Stories from Saturday, October 29, 2016

Bourbon County Commissioners on Thursday agreed it is time to remove the sheriff from the jail project. The decision was made after First District Commissioner Lynne Oharah read a statement he prepared in the wake of comments Sheriff Bill Martin made during the Oct. 20 Candidate Forum...

Fort Scott Community College's sophomores went out in style in their final home match of the season at Arnold Arena Wednesday, sweeping Kansas City Kansas in a Jayhawk Conference-Division II match, 25-17, 25-16, 25-16. The win moved the Greyhounds into fourth place in the division at 5-3, 25-10 overall, half a match behind Neosho County, which holds a tie-breaker over Fort Scott. Kansas City dropped into sixth place at 4-4, 19-13...

UNIONTOWN -- Uniontown's season closed with a 48-6 loss to Pittsburg Colgan in Class 2-1A District 4 play here Friday night. Both teams came into the nights already aware of their fates. Uniontown (2-7) had already been eliminated from the playoffs while Colgan (6-3) was already assured of the district championship and a Bi-District home game next Friday...

Fort Scott Community College sophomore linebacker Dominic Cizauskas was named the NJCAA Defensive Player of the Week for his 19-tackle, two-touchdown game at Ellsworth (Iowa) on Oct. 22. Cizauskas, a redshirt from Mukwanago, Wis., recovered two fumbles and took both in for scores, including one with less than two minutes remaining in the game that sealed the victory for the Greyhounds after they had just claimed a one-point lead. ...

New Fort Scott Community College women's basketball coach Jeff Tadtman wasn't given a choice when it came to leaving his previous position. He wasn't fired; the job was taken away from him when Oklahoma's educational budget cuts forced his former school, Carl Albert State College, to eliminate both of its basketball programs...

The Fort Scott Community College men's basketball team tied for the Jayhawk Conference-Division II championship last season with Johnson County, finishing last season at 14-17 following a 4-13 start against tough competition. In fact, the Greyhounds have won at least a share of the division title each of the seasons the conference has been separated into the current setup...

OTTAWA -- It was already known going into Friday night's football game that Ottawa was the Class 4A-Division I District 3 champion and that Fort Scott High was going to miss the playoffs for the first time since 2009. So Ottawa's 47-0 victory didn't change the status of either team...

After 15 years of helping to serve the needy in the community, The Beacon Director Bob Eckles is stepping down. Eckles, who has worked in the position since 2001, said in an interview Thursday that he has chosen to retire next month and will be handing direction of the local food pantry and community assistance agency to Fort Scott resident Sue Emmons...