Stories from Monday, July 3, 2017

Patricia Susan Wallace, age 57, Mound City, Kan., passed away on Sunday July 2, 2017 at the Residencies of Pleasanton. Funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 6, 2017 at the Mound City Christian Church. Burial will be in the Mapleton Cemetery. ...

Roberta Ilene Cassatt, 74, of Nevada, Mo., passed away on Sunday, July 2, 2017, at Mercy Hospital in Joplin following a lengthy illness. Roberta was born on Feb. 4, 1943, in Sheldon to Frank and Corrine (Ford) Bogart. On Jan. 17, 1965, she married Gary Cassatt in Sheldon, and he preceded her in death on Aug. 29, 1993...

A project to make renovations to the east campus of Fort Scott Community College and move the John Deere Technician Training program to Bourbon County can now enter the construction phase. The FSCC Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved the $561,000 bid from Tri-State Building and Supply Co., Inc., of Pittsburg to construct a metal building on the east campus that will be part of improvements to house the John Deere program and the college’s welding program...

Once a standout young athlete, Sebastien Jacques now has a different goal. Jacques, who is from Quebec, Canada, is walking across the United States to share his story and spread a message of hope and overcoming obstacles people face in life. In 2015, Jacques had surgery to remove a benign tumor from the center of his brain...

A trio of musicians, from left, trumpeters Norm Jones and Steve Harry, and pianist Pat Harry, perform patriotic music as part of Symbols of Sacrifice activities Saturday night at the Fort Scott National Historic Site. The trio performed tunes such as “God Bless the U.S.A.,” “You Raise Me Up,” and “America the Beautiful.”...