Stories from Wednesday, March 16, 2011

100 YEARS AGO (1911) Will Fort Scott support the Young Men's Christian Association in the handsome new building which has recently been built for it at a cost of $40,000 and which has been saved from creditors by the generous response of a few Fort Scott men? The committee recently named by the Industrial Association to work out a plan of preventing foreclosure on the Y.M.C.A. ...

This week I received information regarding overtime paid by the state. Let me give you a few examples: a Hutchison Correction Facility laundry manager was paid $25,707 overtime; a Department of Transportation Engineering Associate was paid $15,419 overtime; another laundry manager at the Hutchison Correction Facility was paid $18,386 overtime; and a Kansas Lottery executive secretary $23,593 overtime. There were 7,371 state employees that were paid overtime in 2010...

Earl Edward Self, age 86, Mound City, Kan., died Monday March 14, 2011 at his Farlinville home. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday March 19, 2011 at the Coffel-Schneider Funeral Home in Mound City, Kan. Burial will be in the Walnut Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Friday at the Coffel-Schneider Chapel...

Bro. Curtis Lee Reagan, 82, of Blue Mound, Kansas died at his home Monday, March 14, 2011. He was born Aug. 3, 1928 in Hammond, Mo., the son of William Edgar and Viola (Bowman) Reagan. He married Lillie Irene Laney Sept. 11, 1950 in Miami, Okla. She preceded him in death June 23, 1996. He later married Anna Stewart Loar Barnard March 2, 2000, in Weheetka, Okla. She survives of the home...

Former employees of a local manufacturer that closed its doors last week may get some help figuring out their futures at a seminar on Thursday. KANSASWORKS, a program of the Kansas Department of Commerce, the city of Fort Scott, the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce, and Fort Scott Community College, has planned an informational meeting for the 21 recently laid-off workers of Topco Laminates Corp., which closed last week due to several factors, including a poor economy and housing market and rising fuel prices.. ...

Bryan Holt, vice president of business development at Union State Bank, and Stacy Berry, a fourth- and fifth-grade teacher at St. Mary's Catholic School, danced for St. Mary's Catholic School at Saturday's Dancing With Our Stars fundraiser. The Tribune regrets the error...

The Fort Scott Planning Commission will meet at 4 p.m. Monday, March 21 to discuss a sign variance for Dollar General and the reappointment of a board member. The meeting will be held at City Hall, 123 S. Main, and is open to the public.

During February, second-graders at Winfield Scott Elementary School jumped all over heart disease and stroke by participating in Jump Rope for Heart, a news release said. The students raised more than $1,500 for the American Heart Association, which funds research, programs and education to fight heart disease and stroke, the nation's No. 1 and No. 3 killers...

Having watched the unfolding events in Japan on television, Liberty Theatre owner Jim Smith plans to make his own donations to relief efforts through the Red Cross. The Crooner's Lounge, 115 S. Main, usually serves dinner before shows and will do so again before Saturday night's show "That's Entertainment," featuring Rudy C. Amato and J.R. Farley. The show is scheduled for 8 p.m. at the Liberty, 113 S. Main...

Extra seating was needed in the commissioner's meeting room Tuesday as about 75 residents flooded City Hall for a work session regarding the city's potential purchase of the Fort Scott golf course. "It's exciting to see so many people here," Fort Scott City Manager Dave Martin said, kicking off the work session...