Stories from Thursday, April 7, 2011

YATES CENTER -- Uniontown's junior varsity softball team took two games here Tuesday night, beating Yates Center 14-7 in the opener and Eureka in the nightcap (the score of that game was not provided). Mandie Ridge allowed 3 hits and 6 walks in the opening game while striking out 2. The Eagle offense had 17 hits with doubles off the bats of Brittany Tanner, DaNisha Robinson and Jamie Dawson. The game ended after 5 innings...

OSWEGO -- Four athletes won six events for Uniontown in a season-opening track meet here Tuesday. Freshman Kelli Wilkinson won two events and set a new meet record when she completed the 3,200-meter run in 13 minutes, 49 seconds. She also ran the 1,600 meters in 6:34...

IOLA -- Fort Scott High's golf team showed a 21-stroke improvement over their first tournament of the season and finished sixth here Tuesday despite that one of its players had to miss the meet. The young team, which has four freshmen on the varsity, opened the season with a 417 at Independence but improved to 396 Tuesday...

SPRING HILL -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team captured the team title and finished no lower than second in the individual divisions at the Spring Hill Invitational here Tuesday. The Tigers finished with 9 team points while Spring Hill had 8 and Baldwin had 7. The fourth team, Lansing, did not score...

100 YEARS AGO (1911) Members of Company G went up against the annual inspection at the Armory. The grade given the local company is not yet known. Owing to the inclement weather the attendance was not as desired. Commander Capt. A. W. Snyder plans a big march to take place west of the city. The men are anxious for the march and a big turnout is expected...

Services for John Anthony Kasper, formerly of Fort Scott, were held at Vancil-Murphy Funeral Home in Springfield, Ill., on Saturday, March 26, 2011. John was born in Riverton, Ill., on July 5, 1934, to Theresa and Thomas Kasper Sr. and passed away on March 18, 2011, in Mabank, Texas, after a brave battle with cancer...

Dianna (Lee) Deere, age 52, a resident of Baldwin City, Kan., died April 5, 2011, at her home. She was born March 8, 1959, in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Frank and Virginia (Sheehy) Lee. She graduated from Fort Scott High School in 1977. She married Michael Deere on December 28, 1982, in Miami, Okla...

EISENBRANDT -- Mason and Andrea Eisenbrandt, Fort Scott, and brother Octavian, are proud to announce the birth of their son and brother Nehemiah Patrick Eisenbrandt. Nehamiah was born at 9:41 a.m., April 6, 2011 at Mercy Health Center. He weighed 6 pounds, 11.5 ounces at birth...

MAYCUMBER -- Jamie Bryan and Heath Maycumber, of Fort Scott, are proud to announce the birth of their son Maddox Montgomery Maycumber. Maddox was born at 10:45 p.m. on Jan. 25 at Mercy Health Center. He weighed 7 pounds 12 ounces and measured 21 inches in length at birth...

Daniel and Catherine Swanwick and brother Benjamin are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and sister Anna Cecelia Croft Swanwick. She was born at 3:26 a.m. April 1 at Inova Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, Va. She weighed 7 pounds, 4 ozs. at birth and was 20.5 inches long...

And now for the second part of my story -- the final season of our lives -- old age. Once you reach this stage, you aren't looking for the next bend in the road. No, you have been there, done that. We have reached that stage in our lives and instead of making memories, we tend to reflect on our past memories and experiences. I find people saying things like "all old people do is live in the past."...

Kansas high school and college students will be attending the 2011 SkillsUSA Masonry competition and the 3rd Annual Construction Trades Career Fair on April 8 at the Pittsburg Construction Trades Building, 1301 E. 27th Terrace, Pittsburg. Competition runs from 7:30 a.m.--12:30 p.m...

The negotiations are over, the details have been worked out and "all the paperwork has been signed on both sides" of a deal that will bring biodiesel production back on line in Vernon County, according to Prairie Pride board member and treasurer Al Decker...

With a $15,000 boost from the city, the Fort Scott Skatepark Committee is now half way toward its goal of raising $100,000. Fort Scott City Commissioners approved the $15,000 allocation to the committee at their meeting Tuesday, which will be used to build a skatepark. ...

The Fort Scott Community College Board of Trustees will has one newcomer in the wake of Tuesday's election. Local businessman Mark McCoy collected 1,416 votes in the race for three spots on the board -- the most of any of the four candidates -- to win his first term on the panel. Incumbents and longtime board members Robert Nelson and Jim Sather received 1,401 and 1,316 votes, respectively, to retain their seats...

Nearly 50 Fort Scott High School students were recognized for their academic successes during the annual Plus 5 Dinner on Monday at the school. Forty-nine students qualified to receive invitations to the dinner. The program began in 1991 to recognize students who were able to raise their third quarter grade .5 or above their cumulative grade point average...