Stories from Saturday, August 31, 2013

The Bourbon County Commissioners on Friday adopted the FY 2014 budget. Terry Sercer of Diehl, Banwart, Bolton CPAs, PA of Fort Scott, presented the published budget to the commissioners. Because valuation has decreased, the budget has a 63.085 mill levy, which is an increase of 1.6 mills from 2013, he said...

For one local couple, it might be like being featured on an episode of an extreme home makeover reality TV show. Donald and Barbara Hammond, who have been living very simply the past several months at a local motel, hope to be able to move in soon to their home at 1403 S. Clark St., which was the first project chosen by the Bourbon County Long Term Recovery Committee for repairs following the April 7 hailstorm...

Acting Bourbon County Sheriff Bill Martin was officially sworn in by Bourbon County District Judge Mark Ward as the new sheriff Friday afternoon in the Bourbon County Courthouse. Earlier this month, the Bourbon County Republican Committee voted to submit Martin's name to Gov. ...

Robert Bruce, Jr., 55, of Fort Scott, died Friday afternoon, Aug. 30, 2013 at Mercy Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Margaret Elizabeth Neden, age 83, a former resident of Fort Scott, and more recently of Forsyth, Mo., died early Friday, Aug. 30 at her home in Forsyth. Rev. Mark Stetler will conduct funeral services at 10:30 Aa.m. Saturday, Sept. 7 at the Parkway Church of God (Holiness) 1111 State Ave., Fort Scott. ...

Della I. Hicks, 41, of Elsmore passed away peacefully Sunday, Aug. 24,2013, at the Cancer Treatment Center of America in Tulsa,Okla. Della was born March 12,1972, to Donald and Opal Chastain in Durango, Colo. She attended school in Hume, Mo. before moving to the Moran area...

Ray Dean Crim, age 68, resident of Mulberry, Kan., died Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, at his home. He was born Aug. 9, 1945, in Redfield, Kan., the son of Vergil Ross Crim and Pearl Inez Harvey Crim. He worked for many years for the Vanlerberg family as a construction foreman. ...

Uniontown played host to a junior varsity golf tournament at Woodland Hills Golf Course Thursday afternoon. The Eagles entered three golfers while Fort Scott put one in the tournament. Girard was the team champion with a nine-hole, four-woman score of 291. Frontenac finished second with 295 and Pomona-West Franklin was third among the three schools eligible for the team title with a 313...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team finished fourth out of five teams in a tournament that included three of the Southeast Kansas League's top programs at the Parsons Invitational here on a hot, windless Thursday. Independence won the team title with 13 points followed by Parsons with 11, Pittsburg 9, Fort Scott 7 and Coffeyville with no points...

Fort Scott High School head volleyball coach Carol Bingesser went into Friday's Red & White Scrimmage looking at her options at setter just in case sophomore Ashley Cook can't recover from a staph infection in time for Tuesday's season-opening triangular at Colgan...

The surface of Frary Field hasn't looked as good as it does right now in a long, long time. The right conditions this summer have made Fort Scott High School's home field look nice and green with a good, thick cover. And in field conditions -- so to speak -- Friday night, the Tigers looked just about as good as their field...