudececk-Ashwill was a follower of the annual Race Across America coast-to-coast bicycle endurance race when he lived in Fort Scott during the 1980s. But when he moved to California later in the decade, he lost track of the event. When he moved back to Fort Scott from Olathe a little less than two years ago, purchasing the house at 21 N. Caldwell, he remembered the race and looked up information on it...

Donald Dale Picht, age 84, a resident of Blue Mound, Kan., died Friday, May 13, 2016, at the Medicalodge in Fort Scott, Kan. A graveside memorial service will be held at 1:30 p.m., Friday, June 24, 2016, in the U.S. National Cemetery. Military Honors will be provided by the Olson Frary Burkhart Post No. ...

Mary Lou Heiser Hardy, 88, of Fort Scott, passed away Monday, June 20, 2016 at her home. She was born Nov. 26, 1927 in Garland, Kan., the daughter of Clarence S. and Fern D. (Boone) Snow. She married Robert G. Heiser Nov. 23, 1949 in Fort Scott, Kan., and he preceded her in death May 25, 1984. She later married William O. Hardy, and he preceded her in death July 23, 2010...

Peggy A. Elliott, age 83, of Gardner passed away June 20 at Overland Park Regional Hospital. Funeral Service will be 11 a.m. Thursday, June 23, 2016 at New Life Community Church, 17935 Moonlight Rd, Gardner, KS, with burial following at Gardner Cemetery. ...