Stories from Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Along with approving the sale of the old Fort Scott Middle School building, the USD 234 Board of Education discussed several different issues during its regular board meeting on Monday. The board formally recognized Fort Scott High School math teacher Morgan Croan as the recipient of the PSU Outstanding Educator Award for 2007. ...

Warner Otto Tiegreen, age 89, of Chanute, passed away Sunday, May 6, 2007 at his home. Warner was born on January 14, 1918 in Chanute, the son of Hillel Ivan and Esther Carlmina (Warner) Tiegreen. He attended Bristow, Oklahoma and Chanute elementary schools, graduating from Chanute High School in 1936. He attended Chanute Junior College for one year...

Anyone with questions regarding the proposed $6.5 million aquatic center will have the opportunity to have them answered during Thursday's aquatic center informational meeting. The informational meeting will be conducted at 6 p.m., Thursday at Buck Run Community Center, 735 Scott St...

The June 8-10 Echoes of the Trail Cowboy Gathering has updated its Web site. See http://echoesofthetrail.com for the latest additions including a detailed schedule of festival events, plus photos and biographies of this year's performers. In addition to the special Friday and Saturday night shows in the Round Room at Fort Scott Community College, non-stop entertainment Saturday during the day, and Sunday morning Cowboy Church and chuckwagon breakfast, the trade show and auctions will provide some new treats for Echoes festival goers.. ...

Driver's attempt to go through standing water stalls her car

A group of agriculture students at Fort Scott Community College got a close-up look at overseas farming production practices on Tuesday. About 40 students and other FSCC officials boarded a bus early Tuesday morning to tour the Frontier Dairy Farm near Nevada, Mo., to learn about agriculture from an international view and some of the techniques and farming equipment available in other parts of the world...

It's about 750 miles to Colby. It's around 160 miles to Wichita. The Fort Scott Community College baseball team had to go to Colby and get past the Trojans -- which it did by winning the last two games of a three-game series last weekend -- in order to get to Friday's Re-gion VI quarterfinals for the first time since the current post-season format was adopted three years ago...

Deja vu was not what Neosho County Community College head coach Steve Murry had in mind. Neosho County second baseman Brady Ellis scored what held up as the series-winning run in the third game of a best-of-three first-round Region VI Tournament playoff series Tuesday afternoon. The game was moved from Chanute to Fort Scott's Lions Field when the Panthers' home field couldn't recover from Monday's rain...

Thanks to GFD supporters To the Editor, The Garland Fire Department would like to say a big "thank-you" to all of the merchants who donated to our fundraiser, the people who provided entertainment. Fort Scott City Fire Department for bringing out the Smokehouse for our use, MedFlight helicopter, Chuck Evans for being our master of ceremonies, Kansas State Fire Marshall Jack Alexander, and for everyone who attended and helped make it a great success. ...

Tribune Staff Report Before an audience of 120, music students of Carolyn Tucker presented their annual recital, April 27, at the First Church of the Nazarene. Mrs. Tucker welcomed the guests and the Rev. Chris Bowman offered the invocation. Kelcie Bailey, daughter of Mr. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) There were 112 cases of tardiness in the pubic schools for the month ending yesterday, as was shown by the report presented to the school board by Superintendent Bower. This is thought to be a record in late years. The board granted permission to the Salvation Army for the use of Convention Hall for the evenings of the 18th to the 21st. ...

Samantha Josephine Hibbs, daughter of David and Carolyn Hibbs, Chanute, will wed Shawn Michael Reinecke, son of Max and Maxine Reinecke, Fort Scott, on July 7, 2007, in Fort Scott. The prospective groom is a 2002 graduate of Fort Scott High School and is employed as a firefighter for the United States Air Force, currently stationed at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska...