Stories from Wednesday, May 7, 2014

UNIONTOWN -- The Uniontown High School baseball team dropped both games of a doubleheader, 13-2 and 5-3, against Oswego Tuesday afternoon here in Three Rivers League play. "We just didn't have very good mental focus," Uniontown head coach Jeff Reed said...

All three Mercy Clinic locations in Southeast Kansas have announced dates and times for middle school and high school sports physicals. Mercy Clinic Family Medicine Linn County located at 11155 Tucker Rd. in Pleasanton will offer free sports physicals on Saturday from 9 a.m.--1 p.m. Call (913) 352-8379 for an appointment...

The prestigious P.E.O. STAR Scholarship for the 2014-15 academic year was presented to Fort Scott High School senior Mady McColm during the FSHS awards ceremony Tuesday at the high school. The scholarship was presented to McColm by Linda Jackson and Jane Campbell, representatives of the local chapter of the P.E.O. Sisterhood...

The Fort Scott Community College volleyball team will host the first annual Fort Scott Color Jam 5K on May 24 at 9a.m. The run will be similar to the ever popular "The Color Run." The Fort Scott Color Jam 5K will also feature a one mile kids run. Registration online is now open at https://www.gorunyourrace.com/Event/Even......

Several new faces will be replacing long time employees in Bourbon County education facilities for next year. Seven employees of USD 234 are retiring, while there is one retiree at USD 235.Tom Davis, Kent Gant, Veda Gulick, Linda Jackson, Ruby Keith, Sheretta Parsons, and Tom Restivo are all retiring from Fort Scott...

The two community-based task forces formed in Fort Scott and Independence have held their first meetings and have begun their work, according to Reta Baker, president, Mercy Hospital Fort Scott. The task forces have been asked to identify and explore ideas for the future of Mercy's health care ministries in both communities...

A group of Fort Scott High School students shared their ideas for improving Fort Scott with the Fort Scott City Commission Tuesday evening. Six FSHS students -- Kristian Engle, Tim Higgins, Zach Wheeler, Akasha Boles, Emily Martin and Kim Ruhl -- presented ideas ranging from construction of a band shell at Gunn Park to repair of roads and sidewalks in certain areas in town. ...