Stories from Saturday, October 25, 2014

After lengthy discussion and debate, the Bourbon County Commissioners voted Friday to waive permit fees and provide an in-kind contribution to the City of Fort Scott for culvert work at the LaRoche Baseball Complex under construction at the industrial park southeast of Fort Scott...

The 2014 Ebola epidemic may leave local residents wondering if Bourbon County is prepared should there be an outbreak of the virus in the area. Local health and emergency officials said this week the county has a plan and is prepared for an Ebola outbreak, should one occur...

Loretta George/Tribune photo Winfield Scott Elementary School kindergartners watch Harriet, the Harris Hawk, during a presentation of the Pittsburg State University Nature Reach Program Wednesday in the school cafeteria. Delia Lister carries Harriet on her arm and allows the children to view the hawk closely by walking through the aisles. ...

Richard Harvey Culbertson was born Nov. 30, 1933 in Los Angeles, Calif. He died Oct. 20, 2014. Richard moved with his family to Sheldon, Mo., at the age of 13. He attended College in Lincoln, Neb., and later moved back to California, then to Baker City, Oreg., then to Texas. He married Glenmar Joyce Seiver in 1956. To that union was born five children. He was predeceased by Glenmar in 1991. In 1997, he moved to Arcadia, Kan., and married a longtime friend, Shirley Moore Pepe...

Thomas Allen Spainhoward, age 68, of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, at St. Luke's Hospital. He was born April 21, 1946, in Savonburg, Kan., to Virgil and Verna Oxford Spainhoward. He was the youngest of three children. Tom spent his childhood years in Uniontown, Kan., graduating from Uniontown High School in 1964. ...

UNIONTOWN --Uniontown scored on its first four possessions and didn't have much trouble with visiting Pleasanton here Friday night, rolling 56-8 in a score-shortened game that ended at halftime on Senior Night. Eight-man football games are called when the margin reaches 45 points at halftime or any point after...

Fort Scott High clinched a Class 4A-Division I playoff berth Friday night when the Tigers routed Labette County, 49-12, and Paola got by at Chanute in overtime, 21-20. Paola, which also clinched, will host Fort Scott next Friday night in a game that will simply determine which one gets to play a first-round home game and which one will have to go on the road to begin its State championship quest...