Stories from Sunday, May 13, 2007

By Brett Dalton Herald-Tribune Fort Scott, Kan. -- A nationally known performer, who one critic called "the entertainer of the millennium," will perform for the second time in Fort Scott next weekend. Marilyn Maye, a 78-year-old accomplished jazz cabaret singer and recording artist, will perform at 7 p.m., Saturday, May 19; and at 3 p.m., May 20, at the Liberty Theatre, 113 S. ...

A group of Fort Scott Community College students participated in a mud volleyball tournament on Tuesday as part of Spring Fling activities at the college. The winning team's participants were Zach Freeman, Akyra Kirkwood, Farrah Logwood, D'Mario Newton, Samantha Ribas and Rodney Spillman. Other activities conducted during the week included a campus-wide barbecue and an obstacle course. A mud tug-of-war event on Thursday concluded the week's activities...

By Robin Hixson Herald-Tribune FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- More than 100 community businesspeople, volunteers and residents came together at noon Tuesday in the Scottish Rite Temple to honor those among them who have worked the hardest and given the most toward realization of their collective dream to strengthen and revitalize Fort Scott...

Herald-Tribune Nevada, Mo. -- Residents in southwest Missouri and southeast Kansas have formed the Cherokee Plains Chapter of Quail Forever. Leading the group is Scott Sudkamp, a private lands biologist with the Missouri Department of Conservation. The new QF chapter will concentrate its efforts on habitat projects in Vernon, Barton, Cedar, St. Clair and Bates counties in Missouri and in Bourbon County, Kan...

By Ralph Pokorny Herald-Tribune Nevada, Mo. -- The Nevada Airport Board moved the renovations at the Nevada Municipal Airport a little closer to reality during a special meeting Thursday. The board voted to recommend that the city council accept the bids for the runway renovations and voted to recommend that council approve advertising for bids for the new terminal building...

By Jason E. Silvers Herald-Tribune UNIONTOWN -- The USD 235 Board of Education is scheduled to get more information on a plan to update the seven-year old crisis plan at West Bourbon Elementary School during their regular meeting on Monday. In January, WBE Principal Marianna Daugherty told the board about a plan by WBE officials to review and update the school's current crisis plan, which was designed in 2000. ...

By Crystal D. Hancock Herald-Tribune All across the world, more than 46 countries honor mothers with a special day, but not all nations celebrate on the same day. People honor mothers with cards, candy, flowers and dinner. Mother's Day was first suggested in the United States by Julia Ward Howe, writer of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. She suggested that this day be dedicated to peace. Howe organized Mother's Day meetings in Boston every year...

Kent Buford, of Fort Scott, passed away Thursday May 10, 2007, at St. Luke's in Kansas City, Mo., at the age of 57. Kent was born on July 25, 1949, in Fort Scott, Kan., to George "Art" and Lucille (Brennan) Buford, who owned Art's Fruit Market in Belltown...

Willis William "Bill" Hill, 92, of Fort Scott, passed away Friday morning, May 11, 2007, at the Mercy Health Center. He was born Nov. 25, 1914, the son of William "Will" and Mattie (Karnes) Hill. Bill served in the United States Army, and was an auto mechanic, owning and operating his own business...

Raymond Comstock, 77, Coffeyville, Kan., died Friday, May 11, 2007, at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Topeka, Kan. Services will be announced at a later date by the Cheney Witt Chapel, Bronson, Kan.

A couple of the local anglers have been running trot lines at the power plant lake at LaCygne. I was listening with interest as they told about catching blue gill for baitfish, stringing the lines, and seeing what treasures show up on the end of the hooks. For two days straight they ran the lines in the rain...

Hi neighbors. Happy Mother's Day! Are you a mother? All of us have a mother, at least a birth mother. Some of you may have had more than one mother, maybe even before birth. A surrogate mother may have carried you for nine months before your actual biological parents took you home...

By Scott Nuzum Herald-Tribune WICHITA, Kan. -- Fort Scott Community College held off a rally from Dodge City to take an 8-7 victory in the Region VI Tournament quarterfinals at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium Friday evening. The Greyhounds advanced to a Saturday night meeting with the winner of the late Neosho County-Butler game, which was set to begin at 7 p.m. ...

Herald-Tribune JOPLIN, Mo. -- Nevada senior Ryan Kimbrough beat Bolivar's Brady Cox in the quarterfinals of the Class 1, District 5 tennis tournament at Thomas Jefferson Friday, advancing to Saturday's semifinals. Kimbrough beat Cox in straight sets 7-5, 6-2. Nevada's No. 1 player is the only Tiger alive after the first day of district play...

Herald-Tribune PARSONS, Kan. -- Fort Scott High School's boys finished fourth while the girls were seventh at the Southeast Kansas League Relays Friday. Chanute won the boys' title while Pittsburg took the girls' championship by two points over Chanute...

Boy, did we ever get handed a bill of goods. I'm sure that most of you, like me, were led to believe all winter that the 2007 Kansas City Royals would be a vastly improved ballclub. It's kind of like global warming. If they tell you something often enough, you are inclined to believe it. ...

Every camper knows about Coleman products, it might be a camping stove, lantern, tent or even a canoe. This week I received a 2007 outdoor products catalog and it is filled with products designed to make camping and other outdoor excursions more efficient and more comfortable...