Stories from Friday, September 2, 2016

Uniontown High School football kicks off its season tonight when Southeast comes to town for a 7 p.m. kickoff. This will be Uniontown's first season of 11-man football since 2011 and the first year of the coaching tenure of former Eagle quarterback Chad Hays. Meanwhile, Southeast comes in looking for its first victory since Oct. 10, 2014, when the Lancers defeated Northeast. Since then, Southeast has lost 12 consecutive games...

Fort Scott Community College will play its first road game of the young season Saturday night when the Greyhounds travel to Independence for a 7 p.m. Jayhawk Conference game at Sulthis Stadium. Fort Scott (1-0 Jayhawk, 1-0 overall) played its season opener last week, giving No. 5 Butler all it could handle before falling 35-41 at Frary Field. The Greyhounds led 21-7 after one quarter...

Travis Hurley has taken over at Parsons this season following the two-year tenure of Marc Svaty, who went to Fredonia to take over the head coaching job there and be closer to family. Hurley is the latest in a line of Viking head coaches looking to bring winning ways back to Parsons. Since the 2005 season, Tony Canacari's last in a six-year tenure, the Vikings have had four head coaches and compiled a record of 18-74. That includes five winless seasons (2008-09, 2012-14)...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High's junior varsity team played a pair of best-of-nine duals here Tuesday, with six singles matches and three doubles matches in each one. Pittsburg was the host and has a co-op with St. Mary's-Colgan, so it split its JV players into teams based on which school they attend. PHS won the first dual 7-2 while Fort Scott defeated Colgan 9-0 in the other...

Fort Scott Middle School volleyball opened its season at home Tuesday and picked up wins from all four of its teams against Prairie View. The seventh-grade "A" team won in three sets, 26-24, 17-25, 25-10. Abby Altic was the top server for the Tigers, according to the report sent to the Tribune, but no total was listed...

GIRARD -- A pair of bigger schools defeated Uniontown here Tuesday night in non-league volleyball action. Class 4A-Division II Girard downed the Class 2A Eagles (6-2) in three sets, 25-15, 16-25, 25-21. Holly Shinn had 10 kills for the Eagles. Jimme Keller had 9 assists while Kate Coll had 8...

Margaret Humphrey and Rita Emmerson, like many people, put flowers on the graves of lost loved ones in a show of respect and remembrance. And they're typically used to the flowers remaining on the graves unless they're replaced at some point. The two local women are starting to become concerned as the artificial flower arrangements they have placed on gravestones at two local cemeteries have been coming up missing. ...

Thursday was the first day of classes for all USD 234 students.

Lessie J. Davis, age 73, Blue Mound, Kan., passed away on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016 at the Olathe Hospice House. Graveside funeral service will be held 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016 at the Sunny Slope Cemetery, Blue Mound, Kan. Visitation will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. ...

Fort Scott National Historic Site (FSNHS) will present Symbols of Sacrifice from Sept. 9-15, honoring the sacrifice of Americans throughout our nation's history. The main focus of the event will be a Field of Honor on the historic FSNHS Parade Ground, where a U.S. flag will fly for each service member who has died while serving in theater supporting U.S. military operations during the Global War on Terrorism...

A local man convicted of felony murder and child abuse in May was sentenced Friday morning in Bourbon County District Court. Bourbon County District Judge Mark Ward handed down a life sentence with no possibility of parole for at least 25 years on one count of first degree felony murder, and a sentence of 34 months in the Kansas Department of Corrections for one count of abuse of a child, to Anthony M. Anderson during a sentencing hearing...

Jason E. Silvers/Tribune photo Bob Campbell, head coach of the Fort Scott High School Tiger football team, gets the crowd on their feet and making noise during the first FSHS pep assembly of the season Friday afternoon at Frary Field. The Tiger football team played the Parsons Vikings Friday night...