Stories from Monday, April 26, 2010

The Fort Scott Community College Jazz Band will present its annual spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center at FSCC, 2108 S. Horton St. The guest artist will be Travis Laver, an area musician who is currently a member of the Crowder Jazz Orchestra. ...

Cassidy Waide is not your typical 5-year-old girl. During her birthday party last month, Waide decided to accept donations in lieu of gifts. With the help of her parents, Waide chose CASA as the charity which would be the recipient of the donations. Invitations were sent to all of Waide's pre-school classmates with note inside requesting a donation rather than gifts. Waide even offered to bring her own piggy bank to make a donation...

Some changes are in the works for the 2010 season of the Fort Scott Farmer's Market. Organizers of the annual market, which opens Saturday at Skubitz Plaza, have changed its schedule in order to be more accommodating to customers. The market will operate from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays, and from 4 to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays throughout the season, which runs through October. The Fort Scott Farmer's Market Association sponsors, organizes and conducts the market each year...

Randall Daly and Reece McKenney, both seniors at Fort Scott High School, recently qualified to compete in the Ford AAA troubleshooting contest. The nationwide contest is open to high school juniors and seniors who are enrolled in automotive technology classes. Only 20 students from Kansas can qualify for the competition...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School tennis coach Lynn Barr took two teams to Pittsburg's junior varsity tournament here Friday and saw those teams take the top two places. Additionally, Fort Scott entries finished first in three divisions and second in three...

Southeast Kansas League leader Labette County swept Fort Scott High School's softball team in a doubleheader at Don Hewett Field Friday night. The Tigers (3-5 SEK, 3-7 overall) saw a rally come up just short in the opener after scoring 3 runs in the bottom of the seventh inning of a 7-6 loss. They committed 12 errors in the nightcap and lost 10-4...

FORT SCOTT -- Paola's (Kan.) boys and Pittsburg's (Kan.) girls were the team champions of the Fort Scott High School Invitational Track and Field Meet at Frary Field Friday night. Paola's boys finished with 151 points to outdistance Pittsburg by 31 points. Carthage, Mo., finished third with 114 points followed by Fort Scott with 64, Labette County, Kan., 44, Nevada 28, Anderson County, Kan., 19 and Parsons, Kan.,16...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. -- Arkansas Tech University Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Steve Mullins officially introduced 1998 Fort Scott High School graduate Doug Karleskint as the Wonder Boys new head men's basketball coach in a news conference here Saturday morning at the Russellville Country Club...