Stories from Thursday, September 21, 2006

Fort Scott High School's tennis team made progress even though it finished last in its home varsity tournament Saturday. The Tigers finished fifth in the five-team tournament as they scored three points. Two of them were the result of the third-place finish of the No. 1 doubles team of Erin Zingre and Jill Query, the only players who had previous varsity experience coming into this season...

The Fort Scott Police Department is requesting any new business in Fort Scott to call its communications center at (620) 223-1700 and provide contact information so dispatchers can inform owners in case of emergency. Dispatchers request two representatives from each new business become designated as "keyholders." They request the "keyholders" provide their name, address, phone number. Also, they ask for the business's name, address and phone number...

Greg Schick pulled his cell phone from his front pocket. He dialed Dan Meara, his attorney. "Hey, is Dan available?" Schick said in the phone. "Hey, I wanted to call you. I was at the city commission meeting last night and they denied my request to move the street down here on Elm. I would like you to proceed with filing a suit against them."...

The construction trades program at Fort Scott High School is preparing to take its show on the road. Industrial arts teacher Mike Hansen and Activities Director Larry Fink are working together to plan a program that would allow industrial arts students to do off-campus construction projects...

Bourbon County will send seven exhibitors to the state's top youth livestock show this weekend near Wichita. Six Uniontown 4-H and FFA students and one Fort Scott Community College freshman have entered 17 animals in the 74th annual Kansas Junior Livestock Show that begins Friday and concludes Monday at the Kansas Coliseum north of Wichita. ...

Local cable and Internet users have probably noticed the name change, and might be asking themselves, "What does it mean?" The aforementioned name change is that of Suddenlink Communications, formerly Cebridge Connections, 14 E. 2nd St., which provides basic and digital cable television and high-speed Internet services to customers in Fort Scott and Bourbon County...

100 YEARS AGO (1906) F.A. Lyon is entertaining his friend, Captain Dobyn of Howard, Kansas, who is a member of the Sixth Kansas Cavalry. He is here attending the reunion. Captain Dobyn is president of the board of managers of the Kansas Soldiers Home and the Bickerdyke Home. He has not been here for many years. He well recalls having been sworn in on the Plaza...

Bradley Scott Smith, age 29, of Raymore, Missouri, died September 18, 2006, at home. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Saturday, September 23, at Mount Moriah and Freeman Chapel, 10507 Holmes Rd. Burial in Mount Moriah Cemetery. Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. Friday at the chapel...