Stories from Friday, July 29, 2022

Janet L. Toms, age 69, Pleasanton, Kan., passed away Wednesday, July 27, 2022.   Funeral service will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022 at the Mound City First Baptist Church. Burial will be in the Oak Lawn Cemetery, La Cygne, Kan. Visitation will be held 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 1, 2022 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Pleasanton Chapel. Memorial contributions are suggested to the Pleasanton Elementary Library. Online condolences can be left at www.schneiderfunerals.com.  ...

Edith Louise (Main) LaFarge, age 99 of Fort Scott, Kan., passed peaceful Wednesday, July 27, 2022 at home with her daughter, Arita by her side. She was born Aug. 26, 1922, youngest of 10 children to Felix Brewster and Fannie Mabell Wilson Main near Sprague in Bates County, Mo...

Ronald Love, age 53, a resident of Deerfield, Mo., died Thursday, July 28, 2022, at Freeman Hospital in Joplin. Funeral arrangement’s for Ronald Love will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main St.

Pauline “Polly” Louise (Gordon) Alsop, 99, formerly of Fort Scott, passed away Friday morning, July 29, 2022, at Infinity Park Nursing Home in Overland Park, Kansas. Arrangements will be announced by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Candidates for national offices representing Kansas discussed issues and solutions during an election candidate forum Monday evening at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center. The Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce hosted the forum, which gave voters a chance to hear from candidates for several local, state and federal offices. ...

Bourbon County officials have approved moving forward with a forensic audit of county funds, but have not released any specifics on the matter. On Friday, Bourbon County Commissioners conducted a special meeting for the purpose of a 20-minute executive session under the justification for attorney-client privilege. ...