Stories from Monday, June 29, 2009

BRONSON -- The community of Bronson plans to celebrate the anniversary of a special event in the town's history this weekend. On Saturday, city officials and community members will celebrate the centennial of the world's first horseshoe pitching tournament, which took place in Bronson in 1909. The Saturday event will also include an evening fireworks display in celebration of Independence Day...

During the 13th annual Echoes of the Trail Cowboy Gathering at Fort Scott Community College the weekend of June 12-14, four winners of the five-county kids' cowboy poetry contest read their winning entries in the FSCC Round Room June 13. Winners of the third annual contest are Fort Scott students: first place, Dakota Mashek of Linda Jackson's fifth-grade class at Eugene Ware Elementary; second place, Garrett Tatro of Stacia Weilert's fifth-grade at Winfield Scott; and third place, Lacie Forquer, also in Ms. ...

Downtown Fort Scott was bustling with are residents and tourists alike on Saturday. More than 100 custom cars made their way into Fort Scott Saturday morning to take part in a car show organized by Stray Kat Customs, a Dewey, Okla.-based car company...

The Kansas Highway Patrol is encouraging motorists to exercise extra caution and patience when operating a motor vehicle around farm trucks, tractors, and combines during the harvest season. Every year the KHP and local law enforcement agencies investigate numerous crashes between passenger vehicles and farm vehicles, many of which could have been prevented...

Just one month following the Kansas Highway Patrol's "Click It Or Ticket" campaign, the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office is participating in a localized seat-belt awareness effort. Bourbon County, along with Allen, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson, and Woodson counties, is using special federal grant money to increase seat-belt awareness from July 1-7...

Members of the Fort Scott Modern Woodmen of America camp recently helped raise money for the Fort Scott Community College Theatre Department following the college's recent musical. "Once Upon a Mattress," the college's first theatre performance in the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center, took place May 1-3 and brought in $5,000 for the FSCC Theatre Department. ...

Local teen sees Blitz as community builder