Stories from Friday, March 25, 2016

The Bourbon County Commissioners on Tuesday approved the final list of hard-surface roads projects for 2016. Commissioners and Public Works Director Jim Harris held a work session on March 17 to review the list of roads and set their priorities. Considerations were traffic count and road conditions. Harris provided commissioners with a prioritized list Tuesday...

City officials are beginning a process to discuss the future of a city-owned park. During the Fort Scott City Commission meeting Tuesday, City Manager Dave Martin said a commissioner had previously approached him about possibly selling Second Street Park, also known as Bridal Veil Park, located in the northwest part of the city. Martin said there is much history behind the park and there are "a lot of emotions tied to it."...

ARMA -- Uniontown baseball opened its season here Wednesday witha fourth-place finish in the Northeast Tournament after going 0-2. The Eagles fell in the semifinal to Liberal, Mo., 9-8. The Bulldogs scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh...

INDEPENDENCE -- Tennis season for Fort Scott High School began here Tuesday with a tough first tournament. The Tigers finished fifth out of the five teams here although the No. 2 doubles team of Elijah Wright and Joe Adams recorded a second-place finish...

Fort Scott Community College split a home Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader with Labette at Lions Field Thursday. The visiting Cardinals took game one, 8-5. The Greyhounds belted four homers in game two to win 13-3. Game one was tied 4-4 after five innings. Labette (6-8 East, 13-11 overall) scored 3 runs in the seventh before the 'Hounds recorded an out...

Fort Scott is favored to win its fourth consecutive Southeast Kansas League softball championship according to a pre-season vote tabulated by the Fort Scott Tribune and prepared Wednesday afternoon. Coaches were not allowed to vote for their own teams. Parsons did not return a ballot despite repeated attempts to get one from there...

Nelda Williams, age 89, a longtime resident of Redfield, Kan., and more recently of Guest Home Estates in Fort Scott, Kan., died Thursday, March 24, 2106, at Guest Home Estates. She was born Feb. 17, 1927, in Sheridan County, Kan., the daughter of Claude Shipley and Maudie Walden Shipley. ...

A large set of reprinted photographs have arrived at the Gordon Parks Museum on the Fort Scott Community College campus. The Gordon Parks Foundation Archive Manager, James Jordan, traveled from New York with 30 prints to replace the original photographs Gordon Parks gave to the museum...

Work to make upgrades and improvements along a portion of National Avenue is rolling along on schedule, officials said. Fort Scott Streets Supervisor Chad Brown said Friday a large portion of work in the approximately $3.8 million project to make improvements along National from Sixth to 13th streets has been completed and only a few side streets in the work area remain closed to traffic. Some areas along National have been opened to residential traffic...

Fort Scott Community College softball moved over the .500 marke for the season with a 3-1, 7-1 sweep of East Central (Mo.) at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex. The Greyhounds now stand at 15-14 on the season, winning their last four games. Aubrey Smith (7-6) was the winning pitcher in game one, allowing 6 hits without a walk. She struck out 6...