Stories from Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Maybelle Woolston, age 90, Mound City, Kan., passed away on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014. Funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014 at the Mound City First Baptist Church. Burial will be in the Woodland Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. ...

Richard E. "Dick" Shores, age 77, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Monday, Nov. 17, 2014, at Fort Scott Manor. According to Dick's wishes, there will be no funeral service. Private family burial will take place in the Osawatomie, Kansas Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott, Kansas 66701. Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook at cheneywitt.com...

Keith Raymond Needham, age 69, Mound City, Kan., passed away Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014. He was born on the family farm near Mapleton on Jan. 30, 1945, the son of Alvin and Lucy Smith Needham. He graduated from Blue Mound High School and received a bachelor's degree in education from Pittsburg State University. ...

Elizabeth Jane Taiclet, age 90, a former resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, at the Medicalodges in Girard, Kan. She was born Jan. 12, 1924, in Jet, Okla., the daughter of Guy Carlton Cook and Nellie Amanza Graves Cook. She married Alvin Taiclet on Jan. ...

Robert Anton Smetana, age 92, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Friday, Nov. 14, 2014, at the Medicalodges in Fort Scott, Kan. He was born Nov. 12, 1922, in Berwyn, Ill., the son of Joseph Smetana and Gertrude Meulhausen Smetana. Bob served with the United States Army during World War II where he was stationed in Europe. ...

LeOne Cullor, 82, of Fort Scott, died Sunday afternoon, Nov. 16, 2014 at the Mercy Hospital in Joplin, Mo. She was born March 19, 1932 in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Clyde and Blanche (Seeley) McCreedy. She married James Cullor August 31, 1948 in Fort Scott, Kan., and he preceded her in death July 1, 2000...

Local law enforcement personnel dealt with a number of vehicle accidents due to slick roads caused by freezing temperatures and the season's first snow over the weekend. Fort Scott Police Department Capt. Shaun West said police responded to three weather-related vehicle accidents inside the city limits on Saturday. West said the three incidents were "fender-benders" with only minor damage and no injuries reported...

Green plants are a concern for gardeners, with the first snowfall landing on trees and shrubs that have not yet lost leaves. The region experienced a warm October, with trees turning fall colors past the Oct. 15 frost date for the area. In fact some trees are just beginning to turn...

The Bourbon County Commissioners are still discussing whether to spend money to obtain geological samples from the site of a proposed new rock quarry. On Nov. 7, Public Works Director Jim Harris presented the commissioners a proposed agreement with Terracon of Kansas City to do three core samples at the Bailey farm, where commissioners are considering developing a new rock quarry. ...

Ten contestants competed for the title of "Miss-ter Bourbon County" during a fundraising event held Saturday night at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center on the Fort Scott Community College campus. Each of the contestants competed in honor of a cancer survivor, with all proceeds from the event benefiting the Care to Share/The Sharing Bucket cancer support organization...

UNIONTOWN -- Numbers are a bit thin for the girls' basketball team at Uniontown Junior High but the Eagles will again work to build a solid foundation with player improvement, focusing on honing skills for the high-school varsity program. Paula Coyan again leads the team and will primarily work with the eighth grade while assistant coach Julie Schafer will focus her work with the seventh grade...

Fort Scott Community College's men had to rally from a halftime deficit before finally defeating the Southwestern College junior varsity at Arnold Arena Saturday afternoon, 80-77 in double overtime. Fort Scott (4-3) led 24-19 with eight minutes left in the first half but trailed 37-33 at the half. The Greyhounds were down by 7 points, 53-46, with 9:50 left in regulation...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Fort Scott Community College's women are off to the program's best start in eight seasons, improving to 6-1 after beating Penn Valley and Ellsworth (Iowa) over the weekend in the Kansas City Kansas Classic. Fort Scott has six wins in its first seven games for the first time since the 2006-07 season, the first of Stasha Richards' tenure. The Greyhounds lost their next two that year and finished 13-15...

PITTSBURG --Three girls' teams and four boys' squads received first-place votes as the results of Three Rivers League coaches polls were released by KSHQ Radio in a media conference at the WATCO Building here Monday. Only four teams received top-three votes on the girls' side, but those four are separated by only nine points in the voting. ...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School's boys were picked to finish third by league coaches in polls released here Monday morning while Tiger girls were tabbed for sixth place. KSHQ Radio tabulated the polls for the annual media conference, held in Pittsburg's WATCO building. Coaches could not vote for their own teams...