Stories from Wednesday, November 25, 2015

USD 235 Board of Education members held a special meeting Monday evening with the superintendent search advisory committee they have hired. Jan Hedges, interim superintendent, said the district is paying the advisory group $3,000 to assist in the superintendent search...

A Uniontown man was life flighted following a one-vehicle injury accident Monday about one mile south of Fort Scott. A Kansas Highway Patrol crash log said 22-year-old Brandon Weyant was injured in a wreck that took place just after 5:30 p.m. on 215th Street at Irish Road...

Members of the Historic Preservation Association of Bourbon County were given permission Tuesday to proceed with painting the first floor of the courthouse lobby. HPA President Rhonda Dunn and members Lora Holdridge and Shane Walker met with commissioners to report on work that has already been completed and what remains to be done...

Mary Nadine Condos,
84, passed away on Nov. 21 in Castle Rock, Colo., with her family by her side after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. She was born on July 31, 1931 in Fort Scott, Kan., to Leona and Orval Howard. Nadine grew up on a farm where she had fond memories of her one-legged chicken and three-legged pet goat. ...

Hazel Cora Beck, age 88, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died early Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, at the Fort Scott Mercy Hospital. She was born Jan. 24, 1927, in Blue Mound, Kan., the daughter of Harlan Inman and Grace Pickford Inman. Hazel graduated from the Blue Mound High School. ...

Independence won both eighth-grade games against Fort Scott Middle School in girls' basketball action at Buck Run Community Center Monday night. The "B" team lost 16-12. Independence outscored the Tigers 4-0 in the first quarter. Alexis Rusk scored 8 points and had 6 rebounds for Fort Scott. Macayla McClure also had 6 rebounds...

Fort Scott Community College's men rolled past the Westminister College junior varsity at Arnold Arena Monday night, taking a 77-36 win. The Greyhounds improved to 3-7 on the season but two of those wins are over four-year school JVs. The Greyhounds shot 59 percent from the field in the game, making 29 of 49 field-goal attempts. They made nine of their first 10 attempts on their way to taking a 27-8 lead with 10:56 left in the first half...

Thanksgiving has ancient roots. Sukkot, a Jewish holiday, has been celebrated for over 3,300 years in Isreal and was a time of remembering what God has done, reaffirming faith in God and thanking Him for harvest of food, according to jewishpress.com...

With winter weather quickly approaching, the Bourbon County Public Works Department has already begun preparations for a safer winter season. "We start October 1," said Public Works Director Jim Harris. "We get our trucks ready, we get our spreader boxes on, we get our snow plows on and make sure everything is operational."...

Dorothy E. Squire, formerly of Olathe, passed away on Nov. 24, 2015 at Medicalodges of Fort Scott, Kan. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, 11 a.m. at First Baptist Church of Olathe, Olathe, Kan., where the family will receive friends an hour prior to service time. Burial will follow in the Olathe Memorial Cemetery...

Fort Scott, located at the north end of the city's Main Street, was established in 1842 and has morphed several times until becoming a part of the America's National Park Service (NPS) in 1979. Although people who lived at the fort in its beginning are gone, there might be people alive who have an interesting story about the fort that they would be willing to share publicly...

City of Fort Scott street crews are ready for whatever the winter season has in store. Street and Traffic Supervisor Chad Brown said his seven-man crew and equipment have already begun preparing for winter and are ready for any type of winter weather event...

Fort Scott is beginning to look a little more like Christmas every day, as preparations are underway for special holiday events. The annual Christmas parade and Mayor's Christmas Tree lighting will be held Tuesday and the annual Homes for the Holidays Tour is set for Dec. 4-6...