Stories from Friday, February 1, 2008

Come to a miscellaneous shower for the Clayton family, who lost their rural Bourbon County home to fire. The shower will be at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Mt. Orum Baptist Church southwest of Redfield at 1050 115th St.

When some individuals become unhappy with personal circumstances, they seek out freedom from unpleasantries through drug abuse. However, what these individuals do not realize at the time is that they are not freeing themselves, but rather becoming slaves to something uncontrollable and powerful...

More than 40 local business and property owners attended a public meeting Tuesday evening at the Cheney-Witt Carriage House to learn about recently completed plans for renovations in downtown Fort Scott. Following the March 11, 2005, fire that destroyed several downtown buildings and damaged a number of others, then-Mayor Gary Billionis formed a group to start the push toward reconstruction. ...

The Good Ol' Days Steering Committee is working overtime to plan for the 2008 celebration set for June 7 and 8. This year's festival will include many exciting events. In response to numerous requests, Good Ol' Days 2008 will include a carnival. All Season's Amusements will operate Thursday evening, Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday during the festival. The rides and games will be in the west Skubitz Plaza area, near the Street Fair on Old Fort Boulevard...

An agency based in Topeka has established a new program that will provide financial assistance to families displaced by severe storms and flooding that occurred in the region last summer. The Kansas Housing Resources Corporation, a housing assistance agency, recently designed the Homebuyer Repair Program, which assists people in households who lack the full amount of funds required to repair or reconstruct their homes following damages sustained from storms and flooding that struck different portions of Southeast Kansas in July 2007.. ...

Bertha "Betty" Elizabeth Lyons McGrew, 89, formerly of Fulton, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008 at the Countryview Nursing Home in Prescott. She was born Dec. 14, 1918 in Fulton, Kansas, the daughter of Luther Byron and Lucy Christine (Lietch) Lyons...

Laura E. McGrew, 95, died Thursday, January 31, 2008, at Sunset Manor in Frontenac, Kansas. Formerly of Denver, Colorado, she moved to Pittsburg, Kansas, after the death of her husband, Samuel McGrew, in 1985. She was a fifty-year member of the Golden Sheaf chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star and a long-time member of the First Avenue Presbyterian Church in Denver. ...

The KSHSAA debate season came to an end with the state tournament in Garden City the weekend before last. The Tigers continued to have the same success they enjoyed all year as the four-speaker team of AnnRene Braun, Kim Stone, Sterling Braun and Jacoby Zielinski compiled a 10-4 record, which finished them in second place...

Word was received in Arcadia that Galen Dunn, a missionary to the Philippian Islands with his wife Jody Dunn, is back in the USA and in a Minneapolis hospital due to a heart condition. They request prayer of all their interested friends. Class No. 10 of the Arcadia Christian Church met on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) What is conceded to be the biggest wolf drive ever planned by man, in this state at least, is announced by the residents of the country lying between Hiattville and Hepler. The drive is to occur February 8th and will enclose 64,000 acres of earth, covering a radius of 100 miles. ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Fort Scott Community College's offense faded in the second half, allowing Kansas City Kansas to come away with a 52-51 victory in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play at the KCKCC Fieldhouse here Wednesday night. The Greyhounds (1-8 East, 6-15 overall) were shooting 50 percent from the field at halftime, having made 13 of 26 field-goal attempts. But KCK (2-7, 10-11) trailed just 28-27 despite going just 10 of 29 in the first half...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Fort Scott Community College's women, using only six of their seven players for most of the game, dropped their fourth straight game as they took a 67-61 loss to Kansas City Kansas in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play at the KCKCC Fieldhouse here Wednesday...

Area basketball doubleheaders for all four Tribune Area high schools have not been affected and will still be played tonight as scheduled. Fort Scott High School hosts Independence tonight in Southeast Kansas League games at the FSHS gymnasium. Independence cancelled school today but can come up because the roads will be clear in time for the trip here...