Stories from Tuesday, January 24, 2017

After more than two hours in closed session, the USD 235 Board of Education took no action Monday to hire a new district superintendent. At the special meeting, board members spent most of their time in executive session to discuss the superintendent search. Board President Jason Sutterby began the meeting by calling for a 60-minute executive session to discuss personnel matters for non-elected personnel...

Representatives of several area entities discussed planning for a possible tornado event in Bourbon County during a mock tabletop exercise Monday morning. Discussion at the workshop centered around coordination and planning among several agencies in the event a destructive tornado and severe flooding were to hit the area, causing widespread damages...

William "Bill" Jensen, Jr., 80, of Poteet, Texas, died Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 at South Texas Regional Medical Center in Jourdanton, Texas. He was born in Bison, Okla., on Feb. 19, 1936 to William and Dorothy Iven Jensen. After the family moved from Oklahoma to Fort Scott, Kan., he married Sonja Caufield. ...

Mr. Tracy Scott Allison, age 73, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his loved ones, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016. He was born Jan. 14, 1943 in Bay City, Texas, and grew up in Fort Scott, Kan. Scott was the son of the late Norval Alexander Allison and Grace Elizabeth Allen Allison. Mr. Allison was the husband of Joanne G. Allison...

Mary Margaret "Margie" Murphy Albright, age 80, a resident of rural Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, at her home surrounded by loved ones. She was born Jan. 1, 1937, in Fort Scott, the daughter of Timothy S. Murphy and Lillian B. ...

Kay Lloyd Black, age 93, Prescott, Kan., passed away on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. He was born on Dec. 17, 1923 in rural Pleasanton, Kan., the son of Clovie Lloyd and Edith Holmes Black. He attended grade school at Fairfield and graduated from Prescott High School in the Class of 1942. ...

Ruth Arlene Kibble, 83, died Tuesday morning, Jan. 24, 2017 at Fort Scott Manor. She was born Jan. 30, 1933 in Bronson, Kan., the daughter of William Harold and Claribel P. (Steward) Rogers. Ruth worked at The Western Insurance Co. and American States for 30 years, and had been a member of the Order of the Eastern Star...