Stories from Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Marsha Lancaster worked her way up through a business to become the owner. That business, Marsha's Great Plains Deli, last week celebrated its 30th anniversary. Lancaster's story began on Aug. 15, 1983, in the area known as Belltown, near the North National Avenue bridge. ...

The Fort Scott City Commission gave its approval Tuesday to begin the first step of a project that could bring quiet zones to Fort Scott. The issue of railroad quiet zones - which would eliminate trains from legally sounding their horns when approaching crossings, except in emergency situations - has been talked about in Fort Scott for several years. The quiet zones would be located at different intersections throughout town...

In the last month, parts of Bourbon County received up to 20 inches of rain. These periods of high intensity, short duration thunderstorms, resulted in flash flooding that eroded several county roads. While damaged roads are a challenge for the county, in decades past rainfall would have caused catastrophic flooding in the area, especially near the confluence of the Marmaton River and Mill Creek, just north of downtown Fort Scott...

Monday was the first day of practice not just for football, but for each of the other five fall sports Fort Scott High School sponsors: volleyball, girls' golf, girls' tennis, cross country and soccer. Fort Scott High head volleyball coach Carol Bingesser said she has 26 players out at the varsity/junior varsity level and another 18 freshmen. She will probably have eight on the varsity most of the season...

Sister Mary Victoria Clark, RSM, a Sister of Mercy for 78 years, was born on July 5, 1920, in Wichita, Kansas. Sister Victoria entered the Sisters of Mercy on Aug. 17, 1935, and professed final vows on Aug. 16, 1942. Sister attended Our Lady of Good Counsel Elementary School Kansas City, Mo., Novitiate High School, Webster Groves, Mo., and received a BA and MA in Nursing...

Local law enforcement authorities are searching for a local man wanted for aggravated assault and other alleged offenses. According to information released Tuesday by the Fort Scott Police Department and Bourbon County Sheriff's Office, officials are looking for 37-year-old Frank L. Miller, who is wanted for aggravated assault, fleeing and eluding officers and criminal threat...

Day two of practice for the Fort Scott Middle School interscholastic football program -- a cooler summer day than usual -- concentrated on defense. And there was a lot of teaching going on. Head coach Alvin Metcalf reported that 68 players are out for the first middle school interscholastic season since the middle 1980's, when the program was switched to intramurals. ...