Stories from Thursday, January 18, 2007

Two upcoming events in Topeka in February will allow various city and state officials to mingle with state government leaders in an effort to promote Southeast Kansas. Southeast Kansas Day on the Hill is a legislative lobbying event sponsored by 13 regional chambers of commerce and is slated to take place on Feb. ...

UNIONTOWN -- Enrollment in USD 235 has jumped considerably in the last few years, school officials said. A recent head count of kindergarten through 12th grade students in two schools showed enrollment in the district is up to 504 students, even more than the 493 students the district had enrolled four months ago on Sept. 20, 2006, the date each year when school districts across the state are required to submit enrollment reports to the state...

USD 234 is one of 32 school districts in Kansas that have yet to settle contract negotiations, according to a document released by the Kansas Association of School Boards. Contract talks between the school district and negotiators for the Fort Scott Chapter of the Kansas National Education Association (K-NEA) have yet to come to a satisfactory conclusion...

A certified handgun instructor will be conducting classes on Jan. 26 and 27 for people seeking a license to carry a concealed handgun. Roy Hanken, a certified concealed carry handgun instructor, will be teaching the courses starting at 6 p.m. Friday Jan. 26 and 8 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 27 at the Fort Scott Municipal Airport, 932 187th Terrace...

Gordon Lee Miller, age 70, a resident of rural Redfield, passed into eternal life at his home in the company of his wife, Tilli, on Tuesday, January 17, 2007 following a lengthy cancer illness. He was born in Marysville, on August 28,1936, the son of Clarence L. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) The heavy rains and snow have raised every river in this part of the country. The Marmaton River is now at a higher point than it has reached since the floods of three summers ago when Bell Town was practically inundated. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the water was within four feet of the Marmaton bridge, but was at a standstill. ...