Stories from Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Shirley Ann Howell, age 65, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Sunday, April 30, 2017, at her home. She was born Nov. 3, 1951, in Fort Scott, the daughter of Herbert Lee McReynolds and Rosie Virginia Gibson McReynolds. She graduated from the Uniontown High School. ...

Fort Scott High School teacher Lisa Ward received a last-day-of-school surprise. Ward, who is retiring this year, is a longtime business and finance instructor at the high school. During a faculty meeting Tuesday afternoon in the school’s commons area, Ward was honored as a 2017 Kansas Distinguished Financial Educator. Several FSHS faculty members and administrators were present for the recognition...

A former employee of the Community Christian Church in Fort Scott has been charged with alleged sex crimes that took place in 2009. On Friday, May 12, the Norman Police Department in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, arrested 35-year-old Joseph Wayne Banker on a Bourbon County arrest warrant charging Banker with one count each of electronic solicitation and sexual battery, and two counts of sexual exploitation of a child, according to a news release from the Fort Scott Police Department...

The Fort Scott Community College Board of Trustees had to reconsider options Monday night when bids it sought for financing the relocation of the John Deere Program to Fort Scott and refinancing the current energy lease didn’t produce expected results...

Fort Scott High School senior Emily Adams shares a laugh with retiring counselor Patty Smilie, left, and retiring teacher Lisa Ward as the FSHS commencement ceremony begins. As is tradition, teachers lined the track at Frary Field to greet and say goodbye to the seniors as they made their way to their seats...

Three former Tigers earn honors for other schools

GARDEN CITY —Uniontown junior Dylan O’Neal took part in the Class 2A State Golf Tournament at Garden City’s Southwind Country Club here Monday. He shot 59 on the front nine and 72 on the back to finish with a total of 131. That put him in 82nd place...

WAMEGO — Fort Scott High School freshman Nick King finished tied for 28th in a field of 101 here Monday at the Class 4A State Golf Tournament . King shot 45 on the front nine and 40 on the back to finish with a score of 85, 15 strokes over par. Teammate Tanner Fox, a junior, placed 95th with his score of 57-54—111. This was also his first State appearance...

PAOLA — Fort Scott High School will have five entries in the State Track and Field Championships at Wichita this weekend and had two more athletes who missed qualifying by slim margins. In all, Tiger girls medaled in six events and qualified three to State from the Paola Class 5A Regional Meet on Friday. The boys have Devin Brooks going to State in two events and had four other medalists...