Stories from Saturday, November 7, 2015

This is the second in a series. A small group of friends gathered recently at the home of Bill and Sue Fischer of Fort Scott to learn about the work their former pastor, Rev. Mansour Khajehpour, is now doing with SAT-7, which provides Christian television programs to thousands of Arab, Turkish and Persians in the Middle East...

The staff at Fort Scott National Historic Site have been working on a new exhibit for many years. The exhibit is finally up and running and open to the public. "It's been a long time coming," FSNHS Historian Bill Fischer said. "It's been in the works since August of 2011. When it actually started, it had been in the works for a long time before. Three or four years before."...

Fort Scott Middle School's eighth-grade basketball teams opened the season Thursday with losses to Iola at the FSMS gymnasium. The eighth-grade "A" team fell to the Ponies, 25-20. Iola led 15-6 at the half but the Tigers won the third period to get within 21-16...

Four members of Fort Scott High School's volleyball team earned All-Southeast Kansas League honors in voting released earlier this week. Ashley Cook was named to the First Team for the Tigers, who tied for third place in the SEK with Independence. Katie Gorman was named to the Second Team and Jenna Kakas and Karlee Stanley earned Honorable Mention status...

EUDORA -- Fort Scott High scored first in this Class 4A-Division I Regional Playoff Game here Friday night. But Eudora struck back quickly and took control the rest of the way to bring an end to the Tigers' season, 33-7. Fort Scott (7-3) went into the final game of the regular season last week with the second-best scoring offense in the Southeast Kansas League, averaging 34 points per game. But the Tigers managed only a touchdown in each of their final two outings...