Stories from Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Improvements will be made to Maple Road in the near future, but the work may not include all the Bourbon County Commissioners had hoped for. On Monday, the commissioners and Public Works Director Jim Harris discussed an email they received last week about the project from Frank Young, engineer of Agricultural Engineering Associates of Uniontown...

The Meals on Wheels program in Bourbon County keeps rolling, serving hot, fresh meals to dozens of local senior citizens every day. Representatives of the program, offered through the Bourbon County Senior Center, 26 N. Main St., said they wish to address recent news reports regarding outbreaks of illness among recipients of meals through the Meals on Wheels program in the Chanute area in Neosho County...

Robert "Bob" McGee, age 78, La Cygne, Kan., passed away on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. Funeral service will be 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 30, 2015 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, La Cygne Chapel. Burial will be in the East Mt Zion Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. ...

Like the canvases she so thoughtfully created, artist Sandie Cole lived her 49 years full of color and energy. God commissioned her for celestial work on Jan. 26, 2015. Sandra Sue Turpin was born to John Franklin Turpin and Libbie Anita "Ann" Turpin on Jan. ...

Stephen Russell Johnson, age 62, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died from cardiac complications on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015, at Mercy Hospital. He was born July 12, 1952, in Paola, Kan., the son of Russell and Lena Wheeler Johnson. He attended high school in Pleasanton, Kan. ...

Leslie Elmer Judy, age 56, a resident of Vidor, Texas, died Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, at his home in Vidor. He was born July 26, 1958, in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Elmer Judy Jr. and Ella Gates Judy. Les graduated from Fort Scott Christian Heights and later from Pittsburg State University. ...

Fort Scott High School freshmen boys' basketball team lost to Iola in the finals of the Iola Tournament Monday night by a score of 43-34. Jessie Lawrence led the Tigers with 9 points while Jessie Jones and Gunnar Brown each scored 8. In a first-round game on January 20, the Tigers defeated Prairie View by 20 points, according to coach Dustin Wiley. In that game, Lawrence scored 16 points and Jones 15...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Uniontown High School's wrestling team competed in a tournament hosted by Piper High School here Saturday and emerged with two second-place finishers. John Emerson took second at 145 pounds. He won all three matches in his preliminary pool. He pinned Nathan Taylor of Meriden-Jefferson West and Austin Markovich of Shawnee-Mill Valley. In between those matches, Emerson took an 11-7 decision from Brandon Lewis of Jayhawk-Linn...

UNIONTOWN --The third quarter of both games were big for Jayhawk- Linn's team in a Three Rivers League doubleheader here Tuesday night. The girls defeated host Uniontown, 47-34, after outscoring the Eagles 19-3 in the third. Jayhawk boys beat Uniontown, 48-22, after posting a 22-7 advantage in the third...