Stories from Friday, January 26, 2024

The presidential election in Kansas will look a little different this year. During Tuesday’s Bourbon County Commission meeting, County Clerk Jennifer Hawkins talked to commissioners about the Presidential Preference Primary, which, according to the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office, “is an election where the vote totals are given to a political party to allocate delegates to candidates at the national convention.”...

Note: This is the first article in a two-part series on a Community Conversation that took place Wednesday at Fort Scott Community College. The public learned about the financial status of Fort Scott Community College during a Community Conversation Wednesday evening in the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center on the college campus...

Johny Lee Vaughn, age 78, Leawood, Kan., formerly of Mound City, Kan., passed away Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024.  He was born in Mound City, Kan., on May 14, 1945, the son of Marion and Edna Paddock Vaughn. He graduated from Mound City High School in the Class of 1963. He then attended Fort Scott Community College. ...

Linda Kay May, age 72, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died unexpectedly Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, at Freeman West Hospital, Joplin, Mo. She was born Aug. 29, 1951, in Fort Scott, the daughter of William and Marilyn Hurd Fowler. She graduated from FSHS with the class of 1969. ...