Stories from Friday, March 16, 2018

Merlene Viola Hornish, age 81, a resident of rural Mapleton, Kan., passed away Wednesday, March 14, 2018, at the Mercy Hospital in Ft. Scott, Kan. She was born July 17, 1936, in Cash, Okla., the daughter of John Rimmer and Elva Penrod Rimmer. She married Mike Hornish on Oct. 5, 1991, at Hillsboro, Ore. Merlene had worked as a bus driver in Oregon and later in Linn County, Kan...

A student who was interviewed about a threatening comment he was accused of making at Uniontown High School has officially been charged in the District Court of Bourbon County. Seth Alexander Shore, 19, was arrested at 7 a.m. Wednesday, March 14, on charges of criminal threat, cause terror, evacuation, disruption. ...

Jim and Connie Banwart, right, are winners of this year’s Keystone Award presented during the Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner and Awards Celebration held Thursday at Liberty Theatre. The award is presented annually to longtime Fort Scott residents who as an individual or couple have made an outstanding contribution to the community. The award was presented by Chamber Executive Director Lindsay Madison, left...

Many Fort Scott High School students participated in a national walk out at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Frary Field. The national event was to be a show of student unity against gun violence in schools and was in response to the Feb. 14 killing of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Nikolas Cruz, 19, was arrested after he was seen leaving a McDonald’s restaurant following the shooting...

Fort Scott High School’s tennis team opened its season Tuesday at Independence with a five-team round-robin varsity tournament. There are 12 players out for this year’s team, three of whom won letters last season. Elijah Wright and Joe Adams are the Tigers’ seniors. ...

Uniontown voted 4th, Northeast 6th in Three Rivers

HIGHLAND — Fort Scott Community College’s baseball team split a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader with Highland here Thursday, winning game one 6-1 but falling in the nightcap, 13-12, in 11 innings. The teams swapped locations for this week’s series. Thursday’s games were meant to be played in Fort Scott but instead it will be today’s games that will be held at Lions Field beginning at 1 p.m...

ARMA — Uniontown and Northeast squared off in an early season-opening baseball doubleheader here Thursday with the visiting Eagles taking 9-5 and 12-7 wins. This non-league doubleheader was scheduled to fill a hole in scheduling that happens because Altoona-Midway sponsors softball but not baseball. The league games will take place April 26 at Uniontown...

Fort Scott Community College’s softball team scored 23 runs in a sweep of Dodge City in non-conference play at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex Thursday afternoon. The Greyhounds won game one 13-5 and the second 10-2, both in just five innings due to the run rule...