Stories from Wednesday, November 22, 2006

The TV listing from Thursday will be printed in the Friday, Nov. 24 edition of the Fort Scott Tribune, due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

The Fort Scott City Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to release $23,500 to the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce for upgrades to its Web site and visitor information center in hopes the improvements will lead to increases in tourists staying overnight, producing more transient guest tax dollars...

The 4th annual Christmas in the Park is part of a week of festivities planned to get Bourbon County residents into the spirit this holiday season. Just four days after the annual Christmas parade in downtown Fort Scott, the event, planned by the Gunn Park Committee, is scheduled to take place from 6 to 9 p.m. ...

Two days before Thanksgiving, two families can thank Fort Scott police and Woods Supermarket for their meal this Thursday. Four FSPD officers and Denny Hensley, the supermarket's manager, on Tuesday hand-delivered turkeys plus canned food items to pre-selected needy families in Fort Scott...

Dale Bunn has become the city's new director of economic development after being introduced by Tuesday's commission meeting, bringing with him experience in the public and private sector. He will start work on Dec. 1. "This opportunity is the best choice of several for which I have been fortunate to be considered," Bunn said in a written statement. ...

Albert Mark Oskee, age 77, a former resident of Fort Scott and the West Liberty area, died Monday, November 20, 2006, at the Christian Health Center in Nevada, Missouri. He was born November 21, 1928, in Leavenworth, Kansas, the son of Mark Butler Oskee and Olive Pearl Roweth Oskee. ...

Carolyn Sue Haulcy, age 55, resident of Fort Scott, died Monday, November 20, 2006, at the Mercy Health Center. She was born January 24, 1951, in Amarillo, Texas, the daughter of Buddy Lee Harris and Hulene Phillips Harris. She worked as a nurse for many years and was a member of the United Missionary Baptist Church in Fort Scott. ...

CHIPMAN -- Michael Walker Chipman, a boy, was born at 11:39 a.m. on Monday, November 20, 2006 at Mercy Health Center to parents Mike and Katie Chipman, Fort Scott. He weighed 8 pounds 10 ounces at birth. He joins one sibling Karlie Reagan Chipman. Maternal grandparents are Norman and Laura Nation, Clarence and Kathy Nation, and Richard and Joyce Kerley, all of Fort Scott. Paternal grandparents are James and Peggy Chipman, Siloam Springs, Arkansas and Frank and Fledia Acuff, Willard, Missouri...