Stories from Thursday, June 7, 2007

While she may not have experience working in the tourism industry, new Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce Tourism Director Katie Casper said that working to promote her hometown is the ideal place for her right now. "I discovered public relations is where I should be, connecting with the community," Casper said during an interview Tuesday in her new office at the FSACC Visitor Information Center...

Just like so many other things, prevention is the cheapest and safest method of controlling stored grain pests. To prevent losses from insects, growers should implement a pest management plan into their program. This plan should involve sanitation of bins and harvest equipment, proper equipment adjustments, cleaning of grain, control of temperature and moisture, and periodic monitoring...

Fire departments in Bourbon County Rural Fire District No. 3 are leading the pack in this county when it comes to being prepared for an unexpected disaster or emergency. About 60 rural volunteer firefighters in Bourbon County Rural Fire District No. ...

Fort Scott City Commission members on Tuesday agreed to form a committee that would help them decide on what direction to take in regard to a new city hall facility. Members of the committee have not yet been selected. Mayor Dick Hedges suggested that each of the commissioners choose a Fort Scott resident they would nominate and then bring that person's name to the next commission meeting...

Shirley Ann Lalman Foster, age 65, formerly a resident of Paola, Kansas and currently of Blue Mound, Kan., passed away June 4, 2007, at her home from cancer. Funeral services for Shirley Ann Lalman Foster will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 8, 2007, at the Pearl Street Baptist Church, Paola...

Robert Gordon Jones, 79, of Marblecrest Drive, Fort Scott, died Tuesday evening May 29, 2007, at his home. He was born July 15, 1927 in Uniontown, Kan., the son of Carme Edgar and Lois Leona (Brown) Jones. He married Nona Katheryn Warren on February 10, 1946. She preceded him in death on November 17, 2002...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) The Board of Education approved the following salaries for next year: Principals--High School, J.B. Stokesberry $1,500; Central School, John Hughes $810; Eddy School, Gabariella Pratt 675; Bell School, Isa Green $675; Ivy School, William Darling $675; Margrave School, Lucy A. Ware $ 675; Wilson School, Mary D. Stevens $675; Main Street School, Grace Redfield $675; Plaza School, E.J. Hawkins $675...

Standings compiled by the Associated Press.

Farm News By Doug Niemeir U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency County Executive Director If my count is complete and includes all proposals, a crop disaster program for 2005 and 2006 crops was defeated in the Congress a total of five times. However, when the "US Troops Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act" was signed into law on May 24, an appropriation was included for crop and livestock disaster programs...