Stories from Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Note: This is second in a series on the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce Candidate Forum held Monday. Candidates for local city boards gave their thoughts on the statuses of their communities during Monday night's election candidate forum held at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center on the Fort Scott Community College campus...

USD 234 and USD 235, like other districts across the state, are preparing for the effects of Senate Bill 7, also called the block grant bill. SB 7, which was approved by the Kansas Legislature earlier this month and approved by Gov. Sam Brownback on March 25, repeals the current school finance formula and replaces it with a so-called block grant system for two years while lawmakers devise a permanent school funding system...

Note: This is the first in a series on a discussion with the architect for the proposed new jail. There are several issues driving the push to build a new jail in Bourbon County. On Wednesday, Larry Goldberg, president of Goldberg Group Architects PC of St. Joseph, Mo., talked about those issues prior to the final public forum to discuss the $6.8 million proposed bond issue...

Steven A. Lotterer passed away peacefully on the morning of March 8, 2015 after a courageous battle with liver disease at his home in Washington, D.C. Steve was born Aug. 10, 1957 in Fort Scott, Kan. to George S. Lotterer and Ernestine Bilyew Lotterer (Basel)...

Frances Glass Claiborne, age 85, a resident of rural Fort Scott, died early Monday, March 30, 2015 at the Medicalodge of Fort Scott with her family by her side. She was born Oct. 3, 1929, in Richmond, Va., the daughter of Benjamin Glass and Lena Dale Mayes Glass. ...

Richard V. Dahlgren, age 77, resident of Iola, Kan., died Tuesday, March 31, 2015, at the Girard Medical Center. Following cremation, graveside services for Richard Dahlgren will be held Friday, April 3, 2015 at 9 a.m. in the West Liberty Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of the Cheney Witt Chapel. Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guest book at cheneywitt.com...

UNIONTOWN -- Youth will be served as Uniontown's golf team once again enters the spring season without a senior. That's not been too much of a problem for the program and head coach Jason Tourtillott and may not be again this year as a solid core of golfers will represent the Eagles...

UNIONTOWN -- Interest is high in track this season for Uniontown High School, which is welcoming 22 athletes -- 15 boys and seven girls -- out for the 2015 season. "We are very excited about our numbers this year," Coach Jackie Hall, who started at Uniontown in 1982, said. "It's the largest number that we have had in some time."...

Fort Scott Community College's baseball team split a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader with Labette Sunday and swept Wentworth Military, Mo., in a non-conference twinbill Monday. Both were held at Lions Field. The conference split leaves the Greyhounds in ninth place in the Jayhawk East with a 7-13 record. They are one game behind both Independence and Highland, which are tied for seventh, and two games behind sixth-place Kansas City...

Fort Scott Community College's softball team went 2-2 over the weekend in games versus Region VI competition at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex. Friday, the 'Hounds swept Brown Mackie, 9-1 and 11-5. Saturday Cloud County came in and swept 7-5 and 7-0 in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play...

NEOSHO, Mo. -- Fort Scott Community College's baseball team played its fifth game in three days Tuesday and the outcome was probably what would be expected when a team that's played a lot of games in a short amount of time plays a nationally-ranked squad...

Fort Scott High School's softball team opened its season Tuesday night with a third-place finish in its annual home tournament. Tourney newcomer Ottawa won the championship, starting things off with a 22-4 rout of the Tigers in game one. They beat Spring Hill 6-1 in the championship game while Fort Scott went on to defeat Baxter Springs in the third-place game, 10-4...