Stories from Thursday, February 27, 2014

Bob Beckham, second from left, Fort Scott High School principal, and Bob Garner (right), vice president and market manager of Landmark National Bank, discuss various aspects of the Workforce Development Group's peer mentoring program with the parents of students who have signed up to be mentored. The discussion took place Wednesday evening at the Fort Scott High School commons...

The Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Center seeks to help link job seekers to available jobs in the area during an upcoming job fair at Fort Scott Community College. The chamber will host a job fair on Wednesday, March 5 at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center on the FSCC campus, 2108 S. Horton St. Several local employers with a variety of different open positions have registered for the job fair, scheduled to take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and from 4 to 6 p.m...

The Fort Scott Tribune will reduce its publication frequency to four times a week, beginning with the first week of March. We will no longer print and deliver a Thursday edition. Just as individual customers of the postal service have seen the cost of postage to mail their letters and packages increase, so too have we seen the impact of the cost hike on the daily mailing of our newspaper...

The 2012-13 Fort Scott Community College athletic credit hour report was made available and discussed during the FSCC Board of Trustees regular meeting Monday night. FSCC Athletic Director J.D. Ettore was present for the report but did not speak. The report includes a revenue per credit hour and total expense breakdown of seven FSCC athletic programs plus the FSCC Spirit Squad. ...

A light dusting of snow came overnight to the area, as shown at Fort Scott National Cemetery Wednesday morning. The high temperatures for the next few days will be in the 30s to 40s with snow showers and a wintry mix forecast for the weekend, according to weather.com...

Sub-State tournaments for classes 4A through 1A were seeded Wednesday. Fort Scott High's basketball teams are both third-seeded in the Spring Hill Class 4A-Division I Sub-State while Uniontown's girls will have a home game Monday night in the opening round of the Yates Center Class 2A Sub-State. Uniontown's boys will be on the road Tuesday night...