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Buck Run Community Center will be open to the public beginning on July 1st, 2020. The hours for Buck Run will be 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturdays, and 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sundays.
The facility will be limited to a gathering of 45 individuals or less including Buck Run staff. Individuals are reminded to social distance when using this facility.
This will be reevaluated on July 8th, 2020 when the Public Health Officer’s order ends.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please call City Hall at 223-0550 if you have questions.
Allyson Turvey, 30, is the new Fort Scott Community Development Manager, as of May 26, 2020.
Her office is in city hall, phone number 620-223-0550.
She was already performing duties as the Fort Scott Tourism Manager, and when Robert Uhler resigned as Community Development Manager at the end of May, Turvey was given then the additional role.
” My duties will be pretty widespread now that I’ve taken on community development as an additional role,” Turvey said.
“I will be responsible for working with the (Fort Scott)Tourism Advisory Board, Design Review Board, Planning Commission, and Zoning Board. I am also now a member of the Healthy Bourbon County Action Team. I’m now responsible for the LaRoche Complex and Memorial Hall. This includes oversight of each facility, assisting in booking of events, and continuing to market LaRoche (baseball stadium).”
“From a tourism standpoint, I will continue to market Fort Scott as a destination,” she said. “As well as continuing to attend trade shows in an effort to bring group tours, conventions, and meetings to our community. This doesn’t cover all of my duties, but the ultimate goals of the department are to bring more tourists to town in an effort to create an economic impact, and increase Tourism Guest Tax revenues.”
“From a Community Development standpoint, I will work to create a better community for our residents, which will ideally entice new residents along the way,” she said. “This is achieved through widespread collaboration, and continued research for funding opportunities.”
“While I have a wide array of open projects, my major project currently is the Smart Growth America planning and implementation,” Turvey said. “The Smart Growth team visited Fort Scott for a community workshop in February, and recently provided a next steps memo including short, and long term goals and action steps to create progress within our community.”
“Both positions require me to represent the city on a local, regional, statewide, and federal level in an effort to better collaborate, and ideally increase funding opportunities for our community, ” she said.
Turvey has been with the city for just over three years, she said.
” I started as an administrative assistant, where I worked between Fort ScottTourism, Community Development, and Economic Development,” Turvey said. “Last August I was promoted to tourism manager, and have continued to be heavily involved with other city departments, and projects.”
“I have also spent the last year representing the city on a local, regional, statewide, and federal level from both a tourism and community standpoint,” she said. “I’ve been working on alongside the community and economic development departments to meet Smart Growth objectives.
Turvey is originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, but has been living in Kansas for nearly eight years.
Her community involvement includes being the current president of the Young Professionals League and was invited to join PEO just before the start of the pandemic.
“I hope to be initiated as a member once meeting activities resume,” she said.
Allyson Turvey can be reached at 620-238-4919 or
The Gordon Parks Museum, located on the campus of Fort Scott Community College, 2108 S. Horton, will remain closed until July 20th.
Please contact Kirk Sharp at [email protected] with any follow-up questions.
Patriotic songs will be lead by Phil Hammon, with help from others.
There will be a Special Meeting of the Fort Scott City Commission held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 30th, 2020. This meeting will be held to discuss opening of City facilities, the opening of City Commission meetings, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This meeting will be held at 123 S. Main Street in the City Commission meeting room. This meeting will be broadcast on the City’s You tube channel. This meeting will not be open to the public.
The City of Fort Scott Administration Offices will be closed on Friday, July 3rd, 2020 in observance of the Independence Day holiday. The offices will reopen on Monday, July 6th, 2020.
The City’s tree and brush dump will also be closed on Saturday, July 4th, 2020. It will reopen on Tuesday, July 7th, 2020 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
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Workers are transforming a corner intersection in historic downtown Fort Scott.
Mid-Continental Restoration Co. Inc. has done tuckpointing, exterior roof replacement, and stabilization of the walls among other projects in the restoration of the buildings that face both Wall Street and National Avenue.
The building space housing the Common Ground Coffee Co. on east Wall Street was started in November 2018 and completed just before the COVID 19 Pandemic started in the U.S. in March 2020.
To view the prior fortscott.biz story on Common Ground click below:
https://fortscott.biz/news/laroche-buildings-restoration-begins
Kenny Felt Photography moved into space just west of the coffee shop in April 2020.
To view the prior fortscott.biz story on Kenny Felt Photography’s move to the building, click below:
https://fortscott.biz/?s=kenny+felt
Workman are continuing the restoration project at the corner building at Wall and National Avenue.
“We’ve got interior floors to finish, cleaning the interior walls and sealing them and installing the cornice around the top of the building,” Chase Halsey, MCR Project Manager said.
“We are not on-site anymore, on hold until materials arrive, probably August,” Halsey said.
Beau Casper Enterprises has workers on the site.
Josh Morlan, Trading Post, KS, was trimming out the new windows on National Avenue on June 22, he said.
For Halsey and MCR, the business has been booming in the pandemic.
“We haven’t slowed down,” he said. “We are using PPE (personal protection), we have a handwashing station,,. we provide bleach water to all the crews.”
“Everything we had on the books (jobs) to do, they said “Can you be here sooner”, Halsey said.
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The Street Advisory Board will meet on Thursday, July 2nd, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. at the City Commission Meeting Room at 123 S. Main Street.
The Street Advisory Board meeting will not be open to the public at this time due to the limited number allowed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This meeting will be made available via the City’s you tube channel at City of Fort Scott.