Stories from Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Michael Owen True, age 71, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died late Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, following a heart ailment. He was born Dec. 11, 1946, in Kansas City, Kan., the son of Warren D. True and Lucille Leach True. He married Joyce Haller on June 15, 1968, in Shawnee, Kan. ...

Sandra Sue “Sandy” Rylander, 75, of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away unexpectedly of a heart attack Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 14, 2018, at KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. Sandy was born Oct. 16, 1942, in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of the late John C. and Nettie Caroline (Townsend) Stanbro...

Mary Elizabeth Stoughton, age 95, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., formerly of rural Mapleton, Kan., died Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018, at Country Place Living in Fort Scott. She was born Jan. 16, 1923, in rural Bourbon County, the daughter of Nixon and Eula Hutcherson Blair. ...

EUREKA — Uniontown’s wrestling program, now in its fourth season, reached another milestone when sophomore Colt Eck became the program’s first Regional champion at the Eureka Class 3-2-1A Regional here Saturday. Eck (33-6), who went 0-2 at State last season at 145 pounds after qualifying in third place at Regionals, won all four of his matches at 152 by pin. ...

BURLINGTON — Fort Scott High School senior Kyle Montojo advanced to State for the second time as a result of his fourth-place finish at 126 pounds at the Burlington Class 4A Regional here Saturday. Montojo (23-16), who also qualified as a sophomore, will be the only Tiger at State this season as Fort Scott was relatively inexpereinced as a team this season...

The second weekend of Fort Scott Community College baseball went even better than the first as the Greyhounds outscored North Central Missouri 40-6 in taking a four-game sweep at Dave Regan Stadium. Fort Scott (6-2) won 15-5 and 11-1 on Saturday and 4-0 and 10-0 on Sunday...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Kansas City Kansas’ women rolled by the Greyhounds here Saturday by a score of 75-59 in Jayhawk Conference-Division II play, handing Fort Scott its 19th loss in its last 22 conference games In this game, the Greyhounds (0-6 conference, 2-6 Region VI, 12-13 overall) trailed just 12-10 after one period. But the Blue Devils (2-4 conference, 4-4 Region VI) outscored Fort Scott 24-8 in the second quarter. The Greyhounds won the second half, 41-39...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Fort Scott Community College’s men completed a season sweep of Kansas City Kansas here Saturday afternoon by beating the Blue Devils, 58-41, in Jayhawk Conference-Division II play. The sweep of KCK and a sweep of Hesston are currently the only tie-breakers the Greyhounds (3-3 conference, 5-3 Region VI, 19-9 overall) hold in the region. Fort Scott is third in the region but hosts Johnson County tonight and second-place Highland Saturday afternoon in key games...

Uniontown and Northeast each postponed home games Tuesday night and each have rescheduled those games for Thursday night. With Sub-States in classes 3A and 2A to be seeded today, both school’s girls’ and boys’ records as of Tuesday morning will be what they are seeded by...

Due to the freezing rain and the accumulation of ice on the roads, Fort Scott and Independence high schools agreed to postpone Tuesday’s scheduled Southeast Kansas League games to tonight. Game times will be the same with the main gymnasium hosting junior varsity girls at 4:30, varsity girls at 6 p.m. and varsity boys at 7:30. Boys JV will be held in the new gym at 4:30 followed by freshmen boys at 6 and freshmen girls at 7:30...

Bourbon County Commissioners and other county officials plan to take further steps toward creation of a tax rebate program in the county. County Counselor Justin Meeks met with commissioners Tuesday morning for discussion on economic development, and the possible creation of a tax rebate program in the county similar to one currently offered in the city of Fort Scott. Meeks and commissioners discussed a tax rebate program for the county earlier this month...

Rain that fell all day Tuesday began freezing on plants like these in a Main Street planter as the temperature dipped to the lower 30s. Freezing rain was expected to continue into the evening. The Fort Scott High School basketball games were postponed until tonight, but another chance of freezing rain is expected between 8 and 10 p.m., according to Tuesday’s National Weather Service forecast...