Stories from Tuesday, August 4, 2020

The Fort Scott City Commission meeting scheduled for 6 p.m. tonight will not be held in public due to an outbreak in coronavirus at City Hall, a city news release said Tuesday. Citizens can call (620) 724-9910 and use participant code 515698# to listen to the meeting, which will be held through phone conferencing...

The USD 234 Board of Education will conduct a special board meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the gymnasium at Fort Scott High School. There will be two items on the meeting agenda; a public forum to give district stakeholders the opportunity to provide comments to the school board, and a follow-up discussion from the board’s special meeting on July 27 regarding the district’s return to school plan. Each member of the public will be given three minutes to address the board...

A lack of quorum means the Fort Scott City Commission meeting scheduled for Tuesday evening will be rescheduled. Due to a coronavirus outbreak at City Hall, the meeting was to be held as a conference call and also streamed live on the city’s social media page. The meeting was adjourned before any business took place because one of the three commissioners on the call hung up due to difficulty hearing the discussion...

The Bourbon County Commission will see two new faces in January and several incumbents for county offices will keep their offices, according to unofficial primary election results from the Bourbon County Clerk’s office Tuesday night. See the print or online edition of the Tribune for complete story...