Stories from Thursday, September 5, 2013

The Fort Scott City Commission passed a resolution during its regular meeting Tuesday which brings the construction of a new hotel one step closer. A public hearing was held in order to issue a taxable industrial revenue bonds for Sleep Inn and Suites Hotel...

Jason E. Silvers/Tribune photo Participants and their families watch their homemade boats float down the creek near Buck Run Community Center during the first-ever Fisher Park Regatta Race on Wednesday afternoon. Participants raced their boats made from materials such as wood, plastic or anything that floats. ...

The first day of jury selection for the trial of a local man charged with murder and arson following a 2011 incident brought questions from the judge and attorneys to potential jurors Wednesday morning. Bourbon County District Judge Mark Ward presided over the proceeding, which took place in the auditorium of the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center on the campus of Fort Scott Community College. ...

This year's Fort Scott freshman volleyball team can boast experience as the team heads into a new season. It's not often that freshmen can be considered veterans at the high school level but that's the case this year. Freshman head coach Jenna Campbell, who will be leading the program for the first time and is in her second year in coaching, and assistant Heather Karleskint welcome some seasoned players...

It's a new world for Fort Scott Middle School as athletic teams head back into interscholastic competition for the first time since 1983. With the volleyball teams, it will be a new experience. But the seventh- and eighth-grade squads will be shepherded along by a group of experienced coaches, led by Kelly Toll...

LOUISBURG -- Fort Scott High School's soccer team was shut out, 3-0, in its season opener here Tuesday at the hands of Louisburg. "We had lots of quality shots on goal and played well but fell short in the end," Tiger head coach Andrew Cline said of his head-coaching debut...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School's junior varsity tennis team went to Pittsburg Tuesday to play a pair of best-of-nine duals with two Purple Dragon JV teams. Pittsburg Purple defeated Fort Scott in the first dual, 9 matches to none. The Tigers won the second dual from Pittsburg White, 6-3...

OSWEGO -- The first varsity tournament of the season for Fort Scott High's girls golfers was also the first of the three Southeast Kansas League designated tournaments. And host Labette County holds the league lead in both team and individual standings after this tournament...

GIRARD -- Uniontown's varsity and JV volleyball teams split here Tuesday night. Both squads lost to Girard in 3 sets and defeated Erie in 3. Uniontown's varsity (5-2) lost to Girard, 25-27, 25-15, 25-17. Tyeesha Perry had 4 kills while Holly Shinn and Hannah Travis had 3 each. Britney Stokes dished 19 assists...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School's volleyball team opened its season with a split of a non-league triangular here Tuesday night. Chanute, a 2012 State Tournament qualifier and the defending Southeast Kansas League champion, swept the Tigers, 25-13, 25-12. Delane Gray and Brianne Lawrence had 3 kills each for Fort Scott while Ashley Cook handed out 9 assists. Maddi Allen came up with 7 digs and Katie Gorman had 5...