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USD 234 will make masks optional for students and staff beginning Monday, Oct. 18. Using data collected by some school officials, the USD 234 Board of Education discussed and unanimously approved COVID-19 gating criteria that will allow for masks to be optional, depending on the number of cases and percentage of cases in each school building...

Fort Scott Community College Athletic Director Tom Havron on Monday reported to Board of Trustees the death of a 19-year-old FSCC football player on Aug. 20. Havron said Tirrell Williams, a student-athlete from Louisiana, collapsed during a workout the evening of Aug. 4 on the practice field on the FSCC campus...

Local veteran Ron Williams received the trip of a lifetime when he was selected for the 2021 Honor Flight. Williams, a U.S. Navy and Vietnam veteran, flew to Washington, D.C., Sept. 21-22 to view the various memorials and other sites in the nation’s capital. He served in Vietnam from 1963 to 1967...

Bourbon County Commissioners on Tuesday took steps to potentially save a downtown Fort Scott building that has been vacant for several years. Robert Harrington, executive director of Bourbon County Regional Economic Development, Inc., asked commissioners to waive the county’s portion of back taxes on the McDonald Hall building at 10-12 S. Main St. Harrington said the building has new owners who plan to rehabilitate it...

Two artists provided some insight into their careers and their relationship with Fort Scott native Gordon Parks during a Friday event that was part of the 2021 Gordon Parks Celebration at Fort Scott Community College. Kyle Johnson, an actor and musician who played the lead role of Newt Winger in Parks’ screen adaptation of his semi-autobiographical novel “The Learning Tree,” and Eli Reed, award-winning photographer and photojournalist, were the recipients of the 2021 Gordon Parks Choice of Weapons award.. ...

Two men face felony charges, including attempted second-degree murder, for an alleged Sept. 25 incident in Bourbon County. See the print or online edition of the Tribune for complete story.

A group of Fort Scott High School golfers fought nasty weather conditions at the regional tournament to punch their ticket to the Class 4A State Girls Golf Tournament Oct. 18-19 in Salina. The Lady Tiger golfers finished second at regionals with a team score of 438. The regional tournament took place Monday at Chanute’s Stone Creek Golf Course...

Fort Scott High School’s boys’ and girls’ cross country teams are SEK champions after first-place finishes at the 2021 SEK Championships Thursday at the Lakeview Recreation Area in Chanute. The girls’ varsity squad clocked a total time of 1:59:06.84 and average time of 23:49.37, and scored 35 team points in the 5K run. The varsity boys scored 26 team points and finished with a total time of 1:34:25.77 and average time of 18:53.16...

Fort Scott High School will send four Lady Tiger tennis players to state after the Class 4A regional tournament Saturday in Independence. Fort Scott’s Emma Daly went 1-2 to finish fourth with four points, while Jenny Heckman compiled a 3-1 record to place third at regionals with five points in singles play...

The Fort Scott City Commissioners on Tuesday discussed the creation of a loitering ordinance. Interim City Manager Mark McCoy said city hall and the police department have received several calls in recent weeks about an increase of vagrancy in the downtown area. He said people sleeping inside and outside Heritage Park at 1st Street...