Stories from Tuesday, January 29, 2008

When a group of local elementary school students arrived for class on Friday, they had no idea what kind of accommodations their school is equipped with. In observance of Kansas Day, some of the students from Winfield Scott Elementary were taken to the historic Fort Lincoln School House at 18th and Horton streets to learn about education history. ...

The Marais des Cygnes Riparian Forestry Initiative continues to assist landowners in the basin to plant and manage trees along streams to improve water quality. The Forestry Initiative focuses on forestry best management practices for restoring and protecting water quality. Installing forest buffers along riparian areas decreases stream bank erosion, provides filtration of pollutants entering waterways and reduces sediment entering the streams...

There's no more mystery surrounding how a Fort Scott high school class ring got into the possession of a Missouri man who initially said his family had no connection to Fort Scott. Mike Krasovec, of Lake Tapawingo, Mo., found the 1950 ring last year when sifting through his mother's belongings after she died...

The Bourbon County Conservation District administers a state cost share program designed to conserve soil, and protect water resources. The district is conducting a sign-up for cost share funds beginning Feb. 1, 2008, continuing through March 15, 2008. These funds will be available for use after July 1, 2008...

Harold Arthur Lewis, 92, of Fort Scott, died Monday morning, Jan. 28, 2008 at Mercy Health Center. He was born Oct. 3, 1915 in Soloman, Kansas, the son of Harry Arthur and Lucile Gatchett Lewis. He married Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Shaffer on May 17, 1948 in Fort Scott. She preceded him in death on Sept. 26, 1998...

James Reginald "Reggie" Wellington III, age 38, resident of Tri-Valley, Fort Scott, Kansas died Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008, at his home. He was born Dec. 16, 1969, in Spokane, Washington the son of James R. Wellington Jr. and Mary Alice Wellington Clark. Reggie moved from Spokane to Fort Scott in 1991. He enjoyed working with retired race horses, solving puzzles and working with wood...

Tucker Jeffrey Madison, a boy, was born at 5:41 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008, at Olathe Regional Medical Center to parents Todd and Jennifer Madison, rural Fort Scott. He weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces at birth. He joins two sisters, Talli Jolene, 4, and Taitlyn Jade, 2. Maternal grandparents are J. R. and Vicki Nichols, rural Pleasanton. Paternal grandparents are Frank and Deborah Madison, rural Fort Scott...

We were not in session on Monday in commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Day. Bills were introduced daily and committees have begun their work. This year several committees are meeting in the Docking State Office Building due to the renovation of the state capitol building. Fortunately, the tunnel is open this year between the two buildings and we don't experience going out in the bad weather...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) Fifty cups for a quarter. Rich, delicious and fragrant. It's our Golden Blend. The best coffee value that's ever been offered. It tastes right and it is right. Fresh roasted daily and delivered to your door.--American Pacific Tea Company, 5 South Main. Telephone 118...

The Phi Theta Kappa chapter at Fort Scott Community College received a little extra recognition on Monday. During the regular meeting of the FSCC Board of Trustees, PTK sponsor Harold Hicks, an instructor at the college, presented an update to the board about the FSCC chapter of the international honor society...