Stories from Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Fort Scott police arrested four teenagers early Sunday for minor in possession and drinking alcohol at a party on the 1000 block of Holbrook Street. Police also during the incident took into custody a 14 and 15 year- old teens for curfew violation. They were not drinking or possessing alcohol, according to the police report...

Edna Rose Peterson, age 88, former resident of rural Fort Scott, died Sunday, March 4, 2007, at Liberty Hospital in Liberty, Mo. She was born March 24, 1918, in Walnut, Kan., the daughter of Joseph Page and Anna Goff Page. At the age of 12, the family moved to Hiattville. She married Peter 0. Peterson on July 30, 1938. He preceded her in death on April 6, 2002. Edna was a member of the Hiattville United Methodist Church...

HOLT -- Porshe Michelle Holt, a girl, was born at 8:23 p.m. on Monday, March 5, 2007 at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, to parents Nicole Clayton and Derek Holt, Uniontown. She weighed 7 pounds, 6.5 ounces and was 20 inches long at birth. She joins siblings Zachary Titus Franklin, Liberty Lachelle Franklin, and Riley Wray Warner. Maternal grandparents are Janet and Danny Clayton, Redfield. Paternal grandparents are Joyce Holt, Uniontown and Fred Holt, Miami, Oklahoma...

After months of negotiating, the contract dispute between the USD 234 Board of Education and Fort Scott's Kansas National Education Association (KNEA) members has been resolved. During a Feb. 22 meeting between the two sides, a two-year contract was proposed that would resolve this year's contract dispute, which nearly reached the fact-finding stage, while also setting the terms for the 2007-08 school year contract. ...

The current but soon-to-be vacant Wal-Mart building may soon be filled with two retail businesses. When Wal-Mart relocates to a new building just south of the existing store in a few months, it leaves behind a 78,000-square-foot building. PK Capital, a company based in St. Louis, Mo., is in the process of buying the facility from Wal-Mart. They will close on the property in May, said Jerry Combs, a spokesman for PK...