Stories from Friday, October 5, 2007

Sixth-grade volleyball, played Tuesday: Seventh- and eighth-grade volleyball, played Tuesday:...

MOUND CITY -- Pleasanton's cross country team competed at Sugar Valley here Thursday on what head coach Dan Saulsberry called a "tough course." Travis Bradley was the Blu-Jays' high finishers in the five-kilometer varsity boys' race with a time of 19:09, good for 17th place. Kelly Wadel was 18th with a time of 19:13 and Dennis Moore finished 30th in 21:11...

ALTAMONT -- Fort Scott High's freshmen volleyball team went 1-2 in a quadrangular here Tuesday night. Fort Scott lost its first match, 25-10, 25-21, to host Labette County. Sammi Newton, Morgan Tourtillott and Chelsea Wollenberg each had two kills for the Tigers...

COLUMBUS -- Fort Scott High's varsity volleyball team suffered a sweep in a Southeast Kansas League triangular here Thursday night. The Tigers were swept by Columbus, 25-21, 26-24, in the first match. Pittsburg took the second match, 25-12, 25-21. The Tigers beat both these teams in the first outing of the season Aug. 25 at Fort Scott. That day, FSHS swept Columbus and beat Pittsburg in three games...

INDEPENDENCE -- Two members of Fort Scott High's varsity girls cross country team earned top-10 finishes here at the Independence Invitational Thursday evening. Catherine Sercer finished in fifth place for the Tigers as she ran the four-kilometer course in 16:57.27. Kaylie Harper placed ninth in 17:33.06...

Fort Scott High School's varsity soccer team just completed a stretch of six days in which the Tigers played five games. However, after beating Columbus 2-0 in Southeast Kansas League play at Ellis Park Tuesday night, the Tigers aren't going to complain too much...

St. John's United Methodist Church, Third and Little streets, will be holding their Annual Bazaar of Christian Talents on Saturday, Oct. 7, beginning at 8 a.m. This is the 30th year that the bazaar has been conducted by the United Methodist Women's group at the church. The UMW group conducts this event yearly in order to raise funds for their many mission projects locally, in the United States and in foreign countries...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) The A.O.U.W. will give a dance at Union Hall Tuesday evening. Only those holding invitations will be admitted Admission 50 cents a couple; extra ladies 15 cents. Let us fill your daily hardware wants and all your days will be lucky (a good luck in a horseshoe). We have a splendid assortment in gas ranges, gas heat- heaters, gas fixtures, gas mantles and gas fittings. We install them.--A.C. Penniman & Son, Hardware...

A judge found enough probable cause to bind over for trial a former Bourbon County sheriff's deputy on charges of stealing rifles that at one time were stolen property. Sixth Judicial Chief Judge Richard Smith Tuesday bound over Jim Blair, who was sheriff's deputy from March 1999 to August 2004, on two counts of felony theft...

A judge Tuesday sentenced a Southeast Kansas man to 23 years and 8 months in state prison for molesting a young girl. Sixth Judicial Chief Judge Richard M. Smith sentenced Paul Johnson to two terms, which total the nearly 24-year sentence. Smith ordered that he serve 16 years and 6 months to felony aggravated criminal sodomy and 7 years and 2 month to felony aggravated indecent liberties. The sentences will run consecutively...

Elizabeth Eckford remembers the historic events that took place 50 years ago like they happened just yesterday. Eckford was one of the members of the Little Rock Nine who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. On Sept. 4 of that year, nine African-American students attempted to enter the racially-segregated school. Their efforts were blocked by several U.S. National Guard troops called up by then-Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus...

The Fort Scott Community College football team sent some of its players back to elementary school last week. A group of Greyhounds visited Eugene Ware Elementary School on Thursday, Sept. 27 after receiving an invitation from the school's principal, Billie Jo Drake, FSCC officials said...

Local students in the Fort Scott High School Orchestra will receive a rare opportunity in February. The Fort Scott High School String Orchestra recently received word of an invitation extended to them to perform during the Feb. 29, 2008, Kansas Music Educators Association (KMEA) convention program. The scheduled performance will be at 11:30 a.m. that Friday, FSHS Orchestra teacher Jane Williams said...