Stories from Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Lawrence E. “Shorty” Brown, 90, of Rural Fort Scott, passed away Sunday, July 15, 2018 at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott. Funeral services are at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 24, 2018, at the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home with burial following at Memory Gardens Cemetery. ...

A project to build a monument to honor United States Navy veterans, which is several years in the making, is moving along to the next phase. The idea for a project to design and build a monument honoring Southeast Kansas Navy veterans, which would eventually be placed at the Fort Scott National Cemetery, came about in 2008 with members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1165 honor guard, according to Daryl Roller, a U.S. Navy veteran formerly of Fort Scott...

With the free landfill dump days approaching, Bourbon County Commissioners on Tuesday discussed other options that they hope will prevent individuals from dumping unwanted furniture and trash in county ditches. The county is sponsoring free landfill dump days from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday...

The Bourbon County Fair opened Saturday with the dog show and concludes Saturday, July 21, with the Missouri State Tractor Pullers Association contest, beginning at 7 p.m.

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. — Coy Pollmeier of Fort Scott, coming off a sixth-place finish at the International Youth Finals Rodeo last week (see story above), stands in sixth place as the First Long Go in bull riding progresses at the National High School Finals Rodeo here...

Results of the Two-Person Scramble held at Woodland Hills Golf Course Saturday: • First Flight: 1. L. Simons and J. Leek, 64, $140; 2. J. Allen and S. Schroer, 65, $100; 3. M. Quick and J. Regan, 65, $60. Skins to J. Allen team on No. 3 (3) and No. 18 (3) and to Simons team on No. 6 (2)...

SHAWNEE, Okla. — Fort Scott’s Coy Pollmeier finished sixth in bull riding at the International Youth Finals Rodeo here even though he did not score on Friday’s Long Go. Pollmeier’s average was 112.0 points. He had scores of 75.0 points and 37.0 points in his two Short Gos and was the only rider who scored in both...