Stories from Monday, June 1, 2015

SALINA -- Rose Hill denied Fort Scott High's baseball team a State Tournament trophy for the consecutive season, defeating the Tigers, 5-4, in 10 innings in the rain-delayed first round of the Class 4A-Division I State Tournament at Dean Evans Stadium here Sunday...

WICHITA -- Uniontown athletes continued competition at the Kansas State Track and Field Championships here Saturday with four events on the agenda. Uniontown's boys 4x100-meter relay team competed in the finals mindway through the afternoon and won a seventh-place medal as the team of senior Cole Schafer and juniors Tommy Joles, Josh Wisely and John Reed turned in a time of 46.50 seconds. ...

WICHITA -- It was a lot chillier than expected here Saturday when the Kansas State Track and Field Championships resumed for its second day of action. Temperatures in the mid-50s greeted athletes and spectators alike. Fort Scott junior Cassidy Westhoff's rivalry with Girard's Callie Logue continued in the Class 4A 1,600-meter finals with the Trojan sophomore once again winning, this time in 5:06.38. ...

Bertha Mae Hayward, age 91, formerly of Stockton, Mo., received her heavenly reward May 30, 2015. She was born Dec. 17, 1923, in Dade County, Mo., near Greenfield, the daughter of Lawrence Berry and Nancy Ann (Montgomery) Jennings. Since July 2010, she had been lovingly cared for at the Ash Grove Healthcare Facility, Ash Grove, Mo...

Brenda Lea Coffman, age 70, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Saturday, May 30, 2015, at her home. She was born Sept. 14, 1944, in Fort Scott, the daughter of Orel H. Gibson and Esther Bolling Gibson. Brenda graduated from Fort Scott High School with the class of 1963. ...

Josephine M. Kemp, age 78, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Friday, May 29, 2015, at the Golden Living Center in Pittsburg, Kan. She was born on Dec. 22, 1936, in Cherokee, Kan., the daughter of Frank and Vesta Sells Ruggero. She married Jesse Kemp on June 30, 1957, in Pittsburg, Kan. ...

During her first day on the job Monday, Fort Scott Community College President Alysia Johnston visits the Rodeo Practice Facility with newly elected Endowment Board President Jim Fewins. He was an integral part of the effort to build the practice facility. They are standing in front of trophy cases destined to house the 40 years of awards brought home by FSCC students. The cases were designed and built by Chris Jones...

Groups of volunteers dodged rain long enough throughout the weekend to spruce up numerous houses along the East Wall Street corridor. Several groups of volunteers representing local churches, businesses and organizations assembled to complete cosmetic work on houses along East Wall Street as part of a property improvement blitz organized by the Good Neighbor Action Team (GNAT)...