Stories from Friday, May 8, 2015

Doris Lorraine Sorrells, a former resident of Fort Scott, Kan., and more recently of Nixa, Mo., died Tuesday, May 5, 2015, at the Christian Health and Rehabilitation Center of Nixa. She was born Jan. 15, 1931, in East Troy, Wis., the daughter of Merle Shields and Lillian Morgan Shields. ...

Anor Christina Lemmon, age 86, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Tuesday, May 5, 2015, at her home. She was born Oct. 23, 1928, in Bronson, Kan., the daughter of Melvin and Elizabeth McLellan Popp. She graduated from Bronson High School. She married Leonard Lee Lemmon on Feb. ...

Fort Scottians gathered Thursday morning for a service in commemoration of the National Day of Prayer. Songs were sung, prayers given and Tim Woodring spoke about God's goodness to him in his diagnosis of a brain tumor last year. Woodring's health scare began with not knowing familiar things and having headaches, and ended up with surgery on his brain for what doctors said was a tumor, but turned out to be an infection...

USD 234 officials have run into a change in planned work to be done this summer as part of the district's $40.8 million school bond projects. USD 234 Superintendent Bob Beckham said this week that HVAC and mechanical work originally scheduled to be done at Fort Scott High School this summer will be put off until summer 2016. The work was part of a bid package that also includes demolition of the old Juco wing at the high school...

New information has been released about an incident involving the arrest of a Fort Scott man in connection with the death of a 6-month-old boy. A press release issued Tuesday from the Fort Scott Police Department omitted information regarding the location of where the incident took place...

Loretta George/Tribune photo Riverfront Loop Road is pictured from the U.S. 69 overpass on Monday. Contractors are working on the base of the road, which will eventually be asphalt, according to Jerry Witt, chairman of the Riverfront Authority Board. ...

Fort Scott High School's junior varsity golf team finished 20 strokes ahead of tournament host Uniontown in what was basically a dual in team competition at the Eagles' home junior varsity tournament at Woodland Hills Golf Course Tuesday. The Tigers shot 234 as a team over nine holes while Uniontown shot 254. They were the only schools with full teams...

COFFEYVILLE -- The last of the four Southeast Kansas League designated tournaments finished with something of a variety of outcomes here Tuesday. The top two golfers in the SEK remained so afterward despite each one shooting unusually-high scores for them. But Labette County's Austin Krewson and Fort Scott's Conner Antonetti had such an advantage on the rest of the field going in that their difficulties didn't cost them any position on the table...

nt nine and 48 on the back to finish with a 10th-place score of 91 as Uniontown hosted its home invitational at Woodland Hills Golf Course in Fort Scott Thursday. The Eagles had just three individuals here and so were not eligible for team scoring. Jayhawk-Linn was the team champion with a score of 350 over 18 holes. Erie was second at 367 and Yates Center was third at 391...