Stories from Friday, September 23, 2016

Fort Scott City Commissioners on Tuesday approved engineering services for some water production and distribution improvements and heard the results of an inspection at the wastewater treatment plant. Public Utilities Director Michael Mix informed commissioners about an annual inspection that took place May 25 at the wastewater treatment plant located at 601 N. Barbee St. Mix said there were no deficiencies or violations found that require action...

Some changes are coming down the pike for a local community assistance agency. As of Oct. 1, the My Father's House Community Outreach Center, which provides outreach and day services to rural homeless people and those in need in the Fort Scott/Bourbon County area, will be known as Fort Scott Compassionate Ministries...

A historical tour of the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery took place Thursday evening. The tour was the first of a planned series of narrated, guided historic tours of local cemeteries hosted by the Old Fort Genealogical Library. Local historian Fred Campbell will provide a tour of Evergreen Cemetery on Thursday, Sept. 29...

The game should feel the same. When Fort Scott steps onto the FieldTurf at Pittsburg's Hutchinson Field tonight, the Tigers shouldn't fell any different about this game than they have than any other game they've played against the Purple Dragons. And Pittsburg should feel the same way as well,...

It began with a conversation among friends. Bill Hall, Pete Allen and Jerry Wheeler were sharing memories a couple of years ago when they began to reminisce about their days playing football at Fort Scott High School. The three played during the late 1950s and were teammates on the 1957 Tiger football squad. Then the memories came around to the fourth game of that season, an October 12 contest against Coffeyville played on the then-grass surface of Frary Field...

Fort Scott High School's tennis team won three pools Tuesday as the Tigers won their home varsity tournament. Fort Scott entries placed first in No. 1 singles, No. 1 doubles and No. 2 doubles and second in No. 2 singles. Another doubles team filling in for a missing Independence entry finished second...

Fort Scott High School's soccer team suffered a 6-0 loss to Independence in a Southeast Kansas League match Thursday at Ellis Park. It was the Tigers' third loss of the week. They were shut out by Spring Hill, 10-0, at Lions Field on Monday and lost at Pittsburg in a Tuesday Southeast Kansas League match, 5-1...

ERIE -- Uniontown sent three golfers to a rookie meet here Tuesday with one winning a medal. Daryan Herring finished 10th for the Eagles, shooting 71 over nine holes. Libby Franks and Aubry O'Neal tied for 13th, each shooting 74. Marcy McDonald of Girard was the winner with a 61...

UNIONTOWN -- Uniontown High School's volleyball team swept a Three Rivers League "sorta" quadrangular at West Bourbon Elementary School. The Eagles played Northeast and St. Paul and while Yates Center was also present, the Wildcats only played the other two teams...

IOLA -- Fort Scott High's girls, boosted by three individual top-10 finishes, won the team title at the Doc Stiles Invitational here Tuesday. The Tigers finished with 31 points with Nevada second with 44, Iola third with 59 and Anderson County rounding out the list of eligible teams with 95...

Fort Scott Community College's volleyball team overcame struggles in the second and third sets, won the fourth and held a 14-12 lead in the fifth and deciding set of a Jayhawk Conference-Division II match with Neosho County at Arnold Arena Wednesday night...

Marion Harrison George, age 71, a resident of Uniontown, Kan., died early Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, at the Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, Kan. He was born Sept. 24, 1944, in Fort Scott, the son of Leslie Edward George and Viola Pauline Buntain George. ...

Uniontown City Council members hired two new employees during a special meeting held Wednesday. Betsie Binford is now the part-time animal control officer. She will work as needed and receive $9 per hour, plus mileage. Doug Coyan is the new codes enforcement officer. He will work 10 to 15 hours per month for a total $150 per month, plus mileage...

Workers are in the midst of a project to make improvements to U.S. Highway 69 and the highway's intersections with South National Avenue and various other streets. Work began in May on intersection and corridor improvements. The U.S. 69 project area runs from South National to 23rd Street and includes intersections with National, 19th and 23rd streets. ...

Megan Felt, program director at the Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes, talks to students and teachers from Topeka about the center's Life in a Jar project Friday at the educational center. Felt was among a group of Uniontown students who spearheaded the project, which tells the story of Polish heroine Irena Sendler and her efforts to rescue Jewish children in World War II, in 1999. ...