Stories from Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Conner William Hawes, age 22 months, died Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 25 at the Cheney Witt Chapel. Burial will follow in the Mt. Olive Cemetery, Pittsburg, Kan. Memorials are suggested to Kansas Care Portal and may be left in care of the Cheney Witt Chapel, P.O. Box 347, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott, KS 66701. Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook at cheneywitt.com...

Joan Savage, age 78, former resident of Fulton, died Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017 at the Baldwin Health and Rehab, Baldwin, Kan. Funeral arrangements for Joan Savage will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main.

The Fort Scott City Golf Championship was held last weekend at Woodland Hills Golf Course. There were three flights of competition and several contests. Bill Thompson was the winner of the championship flight, winning $150. He shot 76 in his first round of play and 77 in the second round for a total of 153. ...

Fort Scott High School’s junior varsity tennis team opened its season at home Monday as host of a four-team junior varsity tournament. Fort Scott had only three players. Shaylee Terry played No. 1 singles and lost to Amanda Trout of Independence, 6-0, Allie Utley of Iola, 6-0, and Rylee Johnson of Pittsburg, 6-4...

Fort Scott High School’s girls’ tennis team will be short on experience this season. Only three players with varsity experience return and there are only nine players overall. “We graduated five of our top eight players,” Fort Scott head coach Lynn Barr said. “The three returning players all saw some varsity action last season.”...

Fort Scott High’s football team held its lawnchair scrimmage at Frary Field Saturday, which turned out to be a warm, humid morning that felt quite a bit warmer than the 77 degrees it allegedly was when the Tigers began working out. The freshmen went first before the varsity/junior varsity began their workout at around 9 a.m. ...

Fort Scott Community College released its football roster Monday morning and new head coach Kale Pick will be working with a roster that has only 12 returning players from last season. With new Jayhawk Conference rules in place that removed the limit on out-of-state players, the Greyhounds (1-6 conference, 4-7 overall last season) have only 10 Kansas high-school graduates — half of whom are sophomores — on their 64-player roster. ...

A local fundraising group for national nonprofit Wreaths Across America will host a motorcycle ride in support of the organization’s mission Saturday. The Fifth Annual Fort Scott Wreath Ride will raise money to sponsor fresh balsam wreaths that will be placed on veterans’ headstones at the Fort Scott National Cemetery in December...

The Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a reported accidental drowning that claimed the life of a young Fort Scott boy. According to a BCSO news release, several local first responders were dispatched just before 6 p.m. Friday to the area of the 2100 block of Jayhawk Road following a report of a missing child...

The Bourbon County Commission on Tuesday signed off a a slightly-revised 2018 county budget. During a public hearing on the budget, local CPA Terry Sercer met with commissioners to present them with the final budget for their consideration of approval. Commissioners have spent several weeks working with Sercer, receiving budget requests from various departments, and discussing issues such as saving money, as well as salaries and wages as they worked on budget drafts...