Stories from Thursday, April 6, 2023

Richard L. “Rick” Nation, age 54, resident of Fort Scott, KS, died Wednesday, April 5, 2023, at Menorah Medical Center, Overland Park, KS. Services for Rick Nation will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main.

This is the first of a two-part report Representatives of several Bourbon County entities shared information on current happenings, as well as challenges and plans for the future during a panel event Wednesday at the Empress Event Center. Attending the Community Connections panel were Fort Scott City Manager Brad Matkin, Bourbon County Commission Chairman Jim Harris, Fort Scott Community College Vice President of Academic Affairs Adam Borth, USD 234 Superintendent Destry Brown, USD 235 Associate Superintendent Vance Eden, and Bourbon County Regional Economic Development, Inc. ...

Several seats on city commissions and councils, as well as school boards in Bourbon County, will be up for election in 2023. Bourbon County Clerk Jennifer Hawkins said currently, not enough candidates have filed for a primary election, but as the deadline to file for the election is June 1, “we could potentially have a primary election in August.” The general election will be Nov. 7...

Bourbon County Commissioners on Thursday approved a resolution proclaiming a state of local disaster for Bourbon County, with hopes of getting federal funding if the county meets a certain threshold. Commissioners talked with Chief Operations Officer Shane Walker and Public Works Director Eric Bailey about wind and rain storms that have impacted the county within the last week. Portions of the county sustained damage from high winds that blew through early Wednesday morning...

The Fort Scott Tiger varsity baseball team finished the first day of the Adam LaRoche Varsity Baseball Tournament at 1-1, taking a 6-4 win over the Tonganoxie Chieftains in game one before dropping the final game of the day to the Blue Valley North Mustangs, 12-4...

Fort Scott High School’s boys tennis team finished third at the Independence Invitational March 31, and second at a Chanute quad on Tuesday. The Tigers scored seven team points in Independence to finish behind Independence in first with 15 points and Chanute in second with 13 points...