Stories from Saturday, September 22, 2012

Nola Maxine Bruce, 93, Nevada, went to her heavenly home on Friday, Sept. 21, at Mercy Hospital, Fort Scott, Kan. She was born Sept. 23, 1918, in Lucas, Kan., to Robert Newton Johnston and Leona Ann Dengate Johnston. She married Chester Lee Bruce Sr. on Dec. 24, 1942, in Yuma, Ariz., and he preceded her in death on July 19, 1981...

The family of Ralph Reed will honor him with a celebration Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012, from 2 to 5 p.m., at the Franklin P. Norman City-County Community Center, in Nevada. All family and friends are welcome to stop by and wish him a happy 90th birthday.

Although few Bourbon County men were killed during the Civil War, the fear of violence was pervasive on the Fort Scott military post and town. "Regardless of your reasons for going to war, I think most would agree the cost of war is terrible," Fort Scott National Historic Site Ranger Barak Geertsen told those on an evening tour Saturday. ...

U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., this week submitted a statement for the congressional record recognizing the efforts of the Lowell Milken Center in Fort Scott. The statement coincided with the center's sixth annual National Project Kick-Off Day on Tuesday...

Among the appointees to the Kansas Ecotourism Steering Committee is someone with ties to Southeast Kansas. Joe Bisogno of Olathe, president and CEO of Techcom Worldwide LLC, owns Timber Hills Lake Ranch in Mapleton. Timber Hills, according to its website, offers lodging, hunting, fishing and guided tours of the grounds, among many other attractions...

Nevada Police report that they made an arrest in conjunction with a burglary investigation which occurred on Sept. 19. Police were notified by a resident that a female subject was observed unlawfully entering a house in the 800 block of North Colorado. Witnesses reported that the suspect stole a chain saw and other power tools, a news release said...

Republican secretary of state nominee Shane Schoeller of Willard has trod the length and breadth of Missouri since addressing Nevada's Lincoln Day Dinner last April 6, and he faces another big challenge in his Nov. 6 showdown against Kansas City Democrat Jason Kander...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- Sentencing was handed down Friday morning in the case of a former Fort Scott High School paraeducator who pleaded guilty in July to aggravated indecent liberties with a child and promoting obscenity to minors. Bourbon County District Judge Mark Ward sentenced Kimberly Cannon to 61 months in the Kansas Department of Corrections for the first offense and 12 months in the Southeast Kansas Regional Correctional Center on the secondary charge...

The $47 million U.S. Highway 69 Corridor project became a little clearer, at least to a handful of journalists, after a Kansas Department of Transportation media tour on Friday morning. The tour, which included guests from as far away as Joplin, Mo., was a six-stop information-packed venture along what will become a new upgradeable expressway from Fort Scott to Arma...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- A local man pleaded not guilty in Bourbon County District Court on Friday to charges he faces in connection with a deadly October 2011 house fire. Brent Bollinger appeared in the courtroom before Bourbon County District Judge Mark Ward with his attorney, Paul Morrison, a former Kansas attorney general. Also present were the prosecutors, Bourbon County Attorney Terri Johnson and Assistant Kansas Attorney General Kristiane Bryant...

Nevada will get some time on a nationally syndicated radio show today. Michael Feldman's "Whad'Ya Know?," a combination quiz and trivia show heard on 89.3 KCUR and 89.9 KRPS, will spotlight Nevada for its "Town of the Week" segment. The show starts at 10 a.m. and concludes at noon. Nevada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Gina Ensor said the city's segment will probably be broadcast during the show's last 15 minutes...

Hi neighbors. Happy Autumn! It is official. Put away the patio furniture. Take in the plants on the porch or deck. There will be frost on the pumpkins any night now. September is almost over, and the next big thing is Halloween! Of course nowadays we call the entire season "Harvest Festival" or some such made-up-to-sell-stuff name...

By Eric Wade Herald-Tribune NEVADA -- On a night that provided ideal conditions for football, the Nevada Tigers took to Logan Field with just one thing in mind -- this year's Homecoming slogan, Bulldoze the Bulldogs. The Bulldogs came into the night at 1-3 and trying to snap a three-game losing streak, as well as spoil the Tigers' Homecoming celebration. ...

By Scott Nuzum Herald-Tribune FORT SCOTT -- The Southeast Kansas League's two highest-scoring teams met at Frary Field Friday night. But Fort Scott High School's defense was the star attraction as the Tigers held visiting Coffeyville to just 105 yards of total offense in a 12-0 victory...

Herald-Tribune NEVADA -- The Nevada and Neosho eighth grade volleyball teams split a match Thursday at the Nevada Middle School. Nevada won the A match by the final scores of 25-20 and 27-25, and Neosho won the B-team match in three sets, 25-12, 22-25 and 25-16. Neosho's seventh graders traveled to Nevada Thursday and swept the two matches, winning the A-team match by the final scores of 25-9 and 25-13, and the B-team match, 15-25, 25-21 and 25-20...

Herald-Tribune STOCKTON, Mo. -- The Nevada Lady Tigers volleyball team had its hands full in a road match at Stockton High School Thursday night, but was ultimately able to overcome a series of errors to come out on top in two sets, adding another victory to its overall record...

Herald-Tribune PITTSBURG, Kan. -- Both Fort Scott High School doubles teams were undefeated in their brackets Thursday as the Tigers finished in second place in the Pittsburg Invitational on the Pittsburg State University courts. Pittsburg scored 14 points to take the team title while Fort Scott had 13. Labette County finished third with seven points followed by Columbus with three and Iola with two...

Herald-Tribune FREDONIA, Kan. -- Uniontown's golf team finished fifth in a field that included golfers from a few larger schools Thursday in the Fredonia Invitational. Caney Valley won the team title by one stroke over Chanute, 190-191. Uniontown finished at 235...

Herald-Tribune CARTHAGE, Mo. -- The Nevada High School tennis team headed back out on the road Thursday afternoon to take on the Lady Tigers of Carthage with less than favorable results. Of the nine matches played, Carthage took seven victories, only losing the first two singles matches. In the No. 1 singles match, Regan Kimbrough defeated Carthage's Morgan Guidie, 8-8 (8-6) and Jessica DeCocq knocked off Makenzie Copeland by a final score of 9-7...

Herald-Tribune UNIONTOWN, Kan. -- A strange final play with perhaps a controversial ruling gave Chetopa a 58-54 victory over Uniontown Friday night, putting a damper on the Eagles' Homecoming festivities. The Eagles (0-2 Three Rivers League, 1-2 overall) led 34-30 at the half and 48-38 after three quarters. But the Green Hornets (2-2, 2-2) outscored the Eagles 20-6 in the fourth quarter...

Herald-Tribune NEVADA -- Caleb Mason, of Nevada, hit a hole-in-one at the Frank E Peters Municipal Golf Course Friday morning. Mason used a 5-wood at a distance of 182 yards to record the ace on hole No. 4. That hole is rated the most difficult on the course...