Stories from Friday, May 8, 2020

Wanda Audine Larsen, 89, formerly of Fort Scott, passed away Thursday evening, May 7, 2020 at the Ozark Nursing & Care Center in Ozark, Mo. Funeral arrangements for Wanda Larsen are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home...

Mary Barrett Irvin, 99, of Fort Scott, passed away Friday morning, May 8, 2020 at the Presbyterian Village in Fort Scott. Funeral arrangements for Mary Irvin are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

City commissioners had a list of several candidates to choose from Tuesday for three boards, including the new street advisory board. For each board, commissioners were asked to write down their choices, then City Attorney Jeff Deane read each candidate’s name and the commissioners stated yes or no to each one. Deane and City Clerk Diane Clay then tabulated the votes and announced the top vote getters...

Residents in the 500 block of Andrick Street will receive a water and sewer rebate because a street project is taking longer than commissioners believe it should. According to Kevin Allen, the project has been ongoing for eight or nine months. The project involves replacing curbing and guttering to improve drainage and storm water runoff. The work was one of four projects included in a 2019 Road Improvement Program Public Works Director Chad Brown presented the commission in July 2019...

A Springdale, Ark., man was reportedly killed in a one-vehicle accident Thursday night on U.S. Highway 69 in Fort Scott. According to a Kansas Highway Patrol crash log, 58-year-old Hugo Herrera Aguilar sustained fatal injuries in the accident, which occurred about 9:30 p.m. on southbound U.S. 69 north of Third Street...

Jon Lowery went through a horrific experience, and lived to tell the story. In late March, after traveling overseas for a mission trip and battling illness, the 56-year-old longtime paramedic from Fort Scott, tested positive for COVID-19. Lowery was one of the first few confirmed positive cases in Bourbon County, not long after the outbreak began. From the time Lowery’s symptoms began to the time he was discharged from the hospital was about two weeks...