Monthly Archives: February 2026
KS Senate Works To Cut Red Tape For Building Single Family Homes
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FSHS Performs Clue (High School Edition) on March 5-7
Fort Scott High School Performs Clue (H.S. Edition)
Fort Scott High School performs the play Clue (H.S. Edition) at 7 p.m. on March 5-7 in the FSHS Auditorium.
“It’s a dark and stormy night, and we’ve been invited to a very unusual dinner party. Each of the guests has an alias, the butler offers a variety of weapons, and the host is, well, dead. So whodunit? Join the iconic oddballs known as Scarlet, Plum, White, Green, Peacock, and Mustard as they race to find the murderer in Boddy Manor before the body count stacks up. Based on the cult classic film and the popular board game, Clue is a madcap comedy that will keep the audience guessing until the final twist,” according to Concord Theatricals.
The show features seniors Levi Fairchild as Wadsworth the butler, Sypher Cannon as Mrs. White, and Grace Walker as Miss Scarlet; juniors Landon Hill as Professor Plum and Ava Johnson as Mrs. Peacock; and sophomores Theodore Bowman as Mr. Green, Gianna Gorman as Yvette the maid, and Tray Maloun as Colonel Mustard.
Clue is adapted from the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn and written by Sandy Rustin, with additional material by Hunter Foster and Eric Price. Parental guidance is suggested as the play includes simulated use of weapons and smoking.
Tickets are reserved seating and are $8 for adults and $6 for youth. Tickets are available at fortscotthighschool.ludus.com or at the door. Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime.
Clue (H.S. Edition) is directed by FSHS Theatre Director Angie Bin with Mesa Jones as Assistant Director and Jericho Jones as Sound Designer.
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Barb Trimbur Closes The Iron Star Store in Downtown Fort Scott
Barbara Trimbur is a “hunter and gatherer” at heart, she said.
In 1996 she started a flea market vendor booth at this building. She began renting more booths and gathering items to sell. Eventually, she “took over the back room” of the flea market,” she said.
“Yvonne Beck owned the store and I mentioned that if she ever got tired of doing this, I was interested,” Trimbur said. That was in November 2003.
“The first year Cindy Bowman (another vendor) and I did an open house around the holidays,” she said.
The store next door, Corner of Time, became available to rent when Cathy Reed and her husband left. She started expanding and moved into that store.
In 2014, the building owner, Steve McGinnis, was interested in selling the store, so Trimbur purchased the whole building at 3 North Main Street in Fort Scott’s Historic Downtown District.
The store, The Iron Star Antiques and Such, was an anchor in the downtown for these decades.
On February 13, 2026 she closed her doors.
A young couple has purchased the building and her inventory.
“I just had to move out a few things,” she said.
“It’s been a very emotional transaction for me,” she said. “I had no idea how people really felt about us.”
“The store was a place where people could decompress. We tried to treat everybody with respect, whether they spent $5 or $500.”
Trimbur had two consigners at the store, people who brought items in to be sold: Karen Mix and Cathy Thomas.
The challenge through the years has been “to win over ‘Where are we going to put that?’ But, some of the grumpy men became our best friends.” Many customers became friends over the years, she said.
The best part of the job was helping people create a warm space
“The building needed to be taken over by somebody younger with visions for it,” she said. “It’s time to let go. Maybe I’ll do a little traveling.”
“I’ll have a booth here and there and continue hunting and gathering antiques and decor things that bring joy.”
Trimbur would like to thank Fort Scott and the surrounding area for “Making us feel so appreciated. We had about 1/3 of our customers that came from Nevada (MO) and Pittsburg. We are lucky to have such a pretty downtown.”
A Wedding Testimony by Patty LaRoche
Author: A Little Faith Lift…Finding Joy Beyond Rejection
www.alittlefaithlift.com
AWSA (Advanced Writers & Speakers Assoc.)
When Montana, my granddaughter, called to say that she and her fiancé, Ian, had set their wedding date, I was excited to put it on my calendar. “February 3, 2026,” she announced. Surely my calendar was wrong…or Montana was mistaken.
“Mo, that’s a Tuesday.”
“I know,” she declared, excitedly.
“Is this a destination wedding?” I questioned.
“No, Grandma, we’re getting married in Fort Scott…at my parent’s house.”
“Well then, where will the reception be?” I pressed. Mo had it all figured out. “It will be an outdoor wedding, and the reception will be inside their house.” This was not my business to question. Still, I questioned. “Mo, do you know what Kansas weather is like in February, not to mention, Tuesdays are in the middle of the week?”
“I know.”
“Then why did you choose that day?”
“Because God gave me that date.”
There was only one thing I could say: “Well, then, February 3 it is.” As I later found out, that date, years before, had been one in which Mo made a heart-change to follow the Lord and trust that His ways are far higher than ours could ever be. The wedding was a testimony to that.
Mo and Ian chose several “unusual” things for their big day (like a Ding-Dong wedding cake and a stadium hot-dog bar), not the least of which was to have actual church pews for the guests. I mean, it’s not like church pews are available at Walmart, and no church that I know of would be amenable to loaning theirs out for an outdoor wedding. Especially a February wedding. But that’s where God did what only God can do.
As it turned out, someone had donated dozens of antique, wooden church pews to the nuns who live in Fort Scott. The pews were in a semi-truck, waiting for volunteers to sand and stain them. And that’s where Mo’s family and friends offered to help. Weeks of work went into preparing the pews for the wedding ceremony, definitely a blessing to Mo and Ian, but God had plans much grander than the February 3 event.
The week before the wedding, the snow, wind and freezing temperatures caused schools and businesses to close. If this weather continued, how would we survive an outdoor wedding? I envisioned wedding photos with icicles hanging from our nose hairs and updo’s ruined by earmuffs. How could antique, wooden church pews endure freezing rain?
And then came Tuesday. Bright, sunny skies. Temperature in the mid-40’s. No wind.
But the bigger blessing came after the wedding when volunteers from the Catholic Church delivered the slightly-used pews to the nuns who now would have beautiful, refinished pews for a lifetime. It should come as no surprise that the One who orchestrates things like temperatures can turn a blessing for an hour into a blessing for a lifetime. What a God we serve!
K-3 bridge in Bourbon County to be replaced
Post Date:02/09/2026 9:00 AM
Work will begin the week of Feb. 16 to replace the Little Osage River bridge on K-3 about two miles south of the Linn County line, according to the Kansas Department of Transportation.
The 36-mile official detour (see map) will be in place later that week, conditions permitting. KDOT uses state highways for official detour routes for safety, weight and maintenance concerns.
Southbound K-3 traffic should follow the signed detour west on K-31 to U.S. 59, south on U.S. 59 to U.S. 54 and east on U.S. 54. Northbound traffic should follow the detour route in the opposite direction.
The project is expected to be completed by December, conditions permitting.
The new bridge will be 313 feet long and 32 feet wide with 12-foot driving lanes and 4-foot shoulders.
KDOT awarded the $4.19 million construction contract to Bridges Inc., of Newton. The project is funded through KDOT’s 10-year, nearly $10 billion Eisenhower Legacy Transportation Program (IKE), which is focusing on preserving, modernizing and expanding Kansas’ transportation system.
Check KDOT’s www.kandrive.gov for updated highway conditions and construction details. Persons with questions may contact KDOT Public Information Officer Ray Nolting at (620) 902-6433.
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Letter to the Editor: Randy Nichols
An open letter to our congressional leaders,
The United Methodist Social Creed calls for a day “when Justice and Mercy embrace.” Imagine, the law and Golden Rule in harmony. Justice and Mercy embracing to create fairness and equality, not retaliation and retribution. Could there be a better principle to guide your governing decisions? Think about that: immigration enforcement without paramilitary ICE imbedded in civil society leading to denigration of the humanity of immigrants and the arrest, and worse, killing of American citizens; no military action in Venezuela to claim their oil resources as “ours” while leaving their people repressed and poor; no late night racist political memes of our first black president and his wife as apes, and no more executive policies for self-aggrandizement and enrichment of those in power while ignoring basic needs like food and housing for others.
Justice and Mercy embracing lead to: policies that strengthen relationships with our military and trading allies; far tax policies, expanded voting rights, improved access to health care; also policies that protect the most vulnerable among us including the poor, the elderly, and minority groups as related to race, color, creed, sexual and gender identity. Justice and mercy embracing would promote critically needed balanced energy policies that protect our world from worsening climate change and its threat to all humanity.
Justice and Mercy in balance offer us, as a nation, the path forward our founders envisioned and we have historically strived to become. Justice and Mercy embracing is the antidote to authoritarian rule.
Please, as our congressional leaders, reclaim your position as a co-equal branch of government and reestablish the balance of Justice and Mercy Embracing we so desperately need. The power is in your hands. The choice is yours. We, the voters, are judging your decision.
Randy Nichols MD
Fort Scott, Kansas
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KS Victim Notification Service Directory Is Being Developed
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