Stories from Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The annual Fort Scott Community College Scholarship Auction and Casino Night last week brought in about $17,000 for the FSCC Endowment Association and college scholarships. The "Casino Chips for Scholarships" Endowment Auction, which took place Friday night in the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center on the FSCC campus, grossed about $23,000 and netted about $17,000, after all expenses such as costs of food and rental of gaming equipment were figured in, organizers said...

Plans for the National Teacher Appreciation Day were discussed during a special USD 234 Board of Education meeting late Tuesday afternoon at the USD 234 Administrative building. The discussion involved each board member contributing $47 each for a "token of appreciation" that will be hand-delivered by board members to district schools on May 6, according to board member Jamie Armstrong. ...

In order to add more services to taxpayers who need to pay the remainder owed on their 2013 taxes, the Bourbon County Treasurer's Office will extend its hours and add remote collection sites. The second half of property taxes is due May 12. Beginning Thursday, the Treasurer's Office will have extended hours, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday...

Members of the seventh and eighth-grade Orchestra were on full display Tuesday night during Fort Scott Middle School's Orchestra and Band Spring Concert. The Orchestra performed under the direction of Sonja Weast, while the band was directed by James Fox...

Laurabelle Jump, age 98 a long time resident of Neodesha, Kan., and more recently of Fort Scott, Kan., died Monday, April 28, 2014 at the Medicalodge in Fort Scott, Kansas. She was born June 23, 1915, in Independence, Kan., the daughter of Edwin Tucker Dewey and Laura Belle Boston Dewey. ...

UNIONTOWN -- Uniontown's boys won the team title of their home track and field invitational Monday afternoon while Shalina Harper was a double winner for Eagle girls. Uniontown's boys scored 142 team points to finish well ahead of runner-up Chetopa's 80. Jayhawk-Linn won the girls' title with 194 points while the Eagles' two-girl varsity squad managed fourth with 49...

COFFEYVILLE -- Fort Scott High's softball team has clinched no worse than a share of the Southeast Kansas League championship following a sweep of Coffeyville here Monday evening. The defending league champs are 10-0 in the SEK, 11-5 overall. Second-place Independence is 4-2, 10-3. ...

Teresa Klumpp, Fort Scott Tribune office manager, shot a video of Sunday's tornado near Hammond. Klumpp was about one mile east of the Kansas-Missouri border, directly east of where the tornado derailed a train near the U.S. 69 and Soldier Road intersection...