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Bourbon County Commissioners and members of a budget advisory committee reviewed the committee's proposed budget changes for 2026 during a work session Thursday evening. Commissioners and committee ...
A week after voting to provide infrastructure services to support Fort Scott Community College leaders in a grant program, Fort Scott City Commissioners on Tuesday voted to rescind that offer after ...
Dr. Robert Wayne Stark, known affectionately as Wayne to his friends and family, passed away on Aug. 19, 2025, due to heart complications. Born on April 14, 1937, in Blue Mound, Kan., the son of Nolan ...
With a joyful heart, Kara Jeneane Wood Baker moved to her heavenly home on Aug. 22, 2025, just six days before her 92nd birthday. She had no fear of death, as she had been preparing all her life for ...
Katheryn L Kelley, age 79 went home to be with the Lord on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025 in Edmond, Okla., where she resided with her daughter Tonya, due to declining health. She was born on March 26, 1946 in ...
In the past 30 days, Freeman Fort Scott Hospital, Inc. has achieved several significant milestones, bringing the six-bed emergency department and 10-bed acute care hospital closer to fruition. The ...
A Mapleton man was injured in a one-vehicle collision involving a deer Tuesday night on Kansas Highway 31. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol crash log, a 2015 Harley Davidson motorcycle driven by ...
Look what is happening in our small community. As of the 2020 Census, the total population of the incorporated cities in Bourbon County was 8,464, and 5,896 live in unincorporated communities and ...
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is reminding private nonprofit (PNP) organizations in Kansas of the Sept. 22 deadline to apply for low interest federal disaster loans to offset physical ...
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) today announced that the measles outbreak affecting southwest Kansas has officially ended. Two full incubation periods, for a total of 42 days, ...