Stories from Tuesday, June 16, 2020

A Bourbon County positive COVID-19 test was confirmed Tuesday afternoon, according to a release from the SEK Multi-County Health Departments. The testing was confirmed through an out-of-state reference laboratory that was used on the symptomatic individual. ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) announces that its Vital Statistics Office lobby, which has been closed due to COVID-19, is open for will call pick-ups only beginning. The lobby continues to remain closed for walk-in services...

Kevin Earl Stancer, age 71, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Monday, June 15, 2020, at his home. He was born Jan. 2, 1949, in Centralia, Wash., the son of Earl E. Stancer and Lorest P. LaBrue Stancer. Kevin graduated from the Fort Scott High School. ...

Fort Scott Community College officials are moving forward with planning for the fall semester and have put in place changes to help potentially mitigate the spread of COVID-19. During the Monday meeting of the FSCC Board of Trustees, trustees heard administrative reports on plans for the fall semester, and approved a revised calendar for the 2020-21 academic year...

Bourbon County Commissioners on Tuesday adopted a resolution that states the county will go through procedures to close a potion of Indian Road to accommodate a Fort Scott Municipal Airport runway extension project. Fort Scott Financial Director Susan Bancroft, who presented the resolution to the commissioners, said this is a revised resolution as the first presented to the Federal Aviation Administration was rejected due to some wording. ...