Stories from Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Fort Scott’s 10-year-old team made it to the final four before falling to Parsons 7-1 Sunday during the 2019 Kansas Cal Ripken Baseball 10-and-under State Tournament at Don Hewett Field last weekend. Of the eight teams that qualified for the tournament, four teams made it to bracket play on Sunday; Girard bested Cottonwood Valley 15-9 and then edged Parsons 4-3 to win the state championship...

Public Works Director Jim Harris asked commissioners to consider renting a bulldozer to help with preparing quarries for future blasts. He said dozer work is needed at the Shephard Quarry. The contractor who typically does bulldozing work for the county is unable to do the work this year, Harris said, adding that a couple of his employees are qualified to operate the machine...

The Bourbon County Fair began Friday night with the ACR/IPRA rodeo. Saturday’s events were the 4-H and Open Dog Show and the conclusion of the rodeo in the evening. On Sunday, 4-H’ers took to the arena for the annual 4-H Horse Show. Monday was the day for checking entries into the fair, including judging of exhibits in the 4-H Building. Open class entries, rabbits, poultry, sheep and meat goats were judged Tuesday and the day capped off with the Draft Horse Pull...

Beatrice C. Palet, 73, of Fort Scott, passed away early Tuesday morning at the Medicalodges of Fort Scott. She was born Dec. 25, 1945, in Kansas City, Mo., the daughter of William V. and Laura Amanda Beatrice (Rountree) Dunnam. She married Larry E. Palet and he survives of the home...