Stories from Monday, November 10, 2025

Jane Ray Clements, a cherished wife, mother, grandmother, and friend, passed away on Nov. 6, 2025, at the age of 78 in Joplin, Mo., due to complications from dementia. There will be a memorial visitation from 5 until 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, at the Cheney Witt Chapel. Memorials are suggested to the S.E.K. Humane Society and may be left in care of the Cheney Witt Chapel, P.O. Box 347, 201 S. Main St., Fort Scott, KS 66701. Words of remembrance may be submitted online at cheneywitt.com...

Glenn Thomas Darlington, 97, passed away on Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, at Silver Creek Senior Living in Joplin, Mo. Glenn was born on Dec. 18, 1927, to Thomas Eugene (Gene) Darlington and Pearl Rose Harrison Darlington in Rural Barton County Mo., near Oskaloosa. ...

Jason Perryman, age 58, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025, at his home. Arraignments are under the direction of the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main St.

Billy Joe Cowan, 95 formerly of the Fort Scott, Kan., and Nevada, Mo., areas, passed away on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, at the Crystal Coast Hospice House in Newport, N.C. Funeral arrangements for Bill Cowan are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home...

Janet Irby Braun, 84 of Fort Scott, passed away Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, at the Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. Funeral services are set for Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025. The full obituary will be available later.

A canvassing board met Monday morning at the Bourbon County Courthouse to review provisional ballots as the county clerk’s office works to finalize results from the Nov. 4 general election. During the canvassing, the board verifies provisional ballots and reviews reasons why ballots are challenged or provisional and decide whether to count them. The board consisted of Bourbon County Commissioners David Beerbower and Samuel Tran, and Bourbon County Sheriff Bill Martin...

Bourbon County Commissioners on Monday were able to hear more information on bitcoin mining and the operation of a company currently underway in the northwest portion of the county near Xenia. In recent weeks, citizens have raised concerns about constant noise and the use of gas wells for an operation run by Evolution Technology LLC, or Evotech, to run computers that mine for bitcoin in the county. ...