Stories from Friday, September 26, 2008

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UNIONTOWN -- Enrollment numbers for two USD 235 schools are down just slightly from last year, school officials said. On the 20th day of classes each academic semester, which this year was Monday, all Kansas public schools are required to submit final enrollment numbers to the Kansas Department of Education. A total of 461 K-12 students are enrolled in classes this year at West Bourbon Elementary School and Uniontown Junior Senior High School...

PLEASANTON -- The Kansas Historical Society announced recently that Mine Creek Battlefield State Historic Site will participate in the Pleasanton Days fall festival 12--5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, and 1--5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5. Activities at the site include the display of special Civil War artifacts not normally on display at the site, presentations, a guided tour of the battlefield and live music...

Bourbon County Emergency Manager Keith Jeffers has scheduled a storm spotters class from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Saturday in the Fort Scott Community College Greyhound Room, 2108 S. Horton St. The instructor for the class will be Steve Runnels, who is the Warning Coordinating Meteorologist for the National Weather Service's Springfield, Mo. ...

Local Guitar heroes will be coming to the rescue, raising money for the United Way. Youth Ministries of Fort Scott is playing host to a Guitar Hero Face-Off at the Keyhole, Saturday at 3 p.m. The contest is centered around the popular video game and is open to middle school and high school students. ...

Members of the Southeast Kansas Regional Correctional Center's Community Emergency Response Team visited with students at Winfield Scott Elementary School on Wednesday. SEKRCC Director of Programs Jimmy Nichols told the students one of the reasons he and the CERT team were visiting them was because Bourbon County Sheriff Harold Coleman and Undersheriff Ron Gray wanted to provide positive influences for children in the county. ...