Stories from Wednesday, September 7, 2016

The 111th Uniontown Old Settlers Picnic was held Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Besides games, food and giveaways, the event also featured a ranch rodeo and youth rodeo on Saturday and Sunday, a kids' fishing derby and ranch rodeo on Saturday, and church service and youth rodeo on Sunday. The rodeos were sponsored by the Uniontown Saddle Club. See more photos in a future edition of The Tribune...

The 2017 budget, which includes a 2.955 mill increase, was adopted by the Bourbon County Commissioners Tuesday. While no members of the public attended the public hearing, some elected officials were at the meeting -- Treasurer Rhonda Dunn, Register of Deeds Lora Holdridge and County Counselor Justin Meeks...

The Friends of the Fort Scott National Historic Site hosted a Centennial Grand Ball Saturday evening in honor of the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. The ball, held at Memorial Hall, featured music from the 1800s and attendees were encouraged, but not required, to wear period costumes...

OLATHE -- Fort Scott High School soccer fell 5-4 in "golden-goal" overtime here Tuesday night. David Brown scored twice for the Tigers (0-5) while Hudson Horn and John Montojo scored one goal each. "Golden goal" is the soccer equivalent of sudden-death overtime, the game ending upon the first score of overtime...

ALTAMONT -- Fort Scott High's Devin Brooks won the varsity boys' race at the season-opening Labette County Invitational Cross-Country meet here Thursday, Sept. 1. Brooks finished the course in 17 minutes, 31 seconds, a half-minute ahead of the runner-up. Gavin Smith was 7th in 18:37...

NORFOLK, Neb. -- No. 14 Fort Scott Community College's volleyball team split its matches at an invitational here over the weekend, dropping two matches against other schools ranked in NJCAA Division II on Friday. No. 8 Kirkwood downed the Greyhounds in four sets on Friday, 25-15, 25-19, 17-25, 25-22. ...

INDEPENDENCE -- Fort Scott Community College's only points of the second half were scored by a Fort Scott High School graduate here Saturday night, giving the Greyhounds a 22-20 victory over Independence in Jayhawk Conference play. Brody Southwell's 23-yard field goal with 11:07 remaining in the fourth quarter was the only score by either team in the second half. It was the third field goal of the game for the FSHS graduate...

Crystal a medalist for Uniontown in Fort Scott Tournament