Children

Red Cross recognizes youngster for aiding family after accident (05/02/08)
A 9-year-old girl has been credited with taking swift action in helping her family following a car accident. Around 8:30 p.m. April 12, Sammie Poyner, a third grader at Winfield Scott Elementary, was riding in the passenger seat of a Chevrolet Corvette driven by her dad, David Gonzales. Heston Poyner, Sammie's 8 year-old brother, was riding in the back seat...

'Getting to know' SRS may help those in need (05/02/08)
Area residents who find themselves in need may be able to access help through a local organization. At 1 p.m. on April 22, employees from the Social and Rehabilitation Services Southeast Kansas Region addressed about 35 area residents, who gathered at the Fort Scott Housing Authority to discover what services the local SRS can offer those in need...

Class 4A Regional Tennis Tournament (05/01/08)
Class 4A Regional Tennis Tournament Hosted by Fort Scott High School Thursday, 10 a.m., FSHS and city pool courts Teams in the field: Fort Scott, Chanute, Iola, Ottawa and Parsons. Schedule: First-round play is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ...

NHS students work to maintain high standards (05/01/08)
For a group of local high school students attaining good grades in school is not enough. Daily, these students stand up to the challenge of showing good citizenship and exemplifying good character. Fort Scott High School's National Honor Society students have worked diligently this year in order maintain a standard of excellence, according to NHS student Dana Ballou. This standard of excellence includes achieving good grades and setting a good behavior example for the other students...

Program to help youngsters become safer (05/01/08)
An upcoming educational program will soon give local youngsters the chance to become safer, healthier and more productive citizens. The 13th Annual Kids Day America/International, a health, safety and environmental awareness day designed to benefit children and their families, will take place in thousands of cities worldwide at the same time on the same day. ...

Sibling duo takes first at history competition (04/29/08)
While many actors and actresses long to make it to Broadway or Hollywood, two groups of local thespians and one writer only wish to make it to Maryland this summer. Groups of students from Fort Scott High School and Fort Scott Christian Heights competed and...

Bronson Days opens May 24 with new "What's Your Talent?" theme (04/29/08)
BRONSON -- A long-standing Bronson tradition will continue next month with the arrival of the 36th Annual Bronson Day event. The annual celebration, which is sponsored and organized by several groups and organizations in the Bronson area, is scheduled to take...

Baseball at Nevada cancelled (04/25/08)
Fort Scott High School's baseball games this afternoon (Friday) at Nevada have been cancelled, according to an e-mail sent this afternoon by FSHS Athletic Director Larry Fink. There was to have been one varsity and one junior varsity game. Also, the JV baseball tournament at Girard scheduled for Saturday morning has also been cancelled. The Fort Scott JV was entered...

Fundraiser for Uniontown High school student (04/25/08)
There will be a lunch fundraiser to help Breanna Esslinger and family with medical expenses. Breanna recently was ill with double pneumonia and this fundraiser is to help her family with medical expenses incurred while she had a lengthy hospital stay and surgery...

JV tennis plays for final time in '08 (04/24/08)
PARSONS -- Fort Scott High's junior varsity tennis team took part in its final tournament of the season here Monday, an eight-team bracket-format tournament hosted by Labette County High School. Both doubles teams posted 2-2 records on the day. The No. ...

Uniontown students set to visit internationally known WWII luminary (04/24/08)
Nine years after starting their project to find an unsung hero, Norm Conard and a group of former Uniontown High School students are returning to visit the person who inspired that project. Conard, the director of the Lowell Milken Center, and the students will travel to Warsaw, Poland next week to visit Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who rescued 2,500 children from Nazi Germans during World War II. ...

Bourbon County man receives max sentence for sex crime (04/22/08)
Nathan E. Goodwin was sentenced Monday to 11 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 15 year old girl. Bourbon County District Judge Mark Ward handed down the maximum or "aggravated" sentence on Goodwin on two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, severity level three felonies. Ward sentenced him to 71 months on the first count and 61 months on the second. The sentences will be served consecutively or back to back...

Bourbon County Unit of Retired school personnel (03/19/08)
The Bourbon County Unit of Retired School Personnel met March 8, 2008. The High School building was locked, so the group went to the Southern Baptist Church. Marge Stringer opened the church and made coffee. The social committee, Winifred Daly and Wayne Stringer furnished donuts...