Stories from Friday, May 25, 2018

A restraining order has been filed in Bourbon County District Court against the owners and operators of a local nursing facility. The ex parte restraining order, filed May 15 by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services, is to keep the owners of Fort Scott Manor, identified as DJKIERL, Inc., of Mound City, from operating the facility and requests that operation of the facility be turned over to KDADS Secretary Timothy E. ...

Fort Scott Community College officials are moving nearer to closing on the purchase of the Red Ram motel property for housing college students in the fall. At the Monday meeting of the FSCC Board of Trustees, board members heard from John Haas, representing Ranson Financial Group LLC, the college’s financial advisor, that only one bid was received for the certificates of participation the college recently issued for financing the purchase of the property...

Another housing development in the downtown area is on track to move forward, and could be good for economic development, city officials said. Fort Scott Director of Economic Development Rachel Pruitt told city commissioners at their May 15 meeting the developer for the Fort Scott Lofts project, a proposed housing development in the Union Block building at 18, 20 and 22 S. Main St., has been awarded Affordable Housing Tax Credits, allowing the project to proceed...