Stories from Friday, May 11, 2018

Shirley Mae Wescoat, 85, of Fort Scott passed away Friday morning, May 11, 2018 at Cavalry Crossing in Fort Scott, Kan. Funeral arrangements for Shirley Mae Wescoat are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Pansy May Staton, age 84, Pleasanton, Kan., passed away on Thursday, May 10, 2018. Funeral service will be 11 a.m. Monday, May 14, at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Pleasanton Chapel. Burial in the Pleasanton Cemetery. Visitation 3 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Schneider Pleasanton Chapel. Contributions are suggested to Care to Share...

Several residents from the Garland area were unable to persuade all the county commissioners to move Garland Road up to the top of the county’s asphalt project list Tuesday. Those who spoke for the residents – about 10 – told commissioners conditions on a portion of the road the county milled in preparation for an asphalt overlay has deteriorated to the point of becoming dangerous...

The grand opening of the Belltown Pavilion at the Riverfront Park on North National Avenue will be celebrated with a ribbon cutting and other events Thursday. The newly-completed pavilion will host the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce Coffee at 8 a.m., followed by a ribbon cutting at 8:45 a.m. ...

Regional baseball and softball brackets were released by the Kansas State High School Activities Association Wednesday morning. Fort Scott High School’s baseball team is the No. 2 seed in the Class 4A-Division I Regional it will host at Dave Regan Stadium Tuesday. ...

PLEASANTON —Five area athletes won events at the Three Rivers League Relays held here Thursday. Northeast sophomore Daniel Balk successfully defended his title in pole vault as he cleared 10 feet, 6 inches, winning by a foot. Sophomore Carlee Beard of Northeast won two events. She had a throw of 97 feet even in discus to win by two inches and a mark of 32’ 1” in shot put to win by almost a foot and a half...

CHANUTE — Fort Scott’s Paxsten Eads turned in a time of 11;46.85 as she won the girls’ 3,200-meter run at the Southeast Kansas League Relays here Thursday. Eads beat out Independence’s Renee Trout, the SEK girls’ cross-country champion last fall, by nearly three seconds as she claimed her first league title...

An 11-run first inning allowed Fort Scott High’s softball team to wrap up regular-season play with a 14-4 rout of Chanute in a Southeast Kansas League game at Don Hewett Field Thursday. Fort Scott (10-2 SEK, 15-5 overall) used 9 hits and took advantage of three Blue Comet errors in their big first inning...

Fort Scott High School’s baseball team will go into its own Regional Tournament on a five-game winning streak following am 8-5 win over Chanute in a Southeast Kansas League game at Dave Regan Stadium. The last losses for the Tigers (10-2 SEK, 14-6 overall) were to Paola in both games of a road doubleheader on April 23. Both losses were by one run to the Panthers (16-4), who will be the No. 1 seed in the Fort Scott Class 4A-Division I Regional Tournament, which will be played on Tuesday...