Stories from Saturday, October 6, 2012

FORT SCOTT-- Bourbon County officials addressed a full agenda on Friday, including reaching an agreement with K&W Underground, a contractor for Verizon Wireless, which commissioners said buried conduit along county roads and bored under those roads without a permit. Commissioners demanded K&W Underground pay for regraveling of those roads and repair any damage done to properties and driveways along Poplar Road from 235th Street to Verizon's tower on 205th Street...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- Barbara Baker-Burrows said she never intended to get into the photography field. She just wanted to dance. Burrows, this year's recipient of the Gordon Parks Choice of Weapons Award, shared some thoughts on Parks and photography, and discussed her career as photo editor at Life magazine during "A Conversation with Bobbi Baker-Burrows" Friday morning at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center on the Fort Scott Community College campus...

Kansas redistricting tossed Rep. Caryn Tyson, R-Parker, out of the House of Representatives in Topeka and into a state senate race, prompted former Democratic Rep. Shirley Palmer of Fort Scott to stage a comeback and drew former Linn County Commissioner Marty Read into the District 4 House race as Palmer's Republican opponent...

Herald-Tribune Vernon County Prosecutor Lynn Ewing III was willing to go to extremes in an effort to raise money for the Southwest Missouri Children's Center. According to a news release, the Children's Center expects to register more than 1,000 child abuse cases in 2012...

Hi neighbors. This Monday we can celebrate (and government employees stay home from work) Columbus Day. I'm not certain why we have a Monday holiday to celebrate Columbus Day. The usual reply is due to Christopher Columbus discovering America. Of course it wasn't America when he discovered it. I asked Flossie's opinion...

For the first 10 years of my life we lived in a four room house, two and a half miles west of Blue Mound, Kan. The house had no running water or electricity. Then we moved across the road to the house where my grandmother had been living. The original house was plain and simple, but it worked. After we moved, my dad sold that house for $800, and the man who bought it moved it to Gas City, Kan...

Tanya Hadley and Tim Hessong exchanged wedding vows on Sept. 1, 2012, at Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, in Mission, Kan. Vows were solemnized by the Rev. Bill Breedlove. The bride is the daughter of Cecil and Phyllis Combs, Fort Scott, and granddaughter of Cecil Combs, Marjorie Logan, and John Fowler, Fort Scott, and Kenneth and Juanita Harper, Quinlan, Okla...

Special to the Herald-Tribune Air Force Capt. Edward D. Reese has graduated from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. The graduate received a medical degree and was commissioned to the rank of captain, with a minimum seven-year active duty service commitment...

Special to the Herald-Tribune Army Pfc. Asa A. Harlow Fitzpatrick has graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier received training in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, and Army history, core values and traditions. ...

Herald-Tribune SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- In what Nevada Tiger Football Head Coach Wes Beachler called "an outstanding team effort on both sides of the ball," the opportunistic Nevada Tigers football squad mauled the Springfield Central Bulldogs on the road Friday night to prevail 49-19 and go 5-2 on their increasingly encouraging season...

Herald-Tribune The Nevada Lady Tigers took on the McDonald County Lady Mustangs Thursday in the annual Dig for a Cure volleyball game. "We had a lot of support from the community," head coach Ashley Thoreson said. "Tonight was our Dig for a Cure night and we had a lot of support from the community. ...

By Eric Wade Herald-Tribune Warrensburg, Mo. -- A three-peat. It's one of the hardest things for a team in any sport to pull off and that was the goal the Nevada Lady Tigers softball team took to Jennies Field at the University of Central Missouri. The Lady Tigers came into the contest against the Pleasant Hill Chicks not only hoping to win their third consecutive district championship, but to avenge a regular season loss at Bushwhacker Field. ...