Stories from Saturday, April 2, 2016

Lorie Harter has been named the new publisher of the Fort Scott Tribune, Fort Scott Countryside and the operation's print shop and digital platforms. She succeeds Floyd Jernigan, who is leaving to take a position as director of parks and recreation with the City of Rolla, Mo...

The Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce celebrated the contributions, services and accomplishments of several local people and businesses during the chamber's 2016 Annual Dinner and Awards Celebration Thursday night at the Liberty Theatre. Recipients of this year's Keystone Award, which honors a person or couple who has continually been a source of support to their community, were Jim and Martha Scott. ...

Chapman High School junior Kati Fellman studies an egg Friday during the Exterior Egg Quality contest in the Fort Scott Community College east campus building. Feldman and other students judged eggs based upon looks, cracks, veins, and general defects. The contest, along with many others, were part of Fort Scott Community College's 40th Annual Agriculture Interscholastic Contests, or "Aggie Day," for area 4-H and FFA chapter students...

Willie Worthy Wurtz, age 89, Pleasanton, Kan., passed away on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, Kan. Willie was born April 9, 1926 in Beagle, Kan., to Benjamin F. and Viola M. Brant Wurtz. He had 27 brothers and sisters. Willie lived in Pleasanton most of his life...

INDEPENDENCE -- After getting off to a slow start this season, Fort Scott High's No. 1 doubles team of Alex Gorman and Micah Self have been able to bounce back. They took second place here Thursday in an always-tough tournament, going 3-1 on the day...

GALENA -- Uniontown athletes medaled in four events here Thursday as track and field season got underway with the running of the Galena Bulldog Relays. "Our athletes competed well and we now know where were are at and where we need to progress to," Uniontown head coach Jackie Hall said. "We are very proud of the way our athletes competed in some very tough competition."...

Uniontown High's softball team opened the season Tuesday with a split against Yates Center, then dropped both games of a high-scoring Three Rivers League doubleheader at St. Paul on Thursday. In Tuesday's opener at Uniontown, the Eagles defeated Yates Center, 9-8, in game one before dropping game two, 14-13...

Uniontown's baseball team has won three straight games after salvaging a split with Yates Center Tuesday and sweeping St. Paul on the road Thursday. The Eagles lost game one on Tuesday, 7-6, after a seventh-inning rally came up short. Uniontown won game two 20-10, powered by a 13-run second inning...

Emily Hale became just the second Fort Scott High School player to hit a home run over the fence at Don Hewett Field Thursday night, belting a solo shot over the 14-feet tall fence in right field during the Tigers' 8-3 victory in the second game of a non-league doubleheader versus Girard. The visiting Trojans won the opener, 13-8...

Independence swept Fort Scott Community College in a Jayhawk Conference-Division II doubleheader at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex Thursday afternoon. The Pirates won game one 9-1 and game two 8-7. Fort Scott's only run in the opener came in the fourth inning. Kylie Wilson led off with a bunt single, stole second and later scored on a groundout...

Fort Scott Community College baseball took two games from Highland in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play at Lions Field Friday, taking game one 5-3 and dominating the nightcap 11-1. Fort Scott (11-7 East, 24-8 overall) scored four of its 5 runs in the first inning of the opener and needed just 2 hits to do so. Highland's Jose Acosta (2-5) walked three batters and hit two others in the inning...