Stories from Saturday, September 26, 2015

Charles Edmond "Ed" Murray, 60, Nevada, Mo., departed this life on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015 in St. Louis, Mo. Ed was born Oct. 12, 1954 in Fort Scott, Kan., to Charles Leroy and Shirley Gene (Barbour) Murray. On Nov. 21, 1978 he was united in marriage to Rebecca Casselman in Manti, Utah, and she survives of the home...

For over half a century, intermingled with the chaos of raising families and living life, a small group of women have continually met like clockwork to get together to talk and drink coffee. "We originally probably started close to 1960, 61 or 62," Shirley Culbertson, one of the two original members, said Wednesday as the group gathered in her apartment...

Arthur Closs, 51, has a passion. He collects Case tractors. He has approximately 100 tractors that run, about 300 tractors altogether. It is a passion his dad, Frederick Closs Jr., had and one Arthur Closs is passing on to his 20-year-old daughter, Caitlin...

On Friday, 91 people began their new lives as U.S. citizens. The new citizens, representing about 40 different countries and a variety of careers, took the Oath of Citizenship pledge during U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas naturalization proceedings Friday morning at the Fort Scott National Historic Site. The applicants for citizenship also learned of their rights and responsibilities as new U.S. citizens...

FREDONIA -- With conflicting school activities and some illness affecting Uniontown's girls' golf team, head coach Jason Tourtillott decided to bring some of his junior varsity golfers to the Fredonia Tournament here Thursday. The Eagles finished seventh out of eight schools with a team score of 262. Caney Valley was the winner with a 169...

Fort Scott Community College Head Volleyball Coach Lindsay Hill and Neosho County Head Coach Asya Herron will coach in their bare feet during Monday night's Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division match between their schools. The coaches are participating in Samaritan's Feet Barefoot Coaching Movement to provide shoes and awareness for worldwide outreach...

Uniontown will be back in the ranks of 11-man football the next two seasons following the Kansas State High School Activities Association's release of enrollment figures Friday morning. There were two sets of numbers released. The first set determines the classifications for this school year in every sport except football and uses enrollments in grades 9-12. The other is for football for the 2016 and 2017 seasons and does not use the 12th grade in its figures...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team took second place behind host Pittsburg in the final tournament of the regular season here Thursday. The Tigers had one division champion, two seconds and a third in finishing with 12 points. "We played pretty well today in our final regular-season match," Fort Scott head coach Lynn Barr said. ...

IOLA -- Fort Scott High School's varsity girls won the team title at the Doc Stiles Invitation here Tuesday, beating out Anderson County by one team point. Fort Scott's girls also placed third in the girls' junior varsity race. And Gavin Smith was the winner of the boys' JV race for the Tigers...

COFFEYVILLE -- Fort Scott High scored on each of its six first-half possessions and also had a defensive touchdown here Friday night as the Tigers got back on track with a 49-0 Southeast Kansas League rout of winless Coffeyville at Veterans Memorial Stadium...