Stories from Saturday, August 23, 2014

The Bourbon County Commissioners are spending the weekend reviewing the 2015 budget before giving their official approval for publication. As of Friday, the county's budget does not have a mill levy increase. "That is remarkable you have the same mill levy. ...

City officials are taking steps to transform the old Western Building on First Street into a community asset. Property developers Tony Krsnich and Alex Hodges representing Flint Hills Holdings Group, LLC, a company that purchased the long-vacated, dilapidated building in June for one dollar at a local tax sale, were introduced to Fort Scott City Commissioners during their Tuesday meeting. ...

Former Fort Scott Community College football great Cliff Frazier, a member of the 1972 NJCAA national championship runner-up team, passed away at the age of 61 on Sunday, Aug. 17 while in palliative care due to lung cancer at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo...

Fort Scott Community College's volleyball team, led by its four sophomores and a few of its freshmen, won its first two matches in its home tournament Friday at Arnold Arena. First, the Greyhounds dominated Wentworth Military Academy (Mo.) in three sets, 25-7, 25-5, 25-12. Then they downed Pratt, a Division I team, in the last match of the night, 25-21, 25-18, 23-25, 25-19...