Stories from Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Karen K. Keen, age 81, a resident of Overland Park, Kan., passed away at the St. Luke’s Hospice House, Kansas City, Oct. 3, 2023, comforted by her son Jeff and daughter-in-law Lilie Hall. Karen was born in Calhoun, Mo., April 26, 1942, to Dorthy Beryl Rushing and Paul Leaford Savage. ...

The Fort Scott High School Lady Tiger tennis team will send two singles players and one doubles team to the Class 4A State Tennis Tournament Friday and Saturday in Winfield. The Lady Tigers finished in third place with 10 team points in Saturday’s Class 4A regional tournament in Independence. Singles players Abbie Gorman and Bryleigh Hymer, and the doubles team of Kinsley Brown and Cadence Hunziker have qualified for state competition...

Photographs by famed Fort Scott native Gordon Parks were the focus of one of two Lunch and Learn events Friday at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center on the campus of Fort Scott Community College. The event was part of the 20th annual Gordon Parks Celebration Thursday through Saturday...

Fort Scott City Commissioners voted unanimously to contribute $600,000 towards an emergency room to replace services currently being provided by Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg. See the print or online edition of the Tribune for complete story.

During a special meeting Tuesday evening, Bourbon County Commissioners approved contributing $500,000 in county funds towards an Atchison-based health care system’s plan to provide emergency room services in Bourbon County, with some contingencies in place...