Stories from Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Donna Marie Watts, age 78, Pleasanton, Kan., passed away on Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 at the Olathe Medical Center. Funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Pleasanton Chapel. Burial will be in the Pleasanton Cemetery. ...

Patricia J. Reppert, age 85, Mound City, Kan., passed away on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 at the Sacred Heart Church, Mound City. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Rosary will be prayed 5:30 p.m. ...

Alan R. Leach, age 55, passed away Tuesday, Jan.6, 2015 at Southwest Christian Hospice in Union City, Ga., after an extended illness. Alan was born the son of Wilma and Adin Leach, on Jan. 22, 1959 in Coffeyville, Kans. He attended St. Andrews Catholic School in Independence, Kans. and high school at St. Henry's Preparatory Seminary in Belleville, Ill. Alan was a graduate of Creighton University with a BA in philosophy...

James Eugene Evans, age 82, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, at Guest Home Estates. He was born July 29, 1932, in Fort Scott, the son of Samuel and Mable Brown Evans. He married Darlene Clark in 1955. She preceded him in death. ...

One of the final pieces of business Allen Warren discussed Monday as the Bourbon County Commission chairman was the costs involved in the county's two existing rock quarries and a potential third quarry. An agreement to open a third quarry on the Gene Bailey property in the southern area of the county is ready for Bailey's signature. Public Works Director Jim Harris said after Bailey signs, the agreement will come back for the commissioners' signatures...

Members of the USD 234 Board of Education and school district administration voiced their feelings Monday night on a potentially dangerous situation the district encountered Jan. 5. On their first day back from the holiday break Jan. 5, Fort Scott High School staff received a threatening e-mail message which Fort Scott Police Chief Travis Shelton said "was conveyed to cause alarm to personnel and students" in the district. ...

County officials who were elected during the November General Election were sworn in Monday morning in the second floor lobby of the Bourbon County Courthouse. Sixth Judicial District Judge Mark Ward presided over the ceremony, which was followed by a brief reception...

MORAN -- Uniontown Junior High's basketball teams resumed play Thursday at Marmaton Valley with the seventh-grade girls claiming a 21-19 win. Lauren Shinn scored 6 points to lead the Eagles while Sivannah McAnulty added 5. The eighth-grade girls fell to Marmaton Valley, 24-22. Anna Jefferis scored 10 points for the Eagles...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott Middle School's boys' basketball teams opened their seasons here Thursday with games against Pittsburg Community Middle School. The seventh-grade teams swept the Purple Dragons while the Pittsburg eighth-grade teams posted a sweep of the Tigers...

COFFEYVILLE -- Caletria Curtis more than doubled her scoring average as she led Coffeyville's women to a 71-56 win over Fort Scott Community College in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play here Saturday evening. Curtis, who averages about 10 points a game, scored 21 Saturday and also had 12 rebounds...

COFFEYVILLE -- Fort Scott Community College's men outscored Coffeyville 46-37 in the second half here Saturday night but the rally was not enough as the Red Ravens held on for a 74-67 victory. The Greyhounds lost for the sixth consecutive outing although this was their first game since December 13. ...

BONNER SPRINGS -- Zarek Fewell won the 138-pound bracket and two other Tigers won medals as Fort Scott High's wrestling team finished seventh out of 12 teams at the Dick Burns Mat Classic hosted by Bonner Springs High School here Saturday. Seventh out of 12 may not sound like a big deal but the Tigers scored 54 points with just five wrestlers...

Carmen Jean Pettibon, 69, Nevada, Mo., passed from this life on Monday, Jan. 12, 2015 at her home in Nevada following a lengthy illness. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 at Ferry Funeral Home in Nevada. Interment will follow in Deerfield Cemetery, Deerfield, Mo. ...

Jo Lanel Cuppy, age 50, died at her home in Bronson early Saturday morning, Jan. 10, 2015, after a long battle with cancer. She was born Sept. 12, 1964, in Fort Scott, the daughter of Nelda K. Rudisill Cuppy and A. Gary Cuppy. She is survived by her husband Walter Palmisano, son Seth Cuppy, step-daughter Gina Palmisano, grandson Marcus, mother Nelda Cuppy, step-father Larry Manes, brother Larry Cuppy, niece Cassandra Cuppy, nephew Devon Cuppy, aunts and uncles, and many, many friends...

USD 234 is moving closer toward actual construction on projects in the $40.8 million school bond package that voters approved in November. The board took another step in the process during its Monday meeting. Board members approved the recommendation of a steering committee to select Nabholz Construction Services of Olathe, a commercial construction contractor, as the construction manager at-risk for the proposed school bond projects...

Voters in the Uniontown school district will be asked to support a $2.5 million bond issue. The board of education on Monday night voted to place the bond issue on the April ballot. If passed, the bond would be used to make improvements in the district's two school buildings...