Stories from Saturday, June 7, 2008

Hi neighbors. I hope you still have a roof on your house, and a house under your roof! These winds have been particularly nasty this past week. While most of us decided to stay home this summer and not spend the money on gas to take lengthy vacations; we had at least anticipated relaxing in our homes...

The thing I miss more than anything from the paper, is Kelly Bradham and his baseball articles. His love of the game and the historical figures who played it remains beyond compare. That's why I think he will enjoy my modest attempt to honor one of the legends of the game this week...

Local support ensures cross-country bicycle race will pass through area once moreBy Scott Nuzum Herald-Tribune OCEANSIDE, Calif. -- The annual Race Across America (RAMM) started here this morning, once again with about 250 entrants seeking to complete a 3,000-plus-mile cross-country journey to Annapolis, Md. This course is longer than the total distance riders travel in the more-famous Tour de France...

Herald-Tribune The Lion's Club is hosting their annual high school basketball all star game. The game is an invitation only event for players and coaches, and is reserved for the graduating class of each year it takes place. Nevada High School has 3 players who were selected to play this year, on the girls' and boys' teams. ...

This past week I tried something that I hadn't done in awhile and I don't know why. With all the high water in the big impoundments, I dug out my fly rod and hit several area ponds and had a ball catching big bluegill and bass. Usually, around the Memorial Day Weekend, the insects are falling into the water creating a feeding frenzy among the panfish and bass. That's when I bring out the underused fly rod and head out to a pond for lots of action...

The Neighborhood Revital-ization action team from Fort Scott Community Visioning has an incentive to get more people involved in revitalizing Fort Scott. The NR team has service projects planned throughout the summer, including park clean up, neighborhood clean up block parties, tree planting, inoperative vehicle disposal drives and clean sweeps...

June 2 10:02 a.m.: No transport 12:30 p.m.: No transport 3:10 p.m.: Transport to Nevada Regional Medical Center 11:39 pm.: Transport to Nevada Regional Medical Center June 3 4:10 p.m.: Transport to Nevada Regional Medical Center 11:49 p.m.: No transport...

The criminal case against a Fort Scott man who had charges against him stemming from a Bourbon County Grand Jury investigation will be dropped, according to a deputy Kansas Attorney General. Greg Kuplen, who was charged by the Kansas AG's office with two felony counts of presenting a false claim, died May 6...

"Nurse Goodbody," the vixen of fundraising, usually known as Dr. Bill Turner, wiggled her way through businesses in downtown Nevada on Friday, soliciting. Soliciting donations, that is, for Relay for Life, an annual event benefitting the American Cancer Society. ...

Marchers in historical costumes carry the American Flag in the 2008 Good Ol' Days parade, Friday evening in Fort Scott. Look for more parade photos online at www.fstribune.com.

With the first day of summer fast approaching and temperatures steadily rising, the possibility of children suffering ill-effects from being left in a hot vehicle is increasing. According to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, throughout the last decade, about 365 children across the United States have been fatally affected by heatstroke after being left in a vehicle. ...

You cannot miss his 40-foot teepee, nor the stories he tells. Ron McMillian of Garden City, Mo., has made it his life's work to teach all who will listen about his ancestry. Hagaoda, which means "Turtle," represents the clan his family comes from in the Kiowa Indians...

The entrance to the Vernon County Public Defender's office is like many others in Nevada, except for the name inlaid in tile at the entryway -- Talbot. The vagaries of wind blow grass, leaves and other debris into the entrance, often obscuring the name. But it takes more than a little clutter to blot out the Talbot name or lessen the impact it had on turn-of-the-century Nevada...

Minnie Louisa Joy, 81, formerly of Fort Scott, and more recently of Pittsburg, Kan., died Friday, June 6, 2008, at Carrington Place in Pittsburg. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.