Stories from Friday, December 18, 2020

As it does every year, The Beacon helped make Christmas brighter for several Bourbon County families through its annual Adopt-A-Family Christmas program. See the print or online edition of the Tribune for complete story.

Bourbon County Commissioners on Tuesday voted to begin the process for refinancing the county’s 2015 general obligation bonds with a goal of saving money. Greg Vahrenberg, managing director of Raymond James Public Finance, met with commissioners via telephone to discuss the possibility of refinancing the bonds. ...

Seventy volunteers, working in groups of 10 each hour, placed a wreath at each grave site in the cemetery Thursday. The section of cremains is currently having new sod laid. Those sites will also have wreaths placed as soon as the work is completed, Tim Lopez with the U.S. National Cemetery, said...

William Grant Wiggans, age 66, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, at the Via Christi Emergency Room in Fort Scott. He was born Jan. 12, 1954, in Fort Scott, the son of Donald Wesley Wiggans and Betty Bernice Powell Wiggans. He married Amy Minor in 1984. ...

Robert A Underwood, 70, of Bronson, Kan., went to be with the Lord, on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. Bob was born Nov. 3, 1950 in Mapleton, Kan., to Clifford and Wilma (Clayton) Underwood. He was a member of the First Missionary Baptist Church of Uniontown...