Stories from Tuesday, March 25, 2008

At 1:35 a.m. March 24, Crawford County deputies and the Baker Fire Dept. were dispatched to hay bails on fire about one-half mile south of 570 Ave. on 200th St. in Crawford County. The owner of the hay, C.L. Farabi, lost 40 bails worth $3,500. While searching the area, a deputy found a second hay fire approximately a mile north of the first fire. ...

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Pitt State University announced today that Heather C. Davis, daughter of Tom and Cindy Davis, Fort Scott, is being recognized for the Alumni Legacy License Plate Scholarship. Davis is a sophomore at Pitt State and is majoring in Chemistry. Davis is also from Fort Scott and attended Cowley County Community College before continuing her education at Pitt State...

The senior citizens Monday night dance at Buck Run Community Center is gradually increasing in number in spite of the sickness, etc. All went well Monday and we had a guest bass guitar player in the band, Fred Taylor from Chanute. He also sang a couple numbers after break time...

People say that "an apple a day keeps the doctor away"--but that's only part of the story. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which are the most current recommendations for what we should eat to be healthy, recommend consuming a variety of different fruits, as well as vegetables, whole-grains, low-fat or fat-free milk products, and lean meat and beans...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) Harry Brown, the veteran member of the board of education, dropped in at last evening's council meeting and made a speech. Mr. Brown does not like to see the schools charged for the water they consume and also would like to be given some good reason why the water rates should be raised...

The Fort Scott Community College nursing program has grown from where it was just a few years ago. During their regular monthly meeting on Monday, the FSCC Board of Trustees heard a report on the recent expansion of the nursing program, which is currently housed inside the three-story, 25,000-square-foot building at the Burke Street Campus, 810 Burke St. ...

Larry James Mathers, age 63, resident of Ash Grove, Missouri, formerly of Florissant , Missouri, died Saturday, March 22, 2008, at his home following a courageous battle with cancer. He was born July 25, 1944, in Central Lake, Michigan the son of Harry mathers and Hazel Murray Mathers. Larry married Connie Pavey on April 18, 1965, in Wichita, Kan...

PITTSBURG -- Three Fort Scott High seniors have been invited to take part in the U.S. Army/Army Reserves All-Star basketball games hosted by KSEK and KLKC radio stations, which will be held here April 6. Afton Gray and Joce Allen will play for opposing teams in the girls' game. Gray is listed on the Team KSEK roster while Allen is slated to dress for Team KLKC. Tony Karleskint will play for Team KSEK in the boys' game...

Hazel Irene Marsh, 87, of Farlington, Kansas died at 11:05 p.m., Monday, March 24, 2008, in the Arma Care Center in Arma, Kan. Irene was born March 23, 1921 in Fort Scott, Kan., a daughter of Elmer and Iva (Matlock) Hill. She grew up in Farlington. She married James A. Marsh on November 23, 1940, in Farlington. He survives of the home...

Fort Scott Community College will host the 27th Annual Aggie Days competition on Friday. The competition is one of the largest and longest running agricultural competitions in the region. More than 1,400 students representing more than 100 area high schools are expected to compete in several categories, including livestock, meat, dairy foods, poultry, floriculture, nursery landscape, entomology, speech, farm business management, agronomy, food science and land judging...

Eric James, the fourth suspect accused of vandalism in Allen County and a string of home invasions in Southeast Kansas, was extradited back to Allen County early Monday afternoon, Iola Police Chief James Kilby said. Authorities found James holed up in a house in Kansas City, Mo., where he initiated a brief stand-off with law enforcement on Friday...

Mercy Health Center celebrated the arrival of a donated piano on Thursday at the Mercy Day Room in the Mercy Rehab Centre. According to Mercy Health Center Auxiliary President Nancy Patterson, the piano was placed in the day room in memory of Mercy Auxiliary volunteer Earl Dosstter because of his many years of volunteer service to the hospital. Patterson displayed a memorial plaque on the piano in Dosstter's honor...

The Fort Scott High School golf team goes into this season with just one varsity spot open due to graduation. And on Tuesday morning, head coach Ken Klassen knew for the most part that he will be able to count on at least four positions being filled when the Tigers begin defense of their Southeast Kansas League championship Thursday with the first league-designated meet at Independence Country Club...

Fort Scott's Simpson hurls no-hitter, strikes out 14 in opener