Stories from Friday, July 11, 2008

Myrtle Mae Clinesmith, 90, of Springfield, Mo., formerly of Centerville, Kan., died July 7, 2008 in Springfield. Graveside services will be held at 11:30 a.m., Saturday, July 12, 2008, at the Centerville Cemetery, Centerville, Kan. Contributions are suggested to the Myrtle Clinesmith Memorial Fund...

FELT -- Brady Russel Felt, a boy, was born at The University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, Kan., at 3:33 a.m., Monday, July 7, 2008, to parents Lacey Ruby and Jerod Felt, Fort Scott. He weighed 9 pounds, 2 ounces at birth and was 21 inches in length. ...

A Breakfast Club for Alzheimer's caregivers will meet in Fort Scott, Wednesday, July 16, at 9 a.m., in the Xavier Room at Mercy Health Center. The Breakfast club offers an opportunity to come and talk with individuals who share similar issues while enjoying a free breakfast. Anyone may attend who serves as a caregiver to an individual with a dementia like Alzheimer's...

This is a notice to the public that more than a majority of a quorum of the Fort Scott City Commission may attend the Fort Scott/Bourbon County Riverfront Authority Meeting which is scheduled for Monday, July 21, 2008, at 5:15 p.m., in the Gordon Parks Center, Fort Scott Community College, 2108 S. ...

The City would like to remind anyone wanting to have tree limbs picked up by the city, to make sure tree limbs are at the curb of your street. The Public Works Department will make a final drive through on Monday, July 14, for pickup. Any items placed at the curb after that date will be the responsibility of the property owner to clean up...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) Berry Coran, one of the most widely known African Americans of this city, died yesterday at his home, 1123 East Elm Street. The deceased had been a resident of Fort Scott the past 25 or 30 years. He was one of the most honorable and upright men who ever retained a residence here. ...

After months of planning and numerous practice runs, Fort Scott residents led by the Youth Activity Team laid one mile of pennies to become Guinness World Record holders.

The Fort Scott Tribune Kaoru Ishikawa, records manager for Guinness World Records, London, England, made the overseas venture to Fort Scott to adjudicate the Youth Activities Team's successful acquisition of one world record, with one still to be attempted...

By Justin Messner The Fort Scott Tribune Written in 1932, the book "Bob Fudge: Texas Trail Driver" was last printed in 2001 and appeared destined to be out of circulation for good. That is until a Fort Scott family decided to revive their family favorite personally...

Special to The Tribune The Kansas Arts Commission has notified the Gordon Parks Celebration of Culture and Diversity at Fort Scott Community College that the Celebration is a recipient of a FY2009 Arts-in-Communities Project Grant in the amount of $7,500...

By Jason E. Silvers The Fort Scott Tribune The Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce will lose one of its key staff members next week following a recent announcement that FSACC Tourism Director Katie Casper plans to resign. Casper, a Fort Scott native who began working in the chamber's tourism department in May 2007, said Thursday that she has accepted a job with the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development office in Iola working as a loan specialist for business and community events. ...

Fort Scott is now slated to grace the pages of Guinness World Records 2010 edition after successfully laying 1 mile of pennies in 2 hours, 23 minutes, 1 second Thursday night. Despite some doubting, the large group of Fort Scott area residents and Youth Activity Team members was able to complete this feat 1 minute, 14 seconds faster than the previous record holders, a group of teachers and students from the United Kingdom...

Members of the Youth Activities Team expect to break a second world record sometime tonight. With the help of area residents, the YAT team is attempting to lay 40 miles of pennies, which will break the current world record of 34.57 miles set in 1995 by a group of people in Malaysia...

Just before 8 p.m. Friday, records manager for Guinness World Records Kaoru Ishikawa declared that Fort Scott had just broken the record for the longest line of pennies. At that time, the YAT team along with area residents had laid 35.1 miles of pennies in the Fort Scott Middle School parking lot. They are continuing their effort to reach 40 miles sometime later Friday night...

Fort Scott, Kan. -- A big part of frontier military life during the 1800s can now be seen in a small store in downtown Fort Scott. Local residents Steve and Laura Dunfee are the owners of the new Sutler Store, located at 106 E. Old Fort Blvd., just south of the Fort Scott National Historic Site. The store contains a large variety of historical items that were once typically found in an actual sutler store during the mid-1800s and the Civil War era...