Stories from Friday, September 25, 2015

Fort Scott High School Senior Clare Gorman, 17, has realized a goal she set for herself early in her school years. She is a semifinalist in the National Merit Scholarship Program. The National Merit Scholarship Program (NMSP) is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships that began in 1955. ...

Wednesday was "a happy day" at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott. Within five minutes, word spread among the employees that Mercy Hospital services would continue in Fort Scott. The Mercy Ministry Board in St. Louis met Wednesday to discuss the outcome of the Mercy Fort Scott discernment process that began in the spring of 2014...

This is the game that Uniontown's seniors have been waiting for. They've never beaten two-time defending Three Rivers League champion Chetopa. The last couple of seasons, the Hornets (1-2 TRL and overall) have been the high-scoring bully in the league. But while Chetopa was capable of putting as many as 80 points on the board on a given night, the Green Hornets had a complimentary defense...

Fort Scott High travels to Coffeyville Friday night to take on a Field Kindley High School team desperately seeking a victory. The Golden Tornado are 0-3 in the league and overall, a very unusual position for them. Coffeyville hasn't been 0-3 since 1997 -- a season in which it did not win a game...

The good news is that Fort Scott Community College's run through three nationally-ranked teams in three weeks is over. After playing teams with a combined record of 11-1, the schedule eases up considerably. Going into this week, the only one of the Greyhounds' remaining opponents with a winning record is Dodge City...

Fort Scott Middle School volleyball started the week with home matches on consecutive nights. Monday, the Tigers hosted Coffeyville-Roosevelt. Tuesday, Chanute-Royster was the visitor Fort Scott Middle School's volleyball teams captured three of four against Roosevelt with the seventh-grade A Team and both eighth-grade teams prevailing...

ST. PAUL -- Uniontown High's varsity volleyball team split a pair of Three Rivers League matches here Tuesday night. The junior varsity team won both of its matches. Against St. Paul, Uniontown (2-2 TRL, 8-6 overall) dropped the first set 25-18 and was closer in the second but couldn't pick up the win, losing 25-23...

Fort Scott High School's tennis team won its home tournament Tuesday with undefeated entries in three of the four divisions. The Tigers scored 10 team points. Labette County and Independence each had 7 but LCHS won the tiebreaker for second. Columbus did not score and finished fourth...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott Community College's volleyball team swept last-place Labette in three sets here Wednesday night, 25-18, 26-24, 25-23. The Greyhounds, who were moved down five spots to No. 18 in this week's NJCAA Division II poll, improved to 2-2 in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play and 16-5 overall...

Thursday evening, Fort Scott High's volleyball team played its first Southeast Kansas League games of the season. These were also the last home matches of the season. So that meant it was also Senior Parent Night. And since there are no home matches in October, it was also Dig Pink Night, when the Tigers wore pink uniforms for breast cancer awareness...

The 59th annual Pioneer Harvest Fiesta is in full swing from now until Sunday at the Bourbon County Fairgrounds in Fort Scott. Featured each year are two machines, a tractor and an engine, which is usually a stationary engine. "Our featured tractor is the steam engine" said David McCord, Pioneer Harvest Fiesta Club's President...