Stories from Friday, May 10, 2013

MOUND CITY -- Uniontown's Jonathon Wheeler finished 10th here Monday to earn a medal in the Three Rivers League Golf Tournament at Sugar Valley Golf Course. Wheeler shot 45 on the front nine and 49 on the back to post a season-varsity-best score of 94...

WICHITA -- The eight best junior college baseball teams in Kansas will begin a four-to-five-day long battle for a berth in the NJCAA World Series beginning this morning at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium. The Region VI Tournament finals start at 10 a.m. with Fort Scott Community College (40-15) facing Neosho County (31-23) in a battle of Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division teams...

Fort Scott High School baseball and softball, originally scheduled for Thursday at Chanute, will try to get their final games of the regular season in today. Both programs' varsity and junior varsity teams were both set to play doubleheaders. Today's schedule for both sports will have a single JV game at 3 p.m. with varsity doubleheaders to follow...

Local residents who want to get a view of the agricultural side of business in the area will get that opportunity through an upcoming Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce-sponsored tour. On Thursday, May 23, the chamber will host "Behind the Scenes of the Farmers' Market," a tour that will feature several well-known vendors of the local market, which began its season this week...

Saturday, May 11, is the National Association of Letter Carriers food drive that will benefit the Beacon, 525 E. 6th St., an interfaith network that provides Bourbon County residents with food, shelter, clothing or other necessities. "They will pick up the food when they deliver the mail," said Bob Eckles, director of the Beacon...

Numerous women attended Ladies Night Out Wednesday, a Relay for Life fundraiser at Liberty Theatre. The highlights for the evening were several designer purses and bags and singer Alex Scimeca of Pittsburg

Daniel "Danny" Ward, 86, of Fort Scott, passed away Thursday morning, May 9, 2013 at Mercy Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

ReAnn Boyington, Fort Scott, and Shaundero Mathis, Leavenworth, are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Quiniyah Lashae Mathis born at 8:20 a.m. on May 7, 2013 at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott. Quiniyah weighed 5 pounds and 12 1/2 ounces and was welcomed by sibling, Essence Mathis...

Stephanie Morgan Mincks, Pleasanton, announces the birth of her daughter, Renesmee Anne Mincks, born at 12:23 p.m. on May 8, 2013 at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott. Renesmee weighed 7 pounds and was welcomed home by siblings Rylee Brooke and Weslie Lane...