Stories from Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Kinley Rice was the special musical guest during a Gospel concert Saturday evening at Memorial Hall on 1 E. 3rd St. The event included skits which featured the cast of Kelly's Kountry Junction TV show. In addition, the First Church of the Nazarene Worship Band performed...

Walnut trees growing at the Bourbon County Landfill will be available for logging after commissioners decide on bid specifications for the project. On Monday, the commissioners met with Dale Bollinger who asked if he could cut the trees for logs. "There's about 15 trees out there. I was just wondering if you'd be interested in selling those," he said...

A white flowering tree frames Old Glory against a clear blue sky Monday at Fort Scott Community College. Spring has arrived in Bourbon County, with numerous trees in bloom. This week's weather also is expected to be spring-like, with high temperatures peaking in the lower 70s and plenty of sunshine...

Edna Mae Allen, age 79, formerly of Mound City, Kan., passed away on Friday April 4, 2014. Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Mound City Chapel. Burial will be in the Wesley Chapel Cemetery. ...

Helen L. Mihalakis Fields, age 85, a former resident of rural Bronaugh, Mo., more recently of Nevada, Mo., died Friday, April 4, 2014, at the Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada, Mo. She was born Aug. 26, 1928, on the Greek island of Crete. In her early life, Helen endured many horrible tragedies. ...

Charles Robert "Charlie" Baird, 66, of Fort Scott, passed away at his home Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. He was born Feb. 18, 1947 in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Charles George and Buena Carolyn (Warren) Baird. Charlie is survived by his long-time companion, Carolyn Amer Wilson; his mother, Buena; three sisters, Peggy Fisher of Fort Scott, Rhonda Culp of Fort Worth, Texas, and Carol Hunziker, of Fort Scott; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father...

Grace Priscilla Hendrix, 89, of Fort Scott, died Friday morning, April 4, 2014 at the Guest Home Estates. She was born Sept. 13, 1924 in Hickoryridge, Ark., the fourth of five children born to Herman Oscar and Lydia Pricilla (Bollinger) Conrad. She married Lloyd E. Hendrix, Sr. in 1947. He preceded her in death in 1962...

ST. PAUL -- Uniontown's baseball and softball teams both swept St. Paul here Thursday in Three Rivers League doubleheaders. The Eagle baseball squad got its first wins of the season, beating the Indians 8-7 and 17-6. Uniontown was leading the first game 8-0. But although Broderick Glessner had pitched six scoreless innings, he began to struggle in the seventh...

Fort Scott Community College's softball team was swept in a pair of doubleheaders on the road Friday and Saturday. Friday, Brown Mackie won a pair of one-run games in Salina, the first 13-12 in eight innings, the second 9-8. Saturday at Concordia, 16th-ranked Cloud County swept the Greyhounds, 6-2 and 8-4...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott and Labette split a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader here Saturday while Highland was swept by last-place Allen, putting the Greyhounds in a tie with Highland for seventh place in the division with Labette and Allen tied for ninth one game behind...

ALTAMONT -- While the Fort Scott High School varsity track teams did not enter a lot of athletes in the season-opening Labette County here Friday, the junior varsity boys team won their division of the meet and collected 16 medals and the girls picked up 13 medals in finishing third...

Jenell Lynn Cruz, age 50, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Monday, April 7, 2014, at her home in Fort Scott. She was born Nov. 24, 1963, in Kansas City, Kan., the daughter of Jim Shoemaker and Betty Brown Shoemaker. She first married Donald Dean McQueen, Jr. ...