Stories from Monday, December 21, 2009

The H1N1 flu vaccine has been available to the general public in Bourbon County for a couple of weeks, but community response has not been as high as anticipated, local health officials said Monday. "We continue to offer H1N1 vaccination without cost to the public to everyone that wants one, but the response from our community is low," Bourbon County Public Health Nurse Alice Maffett said...

By 2012, downtown Fort Scott and Wall Street could look quite different. The Fort Scott City Commission will hold a meeting at 5 p.m., Dec. 29, in which they will discuss the city's possible application for a Transportation Enhancement Grant which would fund 80 percent of the cost of three projects which would change the way tourists view and navigate Fort Scott's historical downtown and Skubitz Plaza...

The Fort Scott Community College Baseball team took a break from preparing for their finals with their last community service project of the 2009 fall. They once again placed luminaries at the local Gunn Park on Saturday December 5th. Afterwards, they went shopping for the kids they adopted through the FSCC Adopt-a-Kid program and bought them clothes, diapers, and toys...