Stories from Wednesday, February 14, 2007

After nearly four months of searching, the Fort Scott Community College Board of Trustees has found the college's next president. During a special meeting Tuesday morning at FSCC, trustees announced that Garden City resident Clayton Tatro has been hired to serve as the college's new chief administrator. Tatro will replace current president Jim Miesner, who last fall, announced his intention to retire in July. Tatro will begin his new full-time duties in June, an FSCC statement said...

Southeast Kansas Regional Correctional Center officials are preparing to implement a new device that will help make their employees' jobs safer and more efficient. After meeting with SEKRCC Program Coordinator Jimmy Nichols at Friday's regular Bourbon County Commission meeting, commissioners approved the purchase of the Body Orifice Security Scanner (BOSS) II, a chair-like device that uses electromagnetic pulses to do a full, non-intrusive body and cavity search of inmates entering the jail...

The Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce's Tourism Committee meets monthly to support activities and events designed to bring tourists to our town. Each meeting includes brainstorming to come up with ways to encourage out-of-towners to come and take a look at Fort Scott...

Eight candidates vying for seats on the Fort Scott City Commission pitched their ideas and plans for Fort Scott at a forum on Tuesday. The event, hosted by the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce, saw more than100 people fill Fort Scott Middle School to hear what the candidates had to say...

GRAHAM -- Leia Cerine Graham, a girl, was born at 8:06 p.m. on Monday, February 12, 2007 at Mercy Health Center to parents Nicholas and Karen Graham, Fort Scott. She weighed 8 pounds, 5.5 ounces at birth. Maternal grandparents are Richard and Orrilla Clough, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Paternal grandparents are Ed and Nancy Graham, Arcadia...

Alice "Marie" Sipe, age 90, a resident of the Medicalodge of Fort Scott, died Monday, February 12, 2007, at Mercy Health Center. She was born February 23, 1916, in Hume, Missouri, the daughter of Ira Chadwick and Jessie Anderson Chadwick. Marie worked at Mercy Hospital as a cook and baker. ...

Mrs. "Susie" Thelma Viola McReynolds, age 94, of Bolivar, went to be with her Lord and Savior, Monday February 12, 2007, at 6:30 a.m. in Citizens Memorial Hospital, Bolivar after a brief illness. She was born September 2, 1912 in Arcadia, to Clifford and Gertrude Mayfield. She was a meat wrapper, a member of the Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, and American Legion Post No. 138 Auxiliary...

Paul Clark Woody, age 70, a longtime resident of rural Bronaugh, Mo., died early Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007, at the Joplin Health and Rehabilitation Center in Joplin, Mo. He was born on the family farm near Bronaugh on Sept. 7, 1936, the son of Oscar Woody and Wilma Helene Clark Woody...

Melvin B. "Boots" Foster, age 87, of Fort Scott, passed away Tuesday morning, Feb. 13, 2007, at the Mercy Health Center. He was born June 8, 1919 in Mulberry, the son of Oliver and Cora Groves Foster. He married Marjorie Phillips November 2, 1940 in Nevada, Missouri. She survives of the home...

Enid Dunlap Wood, age 99, of Fort Scott, passed away Monday evening, February 12, 2007, at the Medicalodge Nursing Home. She was a retired schoolteacher, having taught for 42 years in Kansas, Arkansas, Idaho, and Oregon. She retired in 1971 and returned to her home area, residing for several years near Arma. ...

Fort Scott High's boys didn't have it easy against Parsons in a Southeast Kansas League game at the FSHS gymnasium Tuesday night. Then again, no game is easy in the SEK and especially when you're the Fort Scott Tigers. The Vikings gave the Tigers some trouble, leading by six points at halftime. ...

Fort Scott High's girls won their fourth straight game Tuesday night, coming from behind to beat Parsons 46-41 in Southeast Kansas League play on Senior Night at the FSHS gymnasium. The Tigers, 5-1 in the SEK and 7-11 overall, trailed by 10 points at halftime. But a concerted effort to establish the inside game led to a rally at the start of the second half that brought Fort Scott back within one point...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) The fire department had its first fire in almost a month's time yesterday and was reported in last evening's paper. The fire was a the home of Mrs. Vade Berry, corner of Third and Clark streets. This morning about 9 o'clock the home of Frisco Fireman W.S. ...