Stories from Thursday, February 21, 2013

Knights of Columbus fish fry canceled The Knights of Columbus Council No. 796 Friday Fish Fry has been canceled for Friday, Jan. 22. They will resume with their fish fries on Friday, March 1 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Kennedy Gymnasium located at 716 S. Eddy St...

SALINA -- The Kansas State High School Activities Association announced Wednesday morning that the start of competition at all three venues for State wrestling competition on Friday will be delayed by a minimum of two hours. This affects Fort Scott High School wrestlers who will be taking part in the Class 4A State Tournament at Salina and Jayhawk-Linn wrestlers competing in the Class 3-2-1A tournament at Hays as well as the Class 6A and Class 5A tournaments at Park City...

Fort Scott Community College's men got a key victory in Region VI Division II Wednesday night as they held off a Johnson County rally to take a 67-63 victory in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play at Arnold Arena. Johnson County's women, moved into the No. 1 spot in the NJCAA Division II poll earlier in the day, scored 19 of the game's first 21 points and went on to cruse to a 58-32 win over the short-handed Greyhound women...

Fort Scott High School's girls, who clinched the Southeast Kansas League title Tuesday night, will be the No. 3 seed in their own Sub-State next week. Sub-State Tournaments, which begin Monday in Classes 4A down through 1A and Feb. 27 for classes 6A and 5A, were seeded Wednesday morning. ...

John Timothy "Tim" Mullane was born on March 28, 1924 at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, Kan. He passed away on Feb 1, 2013 at the Plaza del Rio Care Center in Peoria. Ariz. He was preceded in death by his parents, Timothy J. Mullane and Nellie (Manion) Mullane; four siblings: an infant brother Joseph Manion Mullane, an infant sister Mary Margaret Mullane, Mary Nell Wilkes and Kathleen Gene Mirabito and an infant son, Daniel Joseph Mullane and one great-grandchild, Braelyn Pinto-Wright. ...

February 13. 7:57 a.m., E. Sixth St. and Hulett St., Extrication, rescue, other. 8:20 a.m., 915 Horton, Medical assist, assist EMS. 8:34 a.m., 1901 Arapahoe, Emergency medical service. 8:34 a.m., 1901 Arapahoe, Medical assist, assist EMS. 9:48 a.m., 20 N. Grant, Medical assist, assist EMS...

Neptalee Casey Spaulding, 25 year-old male, Fort Scott, was arrested by the BCDC for a Bourbon County warrant for criminal damage to property and battery and is still being held at this time.

Glenn McKinnis Smith, age 92, resident of Uniontown, Kansas died Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at Mercy Hospital. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main.

Jacquelyn and Dale Snyder, Jr. are pleased to announce the birth of their son, Jake Austin Snyder, at 10:45 p.m. on Feb.19, 2013 at Mercy Hospital. Jake weighed 7 lbs. 15 oz. Maternal grandparents are Sandra and the late Russell Shadden, Arma; great-grandparents are Ed and Dorothy Nelson, Olathe; James Glaze, Harrisonville, Mo. Paternal grandparents are Donna and Dale Snyder, Sr., Fulton; great-grandparents George and Carol Snyder, Fulton; and Carl and Joan Seaver, Fort Scott...

Nathan B. and Latisha S. Hicks are pleased to announce the birth of their son, Carter Eugene Hicks, at 10:15 a.m. on 20 2013 at Mercy Hospital. Jake weighed 6 lbs. 10 oz. He joins siblings Teddy, Mena and Sylar. Maternal grandparents are Jolene and Kenton Martin, Fort Scott. Paternal grandparents are Jesse Hicks , Fort Scott, and Valetta Kerr, Fort Scott...

PITTSBURG -- The American Red Cross service center here desires that all households are prepared to face any disaster, including winter storms. "Each household needs to be ready to face the initial stages of a disaster by learning about the possible results and taking steps to meet their own needs as much as possible," according to Pam Gilchrist, Pittsburg Service Center Manager...

America's vast food supply is being celebrated this week by the Bourbon County Farm Bureau and other Farm Bureau members across the U.S. Food Check-Out Week, which is observed through Saturday, originally started as Food Check-Out Day when it began about 15 years ago. The purpose of the celebration is to highlight America's safe, abundant and affordable food supply, made possible largely by the country's productive farmers and ranchers, a news release said...

The Fort Scott Community College theater department has a pleasant surprise this weekend for both children and nostalgic adults alike as it presents it's musical production of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," which opens to the general public tonight at 7:30 at the Ellis Fine Arts Center...

Bourbon County Commissioners met Wednesday this week because of no meeting on President's Day Monday and announced that they have sent a revised bill to Chain Electric for $8,250 for gravel they said was taken from windrows by the Heartland Electric subcontractor last September...

Bourbon County Commissioners suspended their meeting a bit early Wednesday to tour Elm Creek Lake and assess what repairs or improvements they might undertake to make the recreational area more attractive to visitors and also to see what they might be able to do to preserve some of the historic structures that were built in the mid-1930s by the Work Progress Administration as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal...