Stories from Friday, March 27, 2015

Jason E. Silvers/Tribune photo Local businessman Steve Buerge, left, and his wife Elaine, accept the 2015 Keystone Award from Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce board member Reta Baker and FSACC Executive Director Lindsay Madison during the chamber's annual dinner and awards celebration Thursday night at the Liberty Theatre. ...

Jill Warford, director of the Gordon Parks Museum/Center for Culture and Diversity at Fort Scott Community College, and local historian Arnold Schofield recently had a unique opportunity to view a collection of photographs taken by late Fort Scott native Gordon Parks...

Outdated, overpopulated, and unsafe - that is the condition of the current Bourbon County jail built in 1977, said Bourbon County Sheriff Bill Martin at apublic forum in Uniontown High School Tuesday evening. The $6,850,000 jail bond issue will be decided by county residents in the April 7 election...

UNIONTOWN -- Rebuilding with a young team is the task facing head coach Jeff Reed and assistant Brian Baker as Uniontown's baseball team was due to take the field for the first time Thursday in a tournament hosted by Northeast High School at Arma. Uniontown opened against the host school with Liberal, Mo., and St. Paul following. The third-place and championship games rounded out the night's action...

There are 39 girls out for softball this season at Fort Scott High School. But head coach Alvin Metcalf has known for quite some time now that two of them are likely to miss the entire season. However, there are four All-Southeast Kansas League picks coming back from last year's team, which won the Southeast Kansas League championship and finished third at the Class 4A-Division I State Tournament with a 17-8 record...