Stories from Friday, October 20, 2006

The Bourbon County Relay for Life organization is getting ready to round up teams for its 2007 fund raising campaign called "Ropin' For A Cure." The organization's local chapter, which raises money each year for the American Cancer Society, has been meeting monthly to decide on a theme and schedule fund raising events for their 2007 campaign, which is following a traditional western theme next year, organization co-chairwoman Lavetta Simmons said...

A judge sentenced a Fort Scott drug dealer to 15 months in state prison for selling marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school. On Tuesday, Sixth Judicial District Chief Judge Richard Smith handed down the jail time to Roy W. Guss, 37. He is being held at Southeast Kansas Regional Correctional Center until transferred to an undetermined Kansas Department of Corrections facility...

Fort Scott City Commissioners voted 4-1 this week for the city attorney to draft a resolution accepting a finished portion of Tiffany Lane for the city can provide maintenance. The vote came after local real estate developer Greg Schick requested at the Fort Scott Commission meeting Tuesday the legislative body adopt a resolution accepting the lane as a public thoroughfare for maintenance purposes...

Contract negotiations between the Fort Scott Chapter of the Kansas National Education Association (KNEA) and USD 234 officials will now go to the fact-finding stage after Thursday's meeting with a federal mediator failed to end the dispute. Norman Beattie, commissioner of the Springfield, Mo., based Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services, met with both sides on Thursday in an attempt to end the contract dispute, mainly caused by a disagreement on the teachers' salary package. ...

Jerry L. Clements pleaded not guilty, Wednesday, on felony counts of rape, aggravated indecent liberties and aggravated indecent solicitation of a 6-year-old girl. The 31-year-old entered the plea and his attorney, Mark Fern, waived formal reading of complaint information and waived formal arraignment on all three high-level felony charges...

100 YEARS AGO (1906) In the window of the Cottrell book store there was displayed this week a crayon drawing of W.J. Bryan that was the work of Mrs. Ladie Simonton, and that gives evidence of Mrs. Simonton's rare talent as an artist. When J.I. Sheppard was informed of the picture he laid hands on it and it is now adorning the wall of his office...