Stories from Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Marian Cox Fearing, 84, of Bay Village, Ohio passed away on Sept. 29, 2013. Marian was born in rural Linn County, Kan., one of six children of Clyde and Suzie Zimmerman Cox. She graduated from the University of Kansas. She made her career in real estate accounting, was a world traveler, a genealogist, a gardener, a community volunteer and a bridge player. ...

Clarence William Cooper, age 82, a former resident of Arma, and more recently of Mulberry, Kan., died early Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013, at the Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg, Kan. He was born Nov. 12, 1930, in Joplin, Mo. He married Ruth Ann Allen and she preceded him in death. ...

Clara Mae Bruner, 78, Topeka, passed away Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 at Brewster Place. Clara was born Dec. 21, 1934 in Stark, Kan., the daughter of Chester and Naomi (White) Ludlum. She graduated from Uniontown High School in 1952. She was employed with CoreFirst Bank & Trust, where she worked until 2007. She was a very active member of First Christian Church, where she sang with the choir and helped with Vacation Bible School...

The Fort Scott Community College Theatre Department is preparing for the curtain to rise on its fall production of "Godspell," a musical that debuted in the early 1970s. Performances for the show are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the theater of the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center on the FSCC campus, 2108 S. Horton St...

The USD 235 Board of Education is moving forward with the technology update started at the beginning of the school year. Beginning at the second semester, or sooner, West Bourbon Elementary sixth and third grade students will receive iPad Minis and proceed with a pilot program of using them for educational instruction...

James Leeper's hard work over the last 15 years earned him some recognition during Tuesday night's meeting of the Fort Scott City Commission. Leeper, a client at Tri-Valley Developmental Services, received a plaque and certificate honoring him for his years of service with the Fort Scott police and fire departments during a brief presentation at the start of the meeting...

WICHITA -- Fort Scott Community College's basketball teams were picked to finish in the bottom half of the Jayhawk Conference's newly-created division for the league's Division II teams in a pre-season poll revealed here Monday. Fort Scott, Highland, Johnson County and Kansas City Kansas have been removed from the Eastern Division and placed in a new division called "East Division II." The league's old divisions have also been realigned so that Butler becomes the seventh team in the Eastern Division with the other Division I teams. ...

CHANUTE -- Fort Scott High School's girls golf team will not have any qualifiers for this year's Class 4A State Tournament. The Tigers were unable to battle both the course and the weather here at the Chanute Class 4A Regional Tournament as the team missed out on one of the three qualifying places and the best individual finish missed qualifying by 6 strokes...

This version corrects an error made in the print version which stated that Chanute will be in the Fort Scott Sub-State.