Stories from Tuesday, October 16, 2018

A dozen people attended the Fort Scott Community College Board of Trustee meeting Monday night to learn about the future of the Gordon Parks Museum. Trustees approved the consent agenda, which included acceptance of Jill Warford’s separation as executive director of the museum as of Oct. 9, the day after the annual Gordon Parks Celebration concluded...

City and county officials are joining forces to address the future of local healthcare. On Oct. 4, two days after Mercy Hospital Fort Scott officials announced the hospital would be closing its doors by Dec. 31, city and county officials announced a process had begun to form a task force that will research and identify potential health care solutions after the hospital’s closure. The first Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott opened in 1886...

City and county officials met with U.S. Senator Jerry Moran Monday to discuss the planned airport expansion and how it ties in with health care in the wake of Mercy Hospital Fort Scott’s announcement to close on Dec. 31. Moran toured the Fort Scott Municipal Airport, then went into a closed-door meeting with local officials and leaders of businesses that use the airport. Moran spoke to the Tribune following the meeting...

Fort Scott High School’s volleyball team drew the No. 12 seed out of the 18 teams on the east side of the state in Class 4A and will has been assigned to the Louisburg Sub-State this Saturday. The tournament was seeded before the results of last Saturday’s Anderson County Tournament were known. The Tigers went 1-2 there, losing to Burlington and Wellsville but beating host Anderson County to finish the regular-season at 11-21. They were seeded with a 10-19 record...

For a brief period of time this season, Fort Scott Community College’s volleyball team struggled to stay above the .500 mark. But the Greyhounds will go into tonight’s home Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division match-up against Hesston on a seven-match winning streak...

OSAWATOMIE — Uniontown’s volleyball team concluded the regular season with a 1-3 record at the Osawatomie Tournament here Saturday. “This is always a tough tournament but the level of play is great,” Eagles head coach Jackie Hall said. “It’s what we need heading into Sub-State.”...

IOWA FALLS, Iowa — Fort Scott Community College receiver Jon Jiles had one of the biggest days in Greyhound football history here Saturday in FSCC’s 36-30 overtime victory over Ellsworth. Jiles caught 12 Gunner See passes for 209 yards and three touchdowns, including a game-winning 25-yard haul on the Greyhounds’ first play of their overtime possession. ...