Stories from Thursday, February 21, 2008

All classes in the USD 234 schools are cancelled for Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008.

The Neighborhood Revitalization action team meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21, has been postponed due to inclement weather to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at The Fort Scott Tribune, 12 E. Wall. Contact Tabatha Goodwin, Neighborhood Revitalization action team co-convener for more information, (417) 667-3344 or tgoodwin@nevadadailymail.com...

Fort Scott Community College's women, down to just seven players, were unable to keep a consistent effort going Wednesday night in a 74-49 loss to Johnson County, ranked fourth in the nation in NJCAA Division II. The Greyhounds, 5-10 in the Jayhawk Conference's Eastern Division and 12-12 overall, were able to keep pace with the Cavaliers early and also staged a brief second-half rally that brought them back within six points...

Arsenio Williams and Brandon Kinnie combined to score 53 points for Fort Scott Community College's men at Arnold Arena Wednesday night. Unfortunately for the Greyhounds, the rest of the team produced only 10 points -- and just two in the second half -- and visiting Johnson County, with it's more-balanced attack, came away with a 75-63 victory in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play...

All four of the Tribune Area high schools discovered their Sub-State tournament first-round matchups Wednesday. Fort Scott's teams will be in the Anderson County Class 4A Sub-State Tournament while Jayhawk-Linn will be in the Wellsville Class 3A Sub-State. Both Uniontown and Pleasanton are in the Humboldt Class 2A Sub-State...

Fort Scott High School's basketball games against Coffeyville, scheduled for tonight, have been postponed due to the weather. The schools will try again Friday night with a normal six-game varsity, junior varsity and freshmen boys' and girls' slate...

Some local teachers teach African-American history to their students in different ways. Throughout the month of February, schools, businesses and other organizations across the country have been celebrating Black History Month -- a remembrance of important people and events in African-American history...

Parents who help their teenager obtain a driver's license might think that their job is done after their teenager receives that little piece of plastic with their picture on it. However, it may mean that their job is just beginning. According to information provided by Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in the fall 2007 issue of the hospital's magazine, Safe & Sound, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has determined that teen drivers are among the most dangerous drivers on the road. ...

While most wildlife are hunkered down for winter, the bushy-tailed tree climbers appear to be playing -- perhaps to entertain the relatively hairless humans trapped indoors by the weather. For tree squirrels, however, chasing each other now is serious business. ...

Kenneth Robert Bruce, 88, died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008 at the Summerwood Alzheimer's Special Care Center in Moses Lake, Wash. He was born Dec. 24, 1919 in Prescott, Kansas, the son of Otto and Ella Bruce of Prescott. He lived in Kansas from 1919 to 1957; in Quincy, Wash., from 1957 to 1964; in Redmond, Ore., from 1967 to 1980, in Crooked River Ranch, Ore., from 1980 to 2003, in Ephrata, Wash., from 2004-2005, and in Moses Lake, Wash., from 2005 until his death...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) Surely the fates are again the successful prosecution of the city's new garbage ordinance which was passed by the council after running the gauntlet of cross-fire and amendments of numerous ladies' societies, who worked for the passage of the afore-said ordinance. ...

Ed Schafer was sworn in as the 29th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on January 28, 2008. Secretary Schafer brings a record as an innovative two-term governor of North Dakota to USDA along with extensive private sector experience as both an entrepreneur and a business executive...