Stories from Thursday, October 28, 2010

The Prescott Country View Nursing Home had a great birthday party on the 18th with a bunch of spooks and ghosts supplying the cakes, treats and entertainment. The UMW from Prescott were the party planners in disguise. We even had spooky music being played on the piano. Thanks so much to the UMW for spending the afternoon with us...

Uniontown Jr./Sr. High School 2010 Quarter One Honor Roll students are listed below. Uniontown Jr. High All A's Honor Roll Megan Blythe, Zachary Davis, Draven George, Gavin Miller, Lindsay Nietfeld, John Reed, Rachel DeMoss, Hannah Fry, Benjamin Labbe, Michaela Nietfeld, and Aleah Sutterby...

Fort Scott High School junior Mallory Shelton was selected as a Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Ambassador. HOBY is the nation's foremost youth leadership development organization. The mission is to inspire and develop our global community of youth and volunteers to a life dedicated to leadership, service and innovation...

National sporting goods retailer Hibbett Sporting Goods Inc., operating as Hibbett Sports, has opened its newest store in Fort Scott. The new store opened at the new South Main Shopping Center, 2400 S. Main St., last Friday and employs about eight full -time and part -time team members...

This has been a different (i.e. unique, atypical) kind of year on the farms and ranches in this area. Following two years when we received perhaps the highest two-year total precipitation on record (my estimate; not researched) with a two-year total of 116 inches of rain, the odds were greatly against us of posting another season with such a favorable rainfall total...

Twigs up to three-feet long are falling now from such trees as the apple, dogwood, elm, honey locust, hackberry, linden, oak, pecan and poplar. The downed twigs look as if a miniature beaver has chewed them off. But the real culprit is a long-horned, gray-brown, barrel-shaped beetle that's popularly known as the twig girdler (Oncideres cingulata), said Ward Upham, horticulturist with Kansas State University Research and Extension. ...

Patricia Ann Pennington, age 84, of Linn Valley, Kan., died Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010 at her home. Services will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, Oct. 29 at the Linn Valley Community Church. Visitation will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday Oct. 28 at Coffel-Schneider Funeral Home LaCygne, Kan., and from 9:30 a.m. to service time Friday at the Church...

Paula J. Isaacson, 60, of Fort Scott, died Monday evening, Oct. 25, 2010 at the Mercy Health Center. She was born Oct. 28, 1949 in Louisville, Ky., the daughter of J. Paul and Betty Jean (Jekel) Wall. She married James Isaacson Jan.18, 1974 in New Albany, Ind. He survives of the home...

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Senior Bryan Hill, son of Robb and Carolyn Hill, West Des Moines, Iowa, and grandson of Bob and Bernita Hill, Fort Scott, is one of eight student-athletes on the University of Iowa swim team to be named to the Captains Council for 2010-2011...

Fort Scott Community College's volleyball team will host "Dig Pink" night as part of in the Side-Out Foundation's Dig Pink National Breast Cancer Awareness Rally at 6:30 p.m. Friday night at Arnold Arena. The Greyhounds will host Cottey College in their final home game of the season. It will also be Sophomore Night. Fans are encouraged to don pink to show support...

Some area football team's chances are as easy as "A beats B" while others are a bit more complicated as high-school and junior-college regular-season play comes to a close over the weekend. Tonight at Garnett, for example, both opponents in the Fort Scott-Anderson County contest already know they've qualified for the Class 4A playoffs. ...

The deadline to file applications for Emergency Disaster (EM) loans for farmers and ranchers in Bourbon County is Nov. 9, according to Robert E. White, farm loan manager for the Farm Service Agency (FSA). White advised those needing farm credit as a result of the severe winter storms and snowstorm Dec. 22, 2009-Jan. 8, 2010 and who think they are eligible for FSA assistance, should make their applications at the FSA County Office, 207 S. Summit in Girard before the expiration date...

The Fort Scott Community College Nursing Department officially opened its human simulation lab as part of a ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday at the Burke Street campus. The Nursing and Allied Health Department's human simulation lab began in 2006 with a Kansas nursing initiative grant award that allowed for the renovation of the second floor of the Burke Street Campus building. This created the space needed for the lab in addition to skills and computer labs...

Jurors considering the fate of a Fort Scott man accused in a sexual abuse case will continue their deliberations at 8:30 a.m. today. The panel got the case at about noon Thursday and adjourned at about 5:30 p.m., Bourbon County Attorney Terri Johnson said. The case against Douglas Page was tried in Bourbon County 6th District Judge Mark Ward's courtroom...

With the Nov. 2 election drawing ever closer, local, state and national Republican candidates made a swing through Fort Scott Thursday as part of the "Voting the Kansas Way Bus Tour." On the bus, which had the slogan "Clean Sweep" on its front, were gubernatorial hopeful and outgoing U.S. ...