Stories from Friday, April 6, 2007

With additional results omitted in Friday's edition due to space constraints.

After reading "The Killers Angels" by the late Michael Shaara, it's easy to see why the novel of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863) during the American Civil War won the coveted Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975. During what is probably his most well-known work, Shaara takes the reader not only to the famous battle, but right smack dab in the middle of it. ...

USD 234 students will receive free immunizations at Fort Scott High School next week. From 8 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, April 11, nurses from the Community Health Center in Pittsburg will conduct a free immunization clinic at FSHS. The following five immunizations will be administered at the clinic:...

More than 100 Scottish Rite masons will come together later this month to welcome new masons and honor other members of the local organization during their spring reunion, Scottish Rite Temple Secretary Keith Jeffers said. The reunion is scheduled to take place from 6 a.m. ...

Violet Minnie (Dellinger) Bashor, age 101, former resident of Mapleton, died Thursday, April 5, 2007, at the Moran Manor Nursing Home in Moran, Kansas. She was born February 19, 1906, in Snohomish, Washington. Violet married Amos Bashor in 1928 while both were employed by Nabisco in Chicago. ...

BRIGGS -- Kristina Michelle Briggs, a girl, was born at 7:35 a.m. on Thursday, April 5, 2007, at Mercy Health Center, to parents Amanda Zornes and Zachary Briggs, Fort Scott. She weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces at birth. She joins a sister, Trisha Briggs. Maternal grandparents are Rena and Anthony Zornes. Paternal grandparents are Sherry Hill and Daryl Briggs...

Numerous tools will be available to help a gardener this spring, whether for weeding the garden, planting grass seed or mowing the lawn. Norman Nation, manager of Heidrick's Appliance in Fort Scott, said they aren't selling any new products for lawn and gardens this year, but some previously introduced products have been a hit for area residents...

Using a lot of sharps and flats, interesting rhythms, good turns of phrase and a voice that belies his 20 years, Paolo Nutini has created in "These Streets" an entire collection of likable songs with themes that reflect the human condition. They cover a wide range of moods, from passion to frustration to longing to despair to resignation to lightheartedness. Nutini has a way of drawing the listener into the story of the song...

The 2006 Best Picture Oscar winner is a violent, deeply engrossing film that is arugably director Martin Scorcese's best project to date.