Stories from Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Edna Mae Tourtillott, age 78, resident of Fort Scott, died Monday, April 17, 2017, at her home. She was born Oct. 19, 1938 in Linn County, Kan., the daughter of Jacob Barrett and Cleta Paddock Barrett. Edna Mae was a graduate of Prescott High School. ...

Mary Lee (Endicott) Heathman, 86, passed from this life on Monday, April 17, 2017 at her home in Nevada, Mo. She was born on Dec. 12, 1930 in Arcadia, Kan., to James and Iris (Wilson) Endicott. She married William (Bill) Heathman in 2006. Mary worked as a housekeeper at the State Hospital in Nevada and volunteered at second hand stores. ...

Gov. Sam Brownback on Tuesday announced the appointment of Sen. Jake LaTurner as the state’s new treasurer. LaTurner will replace current treasurer Ron Estes, who was recently elected to represent the Fourth Congressional District in the House of Representatives. LaTurner will assume his new position once Estes vacates the office later this month, according to an Associated Press report...

The Friends of the Fort Scott National Historic Site hosted the annual Friends Fest in honor of the 175th anniversary of the establishment of Fort Scott.

The annual Eggstravaganza was held Saturday at Buck Run Community Center. About 27 children had preregistered and more were expected to attend.

Several months into the process, Fort Scott Community College is getting closer to moving its John Deere Technician Training program to Bourbon County. On Monday, the FSCC Board of Trustees unanimously approved a resolution “authorizing the offering for sale of lease purchase agreement certificates of participation.” College officials seek to sell the certificates to help finance acquisition of the former National Guard armory, now the college’s east campus, construct a metal building on the east campus and make other improvements for housing the John Deere program and the college’s welding program.. ...

PITTSBURG — Fort Scott High School track and field athletes participated in the Jock’s Nitch Relays hosted at Pittsburg State University here Friday. Although no one from Fort Scott earned any medals, the number and quality of competitors here still make a top-10 finish outstanding and a top-20 finish quite respectable...

The No. 1 doubles team of Drew Rhoades and Nick Patton won their division in the Fort Scott Junior Varsity Tournament Monday. Rhoades and Patton went 4-0 defeating Trevor Strathe/Pierce Thomas of Parsons, 6-4, Brock O’Malley/Sean Nyland of Independence, 6-1, A.J. Bolig/Kolby Ussery of Chanute, 6-3, and Jake Russian/Noah Kangas of Pittsburg, 6-3...

BURLINGTON — Uniontown’s Jon Harp was the winner of the boys’ 1,600-meter run at the Waverly Invitational here Monday. Harp turned in a time of 5:36 in winning the Eagles’ only gold of the day. Ben George was fourth in high jump for the boys. Shalina Harper was the girls’ only medalist, finishing third in the 800 meters, fourth in the 1,600 and sixth in javelin...

Fort Scott Community College’s baseball team slipped a little further back in the division standings as part of their recent stretch of play, which began Saturday in Kansas City, Kan., and continued Monday in Baldwin City and Tuesday at home. Saturday: Fort Scott 5-8, Kansas City 4-10...

Fort Scott High won the team title at its home invitational at Woodland Hills Golf Course Monday and had three individuals finish in the top 10. Early on, head coach Ken Klassen indicated that his team wasn’t doing well. That could be seen in that five of the six Tigers had higher scores on the front nine than on the back. But each of them eventually recovered...