Stories from Wednesday, March 7, 2007

About a month after a grand jury issued 12 indictments stemming from an investigation into alleged wrongdoing by Fort Scott city officials and local residents, the Kansas Attorney General's Office charged five persons in relation to those indictments...

A new bidder is getting his chance at owning the old Fort Scott Middle School building located at 412 S. National Ave. During the USD 234 Board of Education meeting on Monday, the board approved a contract with West Haven, Conn., native Robert Gbobaniyi for the sale of the old FSMS building. ...

A number of local businesses and individuals recently received awards for their contributions to the 2006 United Way of Bourbon County fund raising campaign. For the first time in five years, the organization exceeded its annual $100,000 goal, bringing in about $105,000 through it's "Focus on the Future" campaign last year, officials said. ...

A proposed aquatic center, as drafted in a conceptual design, will cost $6.5 million to construct and will likely be funded through a sales tax increase. Kale Nelson, co-leader of the Acquatic Center Visioning Committee, released a conceptual design of the project at Tuesday's city commission meeting...

LEWIS -- Mykael Amos Dean Lewis, a boy, was born at 8:18 a.m. on Tuesday, March 6, 2007, at Mercy Health Center to parents Trista Smith and Greg Lewis, Fort Scott. He weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces at birth. Maternal grandparents are Bobba and Randy Shadden, Garland and Dale and Barbra Smith, Mound City. Paternal grandparents are Tom and Kathy Lewis, Redfield...

Fort Scott Community College's women's basketball team hosts a Region VI Tournament first- round game tonight at Arnold Arena. Dodge City will be the opponent for the 7 p.m. tip off. Fort Scott is the No. 3 seed from the eastern half of Region VI after finishing third in the Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division. ...

Fort Scott Community College's men's basketball team faces Barton County tonight in Great Bend in a Region VI Tournament first-round playoff game. The Greyhounds, who finished fourth in the Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division, go into the game as the No. 6 seed from the eastern side of the region after losing tie-breakers to Kansas City and Cowley...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) It will be the source of much joy to the people of Fort Scott to know that the state legislature in its annual appropriations to the various charitable institutions of Kansas doubled its last year's donation to the two Fort Scott institutions. ...