Stories from Friday, August 24, 2018

Bobbie Gene Combs, age 79, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, at the Franklin House assisted living facility in Fort Scott. He was born Aug. 12, 1938, in Fort Scott, the son of Ralph Francis Combs and Georgia Haynes Combs. ...

Vera Jane Wiggans Hays, age 80, formerly of Fort Scott, died Wednesday evening, Aug. 22, 2018, at Greystone Assisted Living in Iola, Kan. Vera was born Aug. 9, 1938, to Marjorie and Pascal Wiggans in rural Bronson. She attended Bronson schools, played basketball and was drum majorette. ...

Arlene Allen, age 89, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018, at the Guest Home Estates in Fort Scott. She was born Dec. 15, 1928, in Fort Scott, the daughter of Terry Misener and Winifred Allison Misener. Arlene graduated from the Fort Scott High School with the Class of 1946 and the Fort Scott Junior College with the Class of 1948. ...

Leland Duane Wood, 70, of Fort Scott, was welcomed into Heaven’s open arms on Aug. 23, 2018. Bless his tired heart, he is now shooting baskets with the best cheering section you could find in Heaven. Leland was born Oct. 14, 1947, in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Vergil Leon and Delma Dorene (Brown) Wood. He married Mary Underwood Sept. 28, 1968, in Mapleton, Kan., and she survives of the home...

The Fort Scott Fire Department came out on top in a friendly blood drive competition Thursday and Friday, according to organizers. In the eighth annual Battle of the Badges blood drive, local law enforcement and fire personnel teamed up with the American Red Cross to see who can recruit the most eligible donors in their community to donate blood. The drive took place at Community Christian Church...

Specifics of a conditional use permit to allow residential living on the first floor of a commercial building in the downtown historic district were debated at the Tuesday meeting of the Fort Scott City Commission. Commissioners and other city officials discussed a draft of a permit commissioners approved at their Aug. 7 meeting that will allow local residents Jerry and Judy Witt to live on the first floor of a commercial building at 9 N. Main St...

Students, teachers and staff headed back to classrooms Thursday for the start of a new school year. Members of various athletic teams at FSCC greeted students at

Fort Scott High School’s first competitive event of the new school year was a junior varsity tennis tournament on Tuesday. The tournament was originally scheduled for Monday but wet courts forced a postponement. Independence, dominant in tennis in southeast Kansas at any level, swept the four divisions of the round-robin affair. Pittsburg was second in each division and Iola was third...

Thursday’s rain forced the cancellation of the Red & White Soccer Scrimmage, so Fort Scott High’s first action of the season will be at home on Tuesday against Louisburg. The varsity game will be played first at 4:30 p.m. at Ellis Park with the junior varsity to follow...

PARSONS — Fort Scott High’s varsity tennis schedule opened here Thursday with a round-robin tournament that featured teams which are usually the toughest in the Southeast Kansas League. With that known, the Tigers, a relatively youthful group, were not able to win a match against Independence, Parsons or Pittsburg...

New Fort Scott High School head coach Jenna Campbell took her team out on the court of the FSHS gymnasium for the Red & White Scrimmage Friday afternoon. After a workout that took about an hour, Campbell, a 2011 graduate of FSHS, said she was happy with what she saw but also knows there’s still work to be done. ...

Fort Scott Community College’s football team has all new assistant coaches and nearly an all-new roster going into today’s season opener at Highland. Head coach Kale Pick, still the youngest head coach in all of college football, begins his second season at the helm, going 4-6 overall and 2-5 in the Jayhawk Conference in his inaugural campaign...

Fort Scott High head coach Bob Campbell wanted to have his varsity work on things without showing off too much at the annual Red & White Football Scrimmage at Frary Field Friday night. Coffeyville — the Tigers’ season-opening opponent Aug. 31 —was scouting the scrimmage since the Golden Tornado held their scrimmage on Thursday. Likewise, Fort Scott scouted Coffeyville’s scrimmage...