Stories from Saturday, February 8, 2014

Dorothy Evelyn Hart, age 101, died Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, at her home in rural Fort Scott. Miss Hart had made her home in Fort Scott living with her niece for the past year and half. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 15, at the Harman Funeral Home in Rock Glen, Pa. ...

Evelyn Irene Kovacic, age 90, a former resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, at the Prairie Mission Retirement Village in St. Paul, Kan. She was born July 9, 1923, in Hiattville, Kan., the daughter of Jesse Bailey and Mattie Bell Barker Bailey. ...

Lucille M. Schurter, age 95, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., went to be with the Lord, one day short of her 96th birthday, on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, at Guest Home Estates. She was born Feb. 7, 1918, in Strawn, Ill., the daughter of David and Mary Peters Hartman. ...

Kenneth Edgar Stine, 81, of rural Iola, Kan., died Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, at his home. He was born May 23, 1932, in Uniontown, Kan., the son of Kenneth William and Mildred Agnes (Nutter) Stine. He grew up at Uniontown and graduated from Uniontown High School. Ken worked for area farmers in the Uniontown area and worked construction at Burlington...

Bonnie Rae Bailey, 61, of Nevada, Mo., formerly of Fort Scott, Kan., died Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 at Freeman Medical Center in Joplin, Mo. She was born on June 16, 1952 in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Harold and Eva (Bowen) Graham. She married Larry Bailey on Nov. 28, 1970 in Fort Scott...

Uniontown High School Homecoming royalty was crowned between Friday night's varsity games against Marmaton Valley.

As winter continues to drag on, and the county's salt supply becomes depleted, Bourbon County Roads and Bridges Director Jim Harris is shopping around for a better prices on material. He also is checking prices of switching to a different mixture to pretreat hard surface roads...

The Fort Scott City Commission approved purchases to help replace aging equipment used by city workers during their Friday morning meeting at City Hall. The commission unanimously approved spending a total of almost $300,000 to replace two dump trucks and repair a third dump truck for the streets department, and to replace two heavy-duty trucks for the city utility department. It was reported at the meeting the two departments often share equipment for their duties...

IOLA -- All four Fort Scott Middle School boys' basketball teams picked up wins over Iola here Thursday, including a very rare shutout by the eighth-grade "B" team's defense. The seventh-grade "A" team (6-4) beat Iola, 36-32, outscoring the Ponies 21-11 in the second half. Matt Campbell scored 12 points, Jordan Hall 7 and Tyler Gorman 6. Hall also had 5 rebounds...

ALTAMONT -- Labette County swept Fort Scott High's basketball teams in a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader here Friday night with the Grizzly girls stunning the No. 3-ranked Tigers, 75-55, and the No. 7-ranked LCHS boys taking a 55-53 win. Fort Scott girls (4-2 SEK, 9-4 overall) defeated Labette County by a 63-39 score at the FSHS gymnasium in December. ...

UNIONTOWN -- The Uniontown girls' varsity basketball team finished with a flurry, blowing the doors off a game that was knotted 22-22 midway through the third quarter, as the Eagles closed out the game on an extended 26-6 run, defeating Marmaton Valley, 48-28, Friday night in the first game of a Three Rivers League doubleheader...