Stories from Wednesday, January 10, 2007

UNIONTOWN -- Acts of school violence over the past few years have caused school districts all across the nation to upgrade their security measures, and West Bourbon Elementary School is no exception. During their regular meeting on Monday, WBE Principal Marianna Daugherty talked to members of the USD 235 Board of Education about a plan by school officials to review and update the school's current crisis plan, which was designed in 2000...

Entering what many refer to as the "real world" right out of college can be difficult, regardless of career choice. And teaching is no exception. As many young educators find out, it takes a lot of work to acquaint themselves with not only the school, their students and their practices, but also the community in which they're teaching...

Roy C. Bassett, age 85, a resident of Mapleton, Kansas, died Monday, January 8, 2007, at the Mount Carmel Regional Medical Center in Pittsburg, Kansas. He was born April 2, 1921, in Emporia, Kansas, the son of Roy C. Bassett, Sr. and Lucille Humphreys Bassett. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) Last night's Kansas City Star says Grant Hornaday is in Topeka working hard for Charley Curtis for United States senator. The Star assumes that Hornaday, in his aspiration to be governor, has figured it out that the powers that make governors of Kansas are also making senators and that is the interest of his candidacy he is in the fight helping them to name Curtis. ...

PARSONS -- Zach Quick scored a personal-best 28 points here Tuesday night in leading Fort Scott High's boys to a 66-49 victory over Parsons in a non-league game at the Harold C. Johnson Gymnasium. Quick, who connected on 11 of 14 field-goal attempts, also had 11 rebounds for the Tigers, who improved to 5-3 going into next week's Basehor-Linwood Bobcat Classic...

PARSONS -- Luckily for Fort Scott High's girls, Christiana Taylor didn't have one more shot in her arsenal here Tuesday night. Taylor, a 5' 3" junior, scored every single one of Parsons' second-half points but missed on a desperation shot at the buzzer as the Tigers escaped with a 33-31 victory at the Harold C. Johnson Gymnasium...