Stories from Thursday, December 13, 2012

The 5th annual Via Christi Home Medical Gorilla Invitational Wheelchair Basketball Tournament will be held Friday and Saturday at the Student Recreation Center and Kansas National Guard Armory at Pittsburg State University. The tournament will include six teams from four Midwestern states and will feature competitive basketball action...

ST. PAUL -- St. Paul's basketball teams claimed both ends of a Three Rivers League basketball doubleheader here Tuesday night. The Indian girls took a 66-39 win while St. Paul's boys came away with a 71-51 victory. Tuck and Phillips scored 13 points each for St. Paul (1-0 TRL, 4-1 overall) while Albertini added 11...

OVERLAND PARK -- Fort Scott Community College's basketball teams were swept by host Johnson County here Tuesday night in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play. Fort Scott's women fell to the then-No. 1-ranked Cavaliers, 80-39. Greyhound men lost to the Cavaliers, 69-54. Once 5-2, Fort Scott has lost four of its last five...

The Bourbon County 4-H Shooting Sports Club will hold a fundraiser Saturday to raise money for more equipment the group needs due to the addition of several new members. Club members will be selling biscuits and gravy from 8 to 10 a.m. in the parking lot of Tractor Supply Company, 2420 S. ...

UNIONTOWN -- USD 235 Superintendent Randy Rockhold said administrators and members of the school board want to make sure that fifth- through eighth-grade students in his district have proven mastery of their subjects before the district advances them to the next level...

Travis Shelton didn't always want to be a police officer, but it's a profession he's become accustomed to and grown to love over the last 16 years. Shelton, a lieutenant with the Fort Scott Police Department for 10 years, was recently promoted to interim police chief. The police chief's post has been vacant since the resignation of former chief Ron Puterbaugh in July. Shelton will also receive a pay hike along with the boost in rank...

UNIONTOWN -- If Principal Tracy Smith had his way, it's likely each child at West Bourbon Elementary would be able to attend the school's annual Big Bash Party, an event put on by Fundraising Works, the company that supplies the product for the school's annual fundraising efforts...

100 YEARS AGO (1912) One of the largest and most elegant parties of the week was the one o'clock luncheon given by Mrs. George E. Ware, Mrs. F.E. Milligan, Mrs. F.M. Penniman and Mrs. F.A. Tallman at the residence of Mrs. Ware on North Eddy Street. The theme was appropriate the Christmas season. The hostesses were assisted by Mesdames G.R. Hughes, I.D. Lesher, L.E. Glunz, Charles B. Grant and the Misses Mary Ware and Julia Kennedy...

Kenneth Dewayne Pergeson, 39, Elsmore, Kan., was arrested by the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office at 9:38 p.m. Tuesday on a warrant out of Shawnee County for failure to appear, a warrant out of Allen County for driving while suspended, liability insurance required, unlawful acts, failure to give notice of an accident, and report of accident involving damage. ...

Barend and Jill Jones, and sibling Brendan Cole Jones, of Schell City, Mo., are proud to announce the birth of their son and brother, Rylan Dawson Jones, at 7:25 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott. He weighed 6 pounds, 8 1/2 ounces at birth...

Wallace Alton Ingram, age 80, former resident of Fort Scott, and more recently of Haines City, Fla., died Oct. 20, 2012, in Haines City. He married Ruby Richardson on April 25, 1986, in Winfield, Kan. She survives of the home. Wally was the former chamber manager in Fort Scott in the 1980s...

Alberta Helen Cook, age 84, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died early Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, at Mercy Hospital. She was born in Fort Scott on Sept. 8, 1928, along with a twin brother, Albert, to parents Albert Hugh and Jessie May Johnson. On Sept. ...

Have you ever passed a penny on the ground because you felt it wasn't worth enough to use the energy to pick it up? The stark reality is that to some pennies matter. When pennies are pooled with other donors' dollars, it's a step to making a difference right locally, a news release said...

Warranty Deeds Grantor: Charles D. Goff, Fort Scott-Block 66, Lots/Units: 4, Grantee: Bob D. Williams, Lois M. Williams Grantor: Ronald D. Parks, Susan G. Parks, Sec: 20, Twp: 25; Range: 24-NW qtr/Qtr(s) of the SW quarter less PT, Grantee: James R. Chapman, Sara A. Chapman...

12/05/2012, 06:38:40, 417 S Little St., Medical assist, assist EMS 12/06/2012, 08:10:34 2401 Horton St., 311 Medical assist, assist EMS 12/04/2012 08:21:38 201 N Caldwell St., 311 Medical assist, assist EMS 12/06/2012 09:01:00 16 S. Eddy St., 412 Gas leak (natural gas)...

An item in the Dec. 11 Municipal Court report naming Mary B. Fountain Shankel has been resolved.

There are times in everyone's journey on this planet when it is time to "shift gears" and take a slightly different "fork in the road." That could be changing jobs, getting married, going back to school, or many others. One of those times is coming up soon for Cheryl Bennett who has been the Bourbon County Conservation District Manager since 2000. ...

Fashion may not be foremost on the minds of most people when dressing for outdoor farm chores, but proper clothing is an important component of farm safety. As temperatures drop in the fall, we automatically reach for warmer clothing and more layers. When dressing for cold weather chores, it's important to think safety first...

MANHATTAN -- Darrell and Kathleen Monfort of Iola were honored as Kansas Farm Bureau Farm Family of the Year for Farm Bureau's third geographic district. The Monforts received their award during Kansas Farm Bureau's 94th Annual Meeting in Manhattan on Dec. ...

Veterans affairs, national security, Americanism and children and youth -- the four pillars the American Legion was founded on -- were the focus of National Vice Commander of the Midwest Region Glenn Hickman's presentation Tuesday. As part of a 20-post, four-day tour, Hickman stopped at American Legion Post 25 in Fort Scott, meeting with about 22 people in the American Legion Room at Memorial Hall...