Stories from Saturday, May 5, 2012

IOLA, Kan. -- Uniontown and Pleasanton's track teams took part in the Crest Invitational, held at Allen County Community College here Thursday. Pleasanton's team each finished second -- the girls to Hartford, the boys to Waverly. Uniontown's girls finished fifth while the boys came in eighth...

HUMBOLDT, Kan. -- Uniontown's baseball team suffered a sweep at Humboldt's hands here Thursday by scored of 10-0 and 11-1. Both games were stopped after five innings by the run rule. The Cubs (18-0) scored 3 runs in the third inning of the opener, and then added 7 more in the fifth. The only inning they did not score in during the second game was the second...

HUMBOLDT, Kan. -- Uniontown's softball team was swept in a non-league doubleheader by unbeaten Humboldt here Thursday by scores of 8-7 and 8-2. Defense appeared to be the problem for the Eagles (14-4). Only 6 of the 16 runs allowed by pitchers Taylor Wade and Mandie Ridge were earned...

COLUMBUS, Kan. -- Fort Scott High School's softball team moved into second place in the Southeast Kansas League even after only managing to split with Columbus here Thursday afternoon. Labette County clinched its third consecutive league championship by sweeping Parsons, which entered Thursday night in second place. ...

COLUMBUS, Kan. -- Fort Scott High School's baseball team posted its first doubleheader sweep since April 5 and just its second of the season here Thursday. The Tigers took care of Columbus in a pair of one-run decisions in Southeast Kansas League play, 5-4 in the opener and 4-3 in the nightcap...

Robert E. "Bob" Hess, 72, passed away May 2, 2012, in Benton, Kan., after losing his fight with pancreatic cancer. He was born in Fort Scott and graduated in 1959 from Uniontown High School. He was a retired aircraft painter. Survivors include his wife, Beverly; daughter, Phyllis (Mark) Robertson of Wichita; son, Bryan of Andover; grandchildren, Matt Robertson of Wichita, Taylor Hess of Andover, Paige Hess of Galesburg and Logan Robertson of Wichita; and his dog, Cody...

Vivian Anne Bloesser, 69, a resident of rural Richards, Mo., died Friday, May 4, 2012, at Fort Scott Mercy Hospital. She was born Jan. 28, 1943, in Nevada, Mo., the daughter of Otis H. Nichols and Sylvia McDaniel Nichols. Vivian married Larry Dean Bloesser on July 23, 1961, at Richards, Mo. ...

Margaret Johnson, 51, Moundville, Mo., passed away at her home on Friday, May 4, 2012. Family information and funeral arrangements will be announced later by Ferry Funeral Home, 301 S. Washington, Nevada. View obituary and send condolences on line at www.ferryfuneralhome.com...

The Nevada High School Band Boosters are hosting a farewell and thank-you dinner for high school and middle school band instructors Tom and Amanda Meyer on Friday, May 11, at the Marmaduke Park Community Building. The Nevada High School band director, Meyer, has accepted a position in Ozark, Mo., and he and his wife Amanda, who directs the middle school band, will be leaving the Nevada R-5 School district after 11 years of service. ...

Bourbon County Emergency Manager Keith Jeffers spoke with county commissioners about the possibility of placing a storm siren at Fort Scott Lake on Friday. Jeffers told commissioners that lake residents approached him about acquiring one of the sirens the city donated to serve people at the lake. After the city purchased and installed new sirens in March, it gave the existing sirens to the Emergency Management Office...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan., stopped in Fort Scott on Friday as part of her continuing Congress to Kansas tour. The congresswoman, who has served Kansas' 2nd Congressional District since 2009, hosted open office hours Friday morning at Fort Scott City Hall before traveling to LaCygne for her next stop. Jenkins has offered Congress to Kansas since she took office to keep constituents informed about her work in Congress...

Expect a rugby-like scrum among the three Republicans vying to succeed State Rep. Barney Fisher, R-Horton, in the Missouri General Assembly. With no Democrat in the contest, the Aug. 7 primary will be tantamount to election; and with the well-regarded Fisher endorsing Bates County Northern Commissioner Randy Pike, local hopefuls Barbara "Barb" York and Bill Yarberry face a tough go, especially with the prospect of their division of the Vernon County vote...

In honor of classmates Cheryl Metcalf and Libby Embry, graduates of the Fort Scott High School class of 1966 will share the responsibility of giving a speech at this year's Walk to End Alzheimer's May 19 in Pittsburg. Metcalf, 63, lost her battle with the disease on Dec. 30, 2011. Embry, Metcalf's best friend since ninth grade, has early stage Alzheimer's...