Stories from Friday, May 28, 2010

The Midwest Athletics are going out with a bang during their final season together as a team. With high school just around the corner, their final youth season will soon be at an end. Although most of the team is from Nevada, there are three players from Fort Scott: Clayton Hixon, Jacob Durossette and Zach Denton...

Fort Scott Community College has been working for over seven months on a plan to bring a synthetic turf field to Fort Scott. Through considerable support and cooperation from the FSCC Board of Trustees and the community of Fort Scott, this project is now under way...

On June 12, during the 14th annual Echoes of the Trail Cowboy Gathering, organizers will be giving out six cash prizes in two categories to the fifth and sixth grade students whose poems were judged the best out of over 100 submissions. Students at Eugene Ware Elementary School and Winfield Scott Elementary School as well as schools from Pleasanton and Sheldon, Mo. ...

Memorial Day is a time to reflect upon soldiers who gave their lives for their country. There is perhaps no better place to do that than at a military fort where soldiers served. This Memorial Day Weekend, the public is invited to visit Fort Scott National Historic Site and learn more about crucial events of the mid-1800s that helped shape our national character...

Bennie Curtis Culbertson, 81, of Fort Scott, died Thursday morning, May 27, 2010 at his home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Funeral Home.

On May 27, 1863; "Death", one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, galloped into Fort Scott for it's second visit to the largest "Union" military complex in southeast Kansas. On this visit in May of 1863, "Death" claimed the life of Sgt. Claudeus Columbus Frizell who served with a Missouri Militia Regiment...

I am running a similar series here in Central Wisconsin. The following story was in my column here. I found it quite interesting; thought you all might enjoy it too. The story for our series this week is written by Mary Nevinski Fredette of Vesper, Wisc.:...

It was a nice day and a lovely evening for the senior swinger dance Monday night. We have been very fortunate to have a nice evening and our dance was good. We haven't had any bad weaher this week and our turnout was better than usual. The count hasn't been the best but we are gaining back again...

Mr. Beckham, our principal, had been stressing this day's importance since last September, and now it was here. The national accreditation team was coming to Fort Scott High School to determine if we were "on a path of continuous improvement." Everything would be scrutinized...teachers, counselors, students, parents, the Board of Education. ...

St. Mary's School's parent's association is happy to announce that this year's Mega-Garage Sale will still take place, but even happier to announce that the sale will not be interrupted by rain. The sale, scheduled for June 11 and 12, will take place rain or shine inside St. Mary's Kennedy Gym beginning at 6:30 a.m. Biscuits and gravy, hotdogs, and drinks will be sold. All proceeds will benefit St. Mary's School...

BURTON -- Jason and Toni Burton, Fort Scott, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Gabrielle Kathleen Burton. Gabrielle was born at 9:38 p.m., Saturday, April 24, 2010, at Overland Park Regional Medical Center in Overland Park. She weighed 3 pounds, 5 ounces and was 17.25 inches at birth...