Military Affairs

Drug-Free coordinator thanks community and steps down after nearly 10 years (05/03/08)
By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail The last meeting of the Nevada R-5 Safe and Drug-Free Schools committee chaired by Ranea Schulze started off with tears, but then turned cheerful. Schulze has taken a new position in the library and ceded the responsibility for the drug-free program to new hands...

Parks board pushes to legalize alcohol sales at golf course (05/03/08)
Ralph Pokorny Herald Tribune Even though city ordinances prohibit the sale or consumption of beer at the city golf course, many golfers are believed to be drinking alcohol at the course regularly. It is also believed that this offense is often ignored. So, Wednesday evening the Nevada Parks Board decided to address the issue head-on. The board voted 5-1 to recommend that the city council amend the city code and permit the sale and consumption of beer at the Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course...

Fort Scott man sentenced for 2004 murder (05/03/08)
By Michael Glover Herald-Tribune Starr Marshall wore an oval-shaped picture of Karl "Rex" Schenker on her jacket. So did Kay Werling and Chad Schenker. And so did about a dozen relatives of Rex Schenker, the victim of a 2004 murder. Kohlby Freeze pleaded guilty to the murder last year...

Efforts to preserve battlefield honored (05/02/08)
In January, 1999, three men became the founders of the Mine Creek Battlefield Foundation, originated with the goal of assisting the Kansas State Historical Society's quest to preserve, protect and interpret the Mine Creek Battlefield for future generations. These three men were John Spencer, Arnold Schofield and Kip lindberg...

'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...

Officials recommend revoking probation (05/01/08)
Sixth Judicial District Community Services program officials have recommended that an 18 year-old Bourbon County man serve 28 days in jail and have his probation revoked for violating terms and conditions of his probation, according to court records...

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. ...

College votes not to renew AG professor's contract (04/22/08)
The Fort Scott Community College Board of Trustees voted unanimously on Monday to not renew the contract of non-tenured FSCC instructor Ed Sutton. Two of Sutton's former students, William Dodson and James Crodeaux, were present at the FSCC Board of Trustees meeting to voice their support for Sutton, a former USD 235 Board of Education member who was most recently an instructor in the FSCC livestock judging program. ...

Parent notification system in the works at Fort Scott schools (04/22/08)
The local school district is setting up a new program, which will enhance its communication ability with parents by utilizing technology. During a special board meeting on March 28, the USD 234 Board of Education approved the implementation of the TextCaster notification system beginning at the start of the 2008-09 school year...

Guardsmen prepare to deploy for Kosovo Force Mission (03/22/08)
The Missouri National Guard is currently preparing for its largest deployment since World War II. Approximately 1,000 citizen-soldiers from more than 300 communities across the state will be deploying some time around June or July, to support the NATO-led Kosovo Force Mission...

'Pennies for the Park' takes up record-seeking fundraiser (03/19/08)
We find them on the street, throw them in a dish on our nightstand and lose them in couch cushions. Pennies; small, round, copper circles that do not seem to amount to much. One committee in Fort Scott thinks differently. This team is banking on the power of the penny and the community...

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...