Uniontown News

More than 100 farm animals herded into Fort Scott during a recent farm animal show for area youth, event organizers said Friday.

Bugs and Mary Ellen George, of Uniontown, Kan., will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary on June 12, 2009, with a reception from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., at the Uniontown High School Commons Area.

Local youth will have the opportunity to learn to cook this summer with the help of the local Kansas State Research and Extension office.

Mr. and Mrs. Buford Johnson will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary on May 21, 2009.

A tornado warning has been issued by the National Weather Service in Springfield MO at 7:13 p.m. NWS has issued the tornado warning for bourbon county until 8:30 p.m. At 7:12 p.m., NWS doppler radar indicated a tornado near Moran or 21 miles southest of Mound City moving east at 30 m.p.h. The tornado will be near: Bronson by 7:20 p.m. Uniontown by ...

The high school careers of about 30 students came to an end Tuesday in front of a packed West Bourbon Elementary School gymnasium.

The Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce is offering its members special tours of area agriculture-related businesses next month.

Wherever radical evil openly flourishes, that's where miracles also abound. A hero is someone who risks her own life in order to save another person's life.

FORT SCOTT, Kan. - The work of a Catholic woman who saved Jewish children during World War II was brought to life a decade ago by four Uniontown High School students, earning them national recognition and her a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.

State Research and Extension agent Ann Ludlum shows a package of dried beans to fourth grade students at Winfield Scott Elementary School on Friday during a nutrition lesson.

The heroic tale of Irena Sendler, the Pole who rescued of 2,500 Jews, many of them children, from the Warsaw Ghetto and elsewhere in Poland, languished in obscurity for decades before four high school students from Uniontown, Kan., rediscovered and popularized it.

USD 235 will conduct screenings of prospective kindergarten students from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 16-17 at West Bourbon Elementary School, 602 Fifth St., Uniontown.

Emily Simpson's budding photography career is already yielding her recognition. The Uniontown High School freshman's photograph of a grape hyacinth was recently chosen to be printed in the spring 2009 edition of Kansas Magazine.

Where the green grass grows... Posted Thursday, March 26, 2009, at 6:50 PM << Previous Respond I haven't always lived in Bourbon County.

On Monday, the USD 235 Board of Education voted to not renew the contracts of long-time administrator Marianna Daugherty and third-year Uniontown High School teacher Brooke Belcher.

The state budget, recent cuts to public schools, and the status of the national economy are a few topics that will be up for discussion during an upcoming legislative forum.

Hiattville 4-H Club will be sponsoring a Soup and Chili Feed, 5-8 p.m., Tuesday, Feb.

Jack and Ellen Gage, of Colorado Springs, Colo., announce the engagement of their daughter, Courtney Lynn Gage, to Steven Clark Ramsey, son of Debra Ramsey, Uniontown, Kan., and Jeff and Robyn Ramsey, Hugoton, ...

"I am so, so disappointed; I'm almost embarrassed that the House took this action," said District 4 Kansas House Representative Shirley Palmer, D-Fort Scott, regarding the Kansas House's decision to pass a ...

County Superintendent Rose Allen is unable to explain why anyone should seek to destroy the Gwinn schoolhouse.