Stories from Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Some members of the public voiced their support for a longtime educator and school administrator at Monday night's USD 234 Board of Education meeting. The board heard comments from some citizens regarding the decision of the school board and Superintendent Bob Beckham in February to not renew the contract of Eugene Ware Principal Dave Elliott for the 2017-18 school year...

A storm that roared through Bourbon County Monday evening left broken and uprooted trees, carports in tangles and roofs scattered on the ground. Bourbon County Emergency Manager William Wallis said one family has been displaced from their home along Maple Road in the Redfield area, but no injuries were reported...

Paul O Herrington Sr., age 77, was born on Dec. 31,1939 in Somers Point, N.J. He moved to Fort Scott, Kan., in 2005. He passed away on March 3, 2017 at 1:55 p.m. at Landmark Hospital in Joplin, Mo. Paul was a husband, father, and grandfather. He retired as an HVAC tech. He had many things he liked to do such as play cards, fishing, playing pool, hanging out with the family and much more...

Donald Clayton Endy, age 87, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Monday, March 6, 2017, at the Medicalodge of Fort Scott. He was born March 27, 1929, in Pottstown, Penn., the son of Clayton B. Endy and Mary Schaeffer Endy. Don served with the United States Air Force for 22 years. ...

Harold Jay Holmes, age 77, Prescott, Kan., passed away on Monday, March 6, 2017, at the Prescott Country View. He was born on Dec. 15, 1939 at Prescott, the son of Harold S. and Marguerite Coon Holmes. He graduated from Prescott High School in 1957. ...

Melody Jean Troth, age 56, La Cygne, Kan., passed away on Sunday, March 5, 2017 at her home. She was born on March 2, 1961 at Paola, Kan., the daughter of George and Bernita (McDonald) Ala. She graduated from Prairie View High School in the Class of 1979. ...

Eugene Glen Wolfe, age 90, of Savonburg, Kan., passed away Sunday, March 5, 2017 at his home. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 11, 2017 at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, Moran. Burial with military honors will follow in the Elsmore Cemetery, Elsmore, Kan. The family will greet friends from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday evening at the funeral home...

Michael Eugene Hannigan, age 57, a resident of rural Moran, Kan., passed away Saturday, March 4, 2017. Cremation was handled by Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott, Kan. Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook at cheneywitt.com. A family gathering will take place at a later date...

After dropping both games of a home conference doubleheader last Thursday, Fort Scott Community College's baseball team has swept its last two. Saturday, they paid back Coffeyville for Thursday's sweep by taking two from the Red Ravens in a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division twinbill, 11-2 and 16-5. Tuesday, the Greyhounds used a pair of big innings to post a sweep of the Baker University junior varsity at Lions Field, 9-2 and 15-2...

The Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference released its All-Conference teams Monday afternoon. Four Fort Scott players were named to the men's and women's Division II teams. First-year women's head coach Jeff Tadtman, who came to Fort Scott over the summer after his previous school, Carl Albert State (Okla.) dropped basketball, was named Division II Co-Coach of the Year along with Johnson County's Ben Conrad. ...

FSCC upsets No. 3 seed Kansas City Saturday, falls at Johnson Monday

Although Fort Scott Community College's softball team won just one of four games in a three-day period, that one win was one of the bigger wins in the four-year tenure of head coach Kristin Janes. When the Greyhounds beat Labette, 7-3, in the first game of a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader at Parsons Monday, it was their first win over the Cardinals since 2006. ...

Fort Scott Community College's women had a pretty good fourth quarter as they tried to rally in the first round of the Region VI Division II Tournament at Arnold Arena Saturday. But it wasn't as good as the third quarter visiting Kansas City Kansas had that put the fourth-seeded Greyhounds in the hole in the first place...

SPRING HILL -- Once Louisburg's offense got on track here Saturday night, it became difficult for Fort Scott High's boys to keep up in the Spring Hill Class 4A-Division I Sub-State championship game here Saturday night. The Wildcats (10-12) made 17 of 23 field-goal attempts (74 percent) over the course of the final three quarters, with the offense especially potent during a third quarter in which they outscored the Tigers 19-6. ...