Stories from Saturday, October 11, 2014

The Fort Scott Middle School girls' volleyball teams split with Jayhawk Junior High of Mound City on Monday with Nevada Tuesday to wrap up their seasons. The final season records for each team have the seventh-grade A team finishing 8-5, the seventh-grade B team 8-1, the eighth-grade A team going 16-2 and the eighth-grade B team going 7-2...

Fort Scott Middle School's football teams last two scheduled outings have not been played but will be made up, which creates a scenario where the Tigers will play four games at each grade level in 11 days beginning Monday. Monday, FSMS will make up games at Parsons, which was originally scheduled for Oct. 2. Thursday, the Tigers will play already-scheduled games versus Altamont Grade School at Frary Field...

CHANUTE -- The first day of play at the Chanute Class 4A Regional Tennis Tournament was called off Friday due to rain and wet court conditions. Fort Scott High and the other teams will try to get things going this morning at 10 a.m., hoping that a 30-percent chance of rain is highly overestimated...

COFFEYVILLE -- High-school golf's regular season concluded here Tuesday with the sixth and final Southeast Kansas League designated tournament here. Anna Pool and Labette County had already clinched the individual and team titles coming into the tournament but there was still a chance for other individuals to move into All-SEK positions...

MORAN -- Uniontown's football team improved to 2-0 in Eight-Man Division I District 1 play here Friday night with a 54-6 victory over rival Marmaton Valley in a Three Rivers League game. The Eagles (2-0 district, 4-1 TRL, 4-2 overall) are one of only two teams still unbeaten in the district after Marais des Cygnes Valley beat Waverly, 34-26. Uniontown will host MdCV next Friday night with the winner gaining a huge advantage when it comes to possible playoff games...

INDEPENDENCE -- Independence had some of the better offensive numbers in Friday night's Southeast Kansas League battle but Fort Scott High had the numbers that mattered most. Fort Scott's score was better, the most important number of the game. The Tigers took a 22-7 victory over the Bulldogs and improved to 5-1 on the season going into Class 4A District play, which begins next week...

John and Lorna Slater of Hiattville, formerly of Bartlett/Chetopa, Kan., invite you to join them in celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary at a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25. The reception hosted by their children will be held at the Greenbush Community Building, eight miles west of Girard, Kan., on U.S. 47...

Two men were arrested earlier this month in connection with a home invasion and burglary that took place Sept. 28. On that date, at about 4:40 a.m., Fort Scott Police Department officers responded to 730 S. Lowman St., following a report of a burglary in progress. Upon arrival, the homeowner reported she had been awakened by a noise inside her residence and went to investigate...

For Fort Scott Middle School Principal Jim Howard, the new school year couldn't have started any better. Howard, 33, is new in his position as middle school principal after coming from Scott City where he served as principal for the past six years. He is in his 11th year in education and seventh year as a school principal...

It's been a busy but productive school year thus far for new Fort Scott High School Principal Shawn Thomas and his staff and students. "While it has been extremely busy, it has gone well," Thomas said. "FSHS is having a lot of success in the classroom and in all of our activities. It is awesome to get to be a part of that."...

Will Wallis, Bourbon County Emergency Manager, came to the Bourbon County Commission to discuss CodeRED, the county-wide emergency information system that was to be tested Friday at noon for the first time. The system would notify Bourbon County residents for boil water notices, criminal activity, road closures, fires, floods and missing person cases...