Stories from Wednesday, October 5, 2011

YATES CENTER -- Uniontown junior varsity volleyball swept Humboldt, 25-5, 25-5, Yates Center, 25-10, 25-10, and Cherryvale, 25-7, 25-7, Monday night. Mandie Ridge had 2 kills against Humboldt and 9 versus Cherryvale. Brit Stokes had 5 kills against YCHS...

ALTAMONT -- Fort Scott High School's JV volleyball team defeated Independence, 25-13, 25-20, and lost to Labette County, 30-28, 25-21, Thursday. Kelsey Simons served 4 aces against Indy while she and Jillian Lattimer had 6 kills each. Meredith Hill delivered 17 assists. Rikki Buller had 12 digs for the Tigers (13-9) against Labette County. Jessie Combs had 5 kills...

RIVERTON -- Fort Scott High School's soccer team pounced on Riverton, 8-0, in a non-league contest here Monday, winning its fourth game in its last 5 outings. Don Savage scored four goals for the Tigers (8-5), raising his total to 19 for the season, which is four shy of the school record with three games -- all at home -- remaining in the regular season...

GARNETT -- Area golfers played one last regular-season tournament here Monday as they prepare for Regional Tournament play next Monday. Uniontown's team finished sixth out of nine at the Anderon County Invitational, an 18-hole affair, with a four-woman score of 431. Fort Scott finished eighth at 461...

Doris Ann Howell, 97, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011, at her home. Services will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main.

Jessica and Chris Jones, Nevada, Mo., along with siblings Jah'ziah, Jaedon and Jacob, are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter and sister Thaily Alunya Jones on Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, at 9:07 a.m. at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott. Thaily weighed 6 pounds, 15 ounces...

Samantha Dawn Fowler, 22, 245th St., Fort Scott, was arrested by the Fort Scott Police Department at 3:28 a.m. Tuesday for possession of hallucinogenics and released at 5:31 a.m. the same day on a $1,250 bond. Daymond Wayne Beck, 29, 6741 Walldren, Kansas City, Mo., was arrested by the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office at 11:09 a.m. Monday on a Bourbon County warrant for driving under the influence and is still being held...

The Arcadia High School class of l945 was unique in many ways, but especially because it was the World War II class. In December of l941, the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor. In August of l945, two atomic bombs ended the war. In those four years, the class endured gas rationing, sugar shortages, no tires for their parents' cars, deaths of older former students and other deprivations...

Dear Editor: The first Annual Christmas in the Park/TCC Golf Tournament was held on Saturday,Sept. 10, at the Woodland Hills Golf Course in Fort Scott. This event provided entertainment for all, as well as allowing the Gunn Park Committee the opportunity to obtain proceeds to use toward the annual...

100 YEARS AGO (1911) In the middle of the afternoon, during in the rush of news-getting and news-setting, the Tribune-Monitor was left without power or gas for fuel, both of which are required to print this paper. The Gas & Electric Company was compelled to make a gas main connection at 2 o'clock this afternoon, and to do so all gas was shut off. ...

"Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?" -- Sophocles Last month my column was entitled "Happiness is," which I thoroughly enjoyed writing, so I decided to provide the opposite perspective and discuss "Happiness isn't" in the field of intellectual disabilities...

The Gordon Parks Celebration will feature musician Mario E. Sprouse as a speaker and performer during the eighth edition of the occasion, Oct. 7-8 at Fort Scott Community College. Sprouse was the longtime music collaborator with Parks and will speak about this relationship at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, in the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center theater. The event is free and open to the public...

Two separate injury accidents occurred on local roads this past weekend. A Fort Scott man was injured in a one-vehicle accident Saturday morning on Kansas Highway 7. Tanner J. Odell, 23, Fort Scott, who was driving a 1993 F250 pickup truck west on K-7, was hurt when he fell asleep at the wheel and the vehicle entered the north ditch and struck a culvert. ...

The eighth annual Gordon Parks Celebration will present a workshop on diversity titled "How Do We Embrace Diversity?" at 3 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 7, in the Ellis Family Fine Arts Center meeting rooms. Understanding, valuing, and using the differences in every person is the basis of embracing diversity -- in the workplace, in school and in society, a news release said...

The Cottey-in-Motion (CoMotion) Dance Company from Cottey College, Nevada, Mo., will perform for Fort Scott Middle School students as part of the eighth annual Gordon Parks Celebration from noon-3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, at the middle school, 1105 E. 12th St. The event is sponsored by funding from the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation...

In 1920s and 30s Kansas City, many of the police officers had criminal records. The city itself was known as Tom's Town, after its political boss, Tom Pendergast. This is the Kansas City presented in the new book "Pendergast's Retaliation: A True Cold Case File" by Carolyn Clyde Dolan and Shirley Clyde McCullough...

Midwestern Holdings LLC and Landmark National Bank invite chamber members to a Chamber After-hours event at the Fort Scott Professional Building from 5:15 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6. The event will feature a wine and cheese tasting in addition to other offerings...

During the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce downtown fall festival, held on Sept. 17, a new contest was held for the first time. The scarecrow design competition was created for local elementary and middle school students to show their creativity. Students made two- or three-dimensional scarecrows for a chance to win a $25 or $50 cash prize...

Fort Scott city commissioners on Tuesday heard concerns about handicap parking and quality of life in two different neighborhoods. George Areu and Lyn Dodson who live on South Eddy Street said their neighborhood has a "drug house" and has seen recent break-ins and suspicious fires. Although police are called, they said nothing has changed...

Between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Tuesday morning, motorists on U.S. Highway 69 were forced to drive through a cloud of smoke when entering Fort Scott from the south as a semi-truck ignited a grass fire. According to Kansas Highway Patrol Master Trooper Brad Carpenter, a semi-truck, traveling northbound on U.S. ...