Stories from Thursday, October 25, 2012

Editor's Note: This is part of a series of candidate profiles based on answers to a questionnaire sent out by the Tribune. ----- Republican Barbara Albright is running for the Bourbon County Commission District 2 seat vacated by Jingles Endicott in the Nov. 6 general election. Albright was born and resides in Fort Scott. She currently works at H&H Agency as a real estate sales associate...

Editor's Note: This is part of a series of candidate profiles based on answers to a questionnaire sent out by the Tribune. ----- Incumbent Ron Gray seeks to hold onto his job as Bourbon County Sheriff, a position he's held since 2008. Gray, a Republican, is running to keep his seat in the Nov. 6 general election. He was born in Missouri but has spent over half his life in Bourbon County. He has lived in Fort Scott and Redfield and currently resides in rural Fort Scott...

Local business owners and managers will get a chance to hear about potential effects of tax changes for businesses that will take effect in Kansas next year, and get some advice on year-end tax planning during a Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce-sponsored event next week...

After interviewing Mitt Romney for a position at Bain Capital, Ralph Willard was convinced Romney would be going into politics someday. Willard, a native Fort Scottian, with Bill Bain, formed the investment firm Bain, Willard Cos. They had broken off from Boston Consulting Group, where Romney was working following simultaneous completion of a master's degree in business administration and a law degree from Harvard University...

Siblings Erin Vann and Trisha Newton, both formerly Eldridges, have turned their love for all things creative into an interesting sister act of their own with their custom clothing and portrait photography business, eNVy Babies & KIds, 122 S. Main. The sisters said they have always been close, which can prove to be an asset as they spend long hours nurturing a growing business that opened one year ago in September...