Stories from Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Fort Scott Community College's baseball team split its most recent doubleheaders but remains on top of the Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division. The Greyhounds, 9-3 in the division and 20-9 overall, split Thursday at Johnson County, winning the first game 7-6 and losing the second 6-3...

ALTAMONT -- Fort Scott High School opened its varsity and junior varsity track seasons here Friday night. Fort Scott's varsity boys finished in fifth place as a team while the girls placed sixth. Tiger JV girls won their portion of the meet while the JV boys finished in fifth place...

RICHMOND -- Jayhawk-Linn's track teams opened the season here Friday at the Central Heights Invitational. The girls won the team title while the boys finished in third place. Jayhawk girls finished with 127 points, 26 better than runner-up Waverly. Cass-Midway of Freeman, Mo. was third with 99 points. Jayhawk boys finished with 89 points while Cass-Midway won the team title with 110 points and Kansas City Christian finished second with 95...

WaKEENEY -- Pleasanton's Alex Richmond won the Class 2A state championship in the 165-pound class in bench press at the State Weight-lifting Meet here Saturday. Richmond pressed 275 pounds to win the event and also finished fourth in the squat with a lift of 315 pounds. Overall, Richmond placed fifth out of 20 competitors...

Voters on Tuesday decided to release two of the three incumbents running for Fort Scott City Commission seats, replacing them with two newcomers. Challengers Gary Bukowski and Jim Adams placed second and third, respectively, in Tuesday's election, with Bukowski netting 902 votes, or 20.8 percent, and Adams getting 624, or 14.4 percent...

An Independence man recently met with Fort Scott's Aqua Vision Committee and local residents to share his experience in establishing his home town's aquatic center. Dave Torbett, who chaired an Independence task force to create its Riverside Beach Family Aquatic Center (RBFAC), spoke at Fort Scott's Aqua Vision Committee meeting last week, which was attended by around 60 community members, according to committee co-convenor Kale Nelson. ...

Unofficial final results are in for Tuesday's general election for Fort Scott and Uniontown city and school board offices, as well as other offices in surrounding towns. The election results will not be declared official until after the Bourbon County Board of Canvassers meets on Friday to tabulate and add any write-in votes from the election. ...

Fort Scott Codes Administrator Brent Crays is leaving the city to start his own car detail and stereo business next month. Crays recently turned in his resignation, with his last day being April 13, he announced at Tuesday's commission meeting. "I want to thank everybody that gave me the opportunity to serve the people of Fort Scott," Crays said. ...

John Harvey Chambers, age 89, of Fort Scott, passed away early Tuesday morning, April 3, 2007, at St. John's Hospital in Joplin, Missouri. He was born September 4, 1917, in Fort Scott, the son of James Harvey and Emma Bessie (Dugan) Chambers. He married Marguerite L. (Wortman) Zimmerman April 10, 1943, in Wichita. She preceded him in death February 6, 1991. Harvey served his country in WWII for the U.S. Army. He was a mechanic and auto body repairman in the Fort Scott area for many years...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) There were four special policemen sworn in this morning to preserve order at the voting places. In the first ward no officer was appointed as this is so near the central part of town that no disturbance was likely to occur. In the Second Ward Perry Gilham was assigned; in the Third Ward J.A. Tite saw that there was nothing irregular going on; Ol Roberts guarded the Fourth Ward polling place; C.H. Hammond was stationed in the Fifth Ward...

The Uniontown United Methodist Women met in the Fellowship Hall of the church for their March 14 meeting. The meeting was called to order by the President Pat McClenahan. Those present were Beverly Geiger, Margaret Hartman, Pat McClenahan, Lavon Middleton, and Janice Ramsey. ...