Stories from Thursday, May 13, 2010

Jackson, Sister Mary Trinity RSM, a Sister of Mercy, died in St. Louis at Catherine's Residence on April 28, 2010. She was born Nov. 22, 1923 in Humboldt, Kan., and was baptized Evelyn Arbutus Jackson. Sister Mary Trinity entered the Sisters of Mercy community at Webster Groves, Mo., on Feb. 1, 1946 and professed her first Vows on Aug. 16, 1948...

Edith Charmain Gorman, age 89, of Mound City, Kan., died Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at the Fort Scott Manor at Fort Scott, Kan. Funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, May 15, 2010 at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Mound City, Kan. Rosary will be at 7 p.m., Friday May 14, 2010 with a visitation to follow ending at 8:30 p.m. at the Coffel-Schneider Funeral Home Mound City, Kan...

Fort Scott and Uniontown have drawn the top seed in their upcoming Regional baseball tournaments, which will get underway next week. Fort Scott, 8-7, will host a first-round Girard Class 4A Regional Tournament game against Coffeyville (5-15) Monday at 4:30 at Lions Field. The Tigers are the only team in the field with a winning record...

Uniontown No. 2 seed in home Regional

Charlie Sercer and Colton Grillott can say they earned their trip to this weekend's Class 4A State Tennis Tournament, considering the extra work they had to do to get there. Their final two matches went to what is called a "super tie-breaker" and although they lost those matches, they felt good about how they played...

UNIONTOWN -- Five Uniontown High School students competed in seven events at the Kansas Scholastic Press Association's State Contest at the University of Kansas in Lawrence on May 1. Three students came home with medals for their efforts. More than 940 students from 109 Kansas schools competed in the contest at Kansas University. ...

PITTSBURG -- The Southeast Kansas Humane Society is holding its Seventh Annual Paws and Claws Adopt-A-Thon and Open House Saturday and Sunday at the shelter two-and-a-half miles west of U.S. 69 on 20th Street/560 Avenue. Hours are 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Refreshments will be served...

Area golfers have a couple of months to perfect their golf swings for one of the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce's annual fundraisers. The 16th Annual FSACC Golf Classic, which is scheduled to take place July 9 at the Fort Scott Country Club, 2414 S. ...

Riverfront park design drawings presented to public Wednesday

Early-morning rain has affected several Fort Scott High School athletic events scheduled for today (Thursday)...

GOLDEN -- Katryna Jaeger and Daniel Golden Sr., Fort Scott, and sisters Karleigh and Danielle, are proud to announce the birth of their son and brother, Daniel Lee Golden II. Daniel was born at 12:03 p.m., May 4, 2010 at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott...

DUROSSETTE -- Kevin and Autumn Durossette, Fort Scott, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Sophie Grace Durossette. Sophie was born at 8:07 March 24, 2010 at Mt. Carmel Hospital, Pittsburg. She weighed 4 pounds, 10 ounces and was 16 1/2 inches in length at birth...