Stories from Friday, March 18, 2022

During a work session on Tuesday, Bourbon County officials discussed costs and other factors for recommendations in the county’s 2022 asphalt and chip-and-seal program. See the print or online edition of the Tribune for complete story.

Fort Scott City Commissioners on Wednesday accepted the resignation of Pete Allen as city commissioner. “Three years ago I signed up to run for city commissioner thinking that I could make a difference,” Pete Allen said during the commission’s regular meeting Tuesday. “It was proven to me tonight that’s a false idea, a false thought.”...

In his last year of eligibility, Fort Scott Middle School eighth grader Dierks Kegler will once again take his shooting skills to a nationwide free-throw shooting competition. Kegler and his family were scheduled to leave today for Colorado Springs, Colo., where Dierks will compete in a regional contest as part of the Elks National Hoop Shoot, a free-throw program that has been offered to youth 8-13 years of age for nearly 50 years...