Stories from Thursday, April 2, 2009

Spaghetti will be on the menu next month during the Fort Scott Rotary Club's most important fundraiser of the year. The Fort Scott Rotary Spaghetti Feed, scheduled to take place from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 16, at the Scottish Rite Temple, 110 S. ...

The Bourbon County Relay for Life organization has announced a series of upcoming fundraisers for its 2009 campaign. Several Relay for Life teams will be present throughout the community over the next month as team members try to raise money for the local chapter's "Retro Relay" campaign. Relay for Life events are designed to raise money for the American Cancer Society and its services...

Fort Scott Community College held the 28th annual Aggie Days competition on March 27. Over 1400 students competed, representing over 100 schools and a few 4-H chapters. Participants included grade school through high school students. In each category, the top ten individuals and top three teams received either a medal or plaque. All awards were donated by Key Industries. The top three teams and individuals for each category are listed below...

Representatives from the Kansas Small Business Development Center (KSBDC) at Pittsburg State University will be in Fort Scott Thursday, April 23 for free individual counseling sessions from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. The sessions will be held at the Fort Scott Community College, Administration Building, Board of Trustee's Room 2108 S. Horton, at selected times during the year. Please contact the KSBDC at PSU (620) 235-4921) for future dates and times...

A group of students from Fort Scott Christian Heights recently spent some time in the trenches of World War I. According to FSCH student Madyson McColm, a trip to the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Mo. on Friday helped to instill within the students a greater awareness of World War I...

The Fort Scott National Historic Site is working on a long-range interpretive planning program. A meeting was held at the FSNHS, March 23-26, to generate ideas for the 10-year plan of how to improve the site. "We're Developing a plan for our interpretive planning program for the next 10 years," Kelley Collins, FSNHS Chief Park Ranger said...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Fort Scott Community College's baseball team was unable to play its scheduled Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader against Kansas City Kansas here Thursday due to rain. A make-up date has not yet been announced. The Greyhounds are scheduled to host Coffeyville at 1 p.m. Friday and Allen County at 1 p.m. Saturday. Both outings are Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division twinbills...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School senior Paul Norris has been added to the boys' roster for Sunday's 2009 U.S. Army SEK All-Star Game on Sunday at the St. Mary's-Colgan Fieldhouse in Pittsburg. In an earlier release, the organizers for the games had confirmed that inclusion of Fort Scott's Alex Barner on the boys' roster and Kori Page Rienbolt on the girls' roster...

OVERLAND PARK -- Fort Scott Community College's softball team swept Johnson County here Wednesday by scores of 8-4 and 2-0 in a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader, breaking a five-game losing streak. It was the first action for the Greyhounds since March 25 and just the second time they've been able to place since participating in the Midwest Juco Classic at Broken Arrow, Okla., back on March 14-15...

Fort Scott High School's track and field team will begin its season this afternoon at the Labette County Invitational in Altamont. The meet features varsity and junior varsity events, which makes for a longer day than usual, thus a 2 p.m. start is necessary...

Bertha Rogers, 80, of Fort Scott passed away Tuesday night March 31, 2009, at the Mercy Health Center. She was born Feb. 6, 1929 in Bourbon County the daughter of Ralph Day and Dolly Bertha (Morrow) Ruby. She married Henry George Ritz February 16, 1953. He preceded her in death Nov. 11, 1961. She later married 'Bud' Vernon Rogers and he preceded her in death June 14, 1989...