Stories from Friday, December 8, 2006

With the holiday season in full swing and Christmas just around the corner, Fort Scott USD 234 schools are getting in the holiday spirit with a series of musical programs. The Fort Scott High School choirs will perform at 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 11, at the Fort Scott Middle School commons, 1105 E. ...

An electrical fire on Thursday ruined a room and caused smoke damage throughout a single story house at 1982 245th St. in rural Bourbon County. No one was home when the blaze broke out, and no injuries were associated with the accident. Owner Todd Madison discovered the fire around 2 p.m. and notified emergency workers. He didn't see actual flames, but the house was smoldering when he further investigated the incident, Madison told Bourbon County deputy sheriffs...

Helen Irene McConnaughey, age 80, Lowry City, Missouri formerly of Richards, Missouri, passed away on Wednesday, December 6, 2006, at Truman Lake Manor in Lowry City, Missouri. She was born September 8, 1926, in Nevada, Missouri, to William James Brewer and Linnie Jane Simmons Brewer...

MAZUR -- Peyton Stephen Mazur, a boy, was born at 8:11 a.m. on Thursday, December 7, 2006 at Mercy Health Center to parents Steve and Melissa Mazur, Fort Scott. He weighed 6 pounds, 3.75 ounces, and was 19-inches long at birth. He joins siblings Aidan Trimble, age 4, Keegan Mazur, age 3, and Kaden Mazur, age 2. ...

PLEASANTON -- During a time out halfway through the period of Jayhawk-Linn's game with Prairie View here Thursday night, Jayhawk head coach Shawn Thomas exhorted his team for "Four minutes of hard work." In that four minutes, Jayhawk-Linn worked hard enough to keep Prairie View at bay in a 48-38 win on the second night of the round-robin Linn County Tournament. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1906) S.F. Hall, 77, who has lived down around Garland for a long term of years, died Friday. Mr. Hall came to this county in its early day and grew up with the country. He was a man respected by all who knew him. He will be buried in Evergreen Cemetery...

The Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce is ready to board passengers for the 17th annual Dolly HollyDay Tour that begins next week, FSACC officials said. Tickets for the annual tour, which takes guests on an evening tour of homes in the area decorated for the holidays, are now available, FSACC Tourism Director Christian Lutz said...