Stories from Saturday, July 27, 2013

Elinor M. Woellhof, age 83 of Miltonvale, Kan., died Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at her home. She was born on July 27, 1929 in Charles City, Iowa, the daughter of Walter H. and Ida V. (Folmer) Titus. Elinor had a wonderful childhood as a preacher's daughter. ...

Bourbon County Commissioners had a full slate of business on Friday, mostly dealing with the after effects of the April 7 hail storm. One issue is the lack of interest in bidders to replace the roof on the county buildings damaged in that storm. "No bids came on the roof with advertising," David Neville, custodial supervisor for the county told the commissioners...

The potential rehabilitation of a downtown building will be the focus of a special meeting of the Fort Scott City Commission Monday at City Hall. The commission plans to conduct a meeting for the purpose of a public hearing regarding the possible rehab of a building located at 7 N. Main St., currently owned by Bill Michaud. The meeting and public hearing is scheduled to take place at 5 p.m. Monday in the City Commission Meeting Room, 123 S. Main St...

Several artists and musicians had an opportunity to display their talent during the first "Arts off the Junction" Art Crawl Friday evening on downtown Main Street.

IOLA -- Fort Scott avenged an earlier loss in the American Legion AA Zone 3 Tournament in its first game Thursday night. But Iola Post 15 dominated Post 25 in the championship game and will go on to represent Zone 3 at the American Legion AA State Tournament at Pratt beginning Wednesday...

WICHITA -- The top five finishers in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College football standings were picked to finish in the same places in the pre-season coaches' poll released here Friday at the KJCCC Football Media Conference. This means that Butler, Hutchinson, Coffeyville, Garden City and Fort Scott are picked to finish in that order from first through fifth places, the spots where each one finished last season...