Stories from Tuesday, September 2, 2008

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Uniontown native and former Fort Scott Community College player and coach Gerald Beaman is one of the 2008 inductees into the National Junior College Athletic Association's Football Hall of Fame. Three other former players, a coach of four different NJCAA programs in Mississippi, a special contributor to the Northeastern Oklahoma A&M Golden Norseman program and the national champions of the 1966 season are also part of the 2008 NJCAA Football Hall of Fame Class...

KILGORE, Texas -- Brandon Kinnie was a pretty good basketball player last year at Fort Scott Community College. His college football debut topped anything he did on the court last season as the 6' 5" sophomore -- a redshirt freshman in terms of football eligibility -- caught four touchdown passes as the 18th-ranked Greyhounds defeated No. 14 Kilgore by a 40-20 score in the season opener for both teams...

It's hard to win in any sport when you don't have the ball. And Louisburg made sure Fort Scott High's soccer team didn't have it about 80 percent of the time as the Wildcats took a 5-2 win at Ellis Park Tuesday in the season-opening match for both teams...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) Fern Lake Park closes Labor Day, Sept. 7, with a grand picnic and sham battle given by Company G, of the Kansas National Guard. The Fort Scott Marble and Granite Works of this city has sold more granite and more marble in the past 30 days than in any previous 30-day period for the past year. ...