Stories from Thursday, August 25, 2011

Keisha Deeann Phillips and Leo Stanton Brown, El Dorado, Kan., are proud to announce the birth of their son Bradley Alan Brown on Friday, July 1, 2011, at 3:38 p.m. at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, Kan. Bradley weighed 7 pounds. Maternal grandparents are Paul and Tina Phillips, El Dorado, Kan., formerly of Fort Scott, Kan. Paternal grandparents are Max and Pam Brown, El Dorado...

Carla Deniece Pillion, 41, 727 S. Judson, Fort Scott, was arrested by the Fort Scott Police Department on Aug. 23 at 9:30 a.m. for driving while suspended and released the same day at 10:23 a.m. on a $1,250 bond. Billy Wayne Kittler, 42, 115 Eddy, Fort Scott, was arrested on Aug. 23 at 11:03 p.m. by the Fort Scott Police Department for obstructing legal process and criminal carrying of a weapon and is still being held...

The nomination process for the FSA committee elections has been completed for this year. We appreciate the interest voters have shown in this process, and congratulate the nominees on their appointment to the ballot. FSA committees provide an important grassroots "connection" with USDA programs offered to the farm population of this area through programs like the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), Commodity Loan and Loan Deficiency Payment efforts, Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP), Direct and Counter-cyclical Program (DCP), Supplemental Revenue Assistance (SURE), etc.. ...

A retirement reception will be held for Russ Hughes from 2 p.m.-3 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26 at the City Hall Commission Meeting Room. Hughes has been employed by the city for 33 years. The public is invited to attend. There will be a majority of city commissioners present, but no city business will be conducted...

Due to unforeseen circumstances and recent hot weather, the next two concerts in the Friday Night Concert Series, sponsored by the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce Downtown Division, have been canceled. Event organizer Ralph Carlson said he and other key supporters of the concerts have recently experienced health issues. ...

Students are back at Fort Scott Community College. The fall semester began Monday and the parking lots and hallways are full again after the summer break. During the first week of school, FSCC has planned many activities to help acclimate students to college life and let them have a little fun, a news release said...

UNIONTOWN -- The city of Uniontown is prepping for a grand, old-fashioned party -- the 106th annual Old Settlers Picnic set for Sept. 3-5. The annual event is one of the oldest consecutive annual celebrations in Kansas, a news release said. The theme for this year's celebration is "God Bless America."...

Fort Scott Community College has an Australian connection this year. FSCC students, including international student Kate Atherton, a native of Australia, began classes Monday and have been participating in a variety of activities to welcome them back to campus...

About 35 people got to see what Fort Scott National Historic Site is made of -- literally -- during the "Crack Post of the Frontier" tour Saturday evening. FSNHS Ranger Barak Geertsen led visitors through the different buildings on site offering narration, interspersed with vignettes presented by reenactors...

New Fort Scott Community College head volleyball coach Lindsay Hill has been a winning coach in the Jayhawk Conference before. Hill, wife of FSCC head baseball coach John Hill, had an 85-71 record in four years at Neosho County Community College in Chanute from 2004-07. Her most recent job was as assistant to Pittsburg State head coach Ibraheem Suberu. In the last three seasons at Pitt State, Hill has been part of a program that's gone 67-37...

It was a sudden transition for new Fort Scott Community College head football coach Curtis Horton, who was given the reins of the Greyhound program the first week of July when Jeff Sims resigned for a recruiting position at Indiana University. But Horton got to work quickly, retaining key assistants, bringing in new ones and getting the players to believe that change -- but not too much -- will be a good thing...