Stories from Saturday, March 17, 2012

Charlotte Elizabeth (Brehm) Graham, 100, passed away Thursday, March 15, 2012. She was the youngest of eight born to John Henry and Martha Elizabeth Brehm on July 17, 1911, in Spearville, Kan., Ford County. She married Ross Kirkhart Graham on Nov. 9, 1933. They had one daughter, Doris Kathryn Graham Ericson...

Wayne Timothy Linville, 51, resident of Fort Scott, died Wednesday, March 14, 2012, at the Olathe Medical Center in Olathe, Kan. He was born Oct. 21, 1960, in Fort Scott, the son of James Albert Linville and Doris Lorraine Bolling Linville. He was a graduate of Nevada High School...

Top winners of recent Bourbon County art show hail from Fort Scott and Nevada.

TOPEKA -- The Sisters of Mercy received a standing ovation Thursday on the Kansas Senate floor following the passage of a resolution honoring their 125-year health care ministry to the state. Senate Resolution No. 1834 was sponsored by Sens. Dwayne Umbarger, Bob Marshall, Pat Apple and Jeff King, all of whose districts are served by a Mercy hospital...

Of the 16 Head Start Centers and 34 classrooms in West Central's District, only the Nevada Head Start can boast that three of its classrooms have already met their in-kind grant match requirement for the year. Instead of sitting back and coasting through the rest of the year, Nevada Head Start is planning its boldest in-kind event ever...

If there are only six degrees of separation between everyone on Earth, Oda Keeney and her big Kansas heart are connected to untold thousands. Having lived in Fort Scott since 1945, she has served the community as a volunteer and through Bourbon County's K-State Research & Extension Office. It was only last year, when she turned 90, that she stopped giving her time...

Throughout February, second-graders at Winfield Scott Elementary School jumped for a good cause -- heart health. The students participated in the American Heart Association's Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser. Proceeds fund research, programs and education to fight heart disease and stroke, the nation's No. 1 and No. 3 causes of death...

Betty Hood, right, registers with Blake Hertzberg, of Hertzberg Furniture, for tickets to the "Passion Play" in Eureka Springs, Ark., at the 26th Annual Home and Leisure Show on Friday. The event is being held at the Nevada Middle School Gym and features 52 exhibitors. ...