Stories from Friday, March 30, 2018

Carol Diane Cornett, age 66, Garnett, Kan., passed away on Thursday, March 29, 2018 at her home in Garnett. Funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Monday, April 2, 2018 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, La Cygne Chapel. Burial will be in the Richland Cemetery. ...

When the Bourbon County Commissioners meet Tuesday, they are expected to discuss whether to ask voters to approve a change in the liquor-by-the-drink ordinance. If passed, microbreweries would not be required to sell food. On Tuesday, commissioners met with several representatives of the City of Fort Scott and Brian and Barbara Ritter, owners of the Boiler Room Brewhaus located at 102 S. National Ave...

A small crowd turned out to help thank and honor veterans of the Vietnam War during a 50th anniversary commemoration ceremony Thursday afternoon at the Fort Scott National Cemetery. The ceremony included remarks from local historian and keynote speaker Arnold Schofield, a U.S. Army veteran, who shared wartime memories; posting of the colors by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1165; remarks from Timothy Lopez, cemetery technician; and the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance...

Fort Scott High’s junior varsity tennis team faced Nevada in a best-of-nine dual on the road Wednesday with the home squad winning 8-1. Weston Pellett had the Tigers’ lone win, beating Nevada’s Holden Pettitt in No. 1 singles, 9-7. The other five singles matches went to Nevada. ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Fort Scott Community College’s softball team managed only a split here Tuesday in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play. The home team took the opener, 10-9, while the Greyhounds won the second game, 11-4. The win in the first game was the first in conference play for KCK (1-11 East, 7-13 overall), breaking a seven-game losing streak overall. The Greyhounds improved to 4-6, 21-12 with their win in the second game...

GALENA — Northeast’s Jasper Atchison won three events on the boys’ side of the season-opening Galena Invitational, scoring all but one of the Vikings’ team points. Northeast tied for ninth on the boys’ side with St. Paul with 21 points each. Viking girls finished 14th with 6 points...

ALTAMONT — Fort Scott High School’s girls finished in third place behind Independence and Iola in the season-opening track and field meet at Labette County here Thursday. The varsity girls scored 56 points and won 10 medals. Indy scored 97 points and Iola finished with 84. The junior varsity girls won 16 medals and six events in easily taking the team title with 116 points, 46 points more than runner-up Independence...

Until the top of the seventh inning, Friday’s Southeast Kansas League baseball game between Pittsburg and Fort Scott High was a darn good one. But in the top of the seventh inning, the Purple Dragons scored 13 times and turned a tight game into a 18-8 blowout of the Tigers...

Waterbury home run pushes Greyhounds to game-two win