Stories from Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Robert “Bob” Motti, 87 of Carbondale, passed away Monday, April 30, 2018 in Memorial Hospital of Carbondale. He was born Nov. 20, 1930 to Earl and Merriam (Gardner) Motti in Fort Scott, Kan. On April 29, 1956, Bob married Marilyn Greer. They shared 62 years of marriage...

Marjorie Darlene Hudgen Greenfield, age 95, a former resident of Fort Scott, Kan., and more recently of Denton, Texas, passed away Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Denton, Texas. She was born Feb. 12, 1923, in Altamont, Kan., the daughter of John Wesley Hudgen and Beulah Marjoire Kingsbury Hudgen. ...

Gary R. Richards, Sr., 71, Moundville, Mo., passed away Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018 in the peace and comfort of St. Luke’s Hospice House in Kansas City, Mo., with his family by his side, after enduring a battle with Lymphoma. Gary was a great man in every sense of the word. ...

Mary Louise Hay, 81, of Fort Scott, passed away Monday morning, April 30, 2018, at Fort Scott Manor. She was born Aug. 15, 1936, in Pierce City, Mo., the daughter of Clarence Howard and Tenna Doris (Stewart) Lemons. She married Charley Lee Hay Sept. 28, 1955, in Exeter, Mo., and he preceded her in death Jan. 12, 2009...

Members of the Fort Scott City Commission and Fort Scott Planning Commission delved into the city’s 2018 Comprehensive Plan on Tuesday, electing to move gradually through the process of approving the document. All city commissioners and three planning commissioners met with city staff for a work session prior to the regular city commission meeting. ...

The 2nd Story Festival of Arts and Ideas took place Friday through Sunday at various locations in the downtown area. The event included hands-on workshops, an art sale and social fundraising event, arts tours and other activities. It was sponsored by the Fort Scott Festival of Arts, with grant funding provided by the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation...

CHETOPA — Uniontown and Chetopa split a Three Rivers League make-up softball doubleheader here Friday. Uniontown took game one, 9-7, after holding off a Green Hornet rally. Chetopa took game two, 8-1. Uniontown (10-6, TRL and overall) led 9-0 going into the bottom of the sixth inning. Chetopa (8-10, 8-10) scored all of its runs in that inning...

OSWEGO — Uniontown’s baseball team scored 30 runs here Monday but came away with just a split of a Three Rivers League doubleheader with Oswego here Monday night. Oswego won the first game, 14-13, scoring twice in the bottom of the seventh to win. The Eagles salvaged the split with a 17-1 rout in game two...

GIRARD — Fort Scott High’s girls finished in a tie for second place at the Girard Optimist Club Invitational here Friday while the boys finished ninth. Tiger girls tied with Chanute as both scored 55 points. Pittsburg was the winner with 125 points followed by Carthage, Mo. with 115...

COFFEYVILLE — Fort Scott High baseball rolled by Coffeyville by scores of 11-0 and 15-2 in a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader here Friday. The Tigers remained a game behind Pittsburg in the loss column in the league race. The Purple Dragons lead the league at 7-1 (11-4 overall) with four games to go while Fort Scott is 9-2 (11-6 overall) with one game left, a May 10 home game versus Chanute...

ARMA — Northeast swept Crest in convincing fashion here Tuesday, taking a Three Rivers League doubleheader from the first-year program by scores of 11-1 and 13-1. In game two, pitchers Matt Cashero, Dalton Reeves, and Hunter Jackson combined to pitch a five-inning no-hitter (both games being shortened due to the 10-run rule)...

CONCORDIA — The second-best season (by number of wins) in Fort Scott Community College softball history came to an end here Sunday as host Cloud County took game three of a best-of-three first-round series in the District E Tournament. Fort Scott won the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader, 2-0, on Britney Smith’s 2-run home run in the top of the seventh inning. Cloud County staged a 4-run rally in the bottom of game two to even the series with a 7-6 win...

Fort Scott Community College’s baseball team swept Coffeyville in a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader at Lions Field Saturday. The Greyhounds beat Coffeyville in game one, 12-8, and took game two, 10-8. Though Fort Scott (27-9 division, 41-13 overall) was locked into second place, the Red Ravens were fighting Neosho County and Johnson County for an opportunity to host a first-round tournament series. ...

Wilda I. Insley, age 87, of Fort Scott, Kan., more recently of Olathe, Kan., passed away Sunday afternoon, April 29, 2018, at The University of Kansas Medical Center. She was born Jan. 22, 1931, in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Joseph Richard Crystal and Elva Pauline Beerbower Crystal. ...