The City of Fort Scott City Administrative Offices will be closed on Monday, February 17th, 2020 in observance of the President’s Day holiday. The offices will reopen on Tuesday, February 18th, 2020.
The City’s tree and brush dump site located on North Hill will also be closed on Saturday, February 15th, 2020 for the President’s Day holiday. It will be open again on Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
There will be a work session of the Fort Scott City Commission held on Wednesday, February 12th, 2020 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the City Commission meeting room at 123 S. Main Street. This work session will be held to discuss sanitary sewer in the City of Fort Scott. There will be no action taken by the City Commission at this work session. This work session is open to the public.
Nancy Johnson, a licensed esthetician, has moved shop.
“I wanted to be downtown,” Johnson said.
Formerly on the south end of Fort Scott, she has moved her business, Visage Skin Care Spa, to 5 E. Wall.
The move took place in November 2019, but then Johnson and her husband took an extended vacation.
Johnson has been in the business for 13 years and received her training at the Euro Institute of Holistic Skin Care in Renton, Washington.
The services she provides are facials, waxing, lash and brow tinting, sugaring, body and foot treatments and she sells Niko Organic Skin Care products.
She can put together a gift basket for a loved one for Valentine’s Day or any special occasion.
Johnson is hosting the weekly Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce coffee on Feb. 13 at 8 a.m., with a ribbon-cutting for the business to follow the coffee at 8:30 a.m.
Johnson works by appointment and can be reached at 620.224.6455.
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Moe’s Breads Bakery is having a grand opening on Feb. 15 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
“We will have drawings for merchandise and coupons,” said owner Melissa McCurry. “Seventy-five cents coffee, $1 single biscuits and gravy and are giving away 100 mini-muffins for a door prize.”
“We are doing a raffle for the 3rd-grade boys’ basketball to go to state, tickets are $1,” McCurry said. “We will draw at the grand opening for a full pan of cinnamon rolls.”
Hours of the bakery are from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Saturday and Sunday hours are 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
To place an order, call 620-768-8009.
Every morning McCurry makes homemade biscuits and homemade gravy and starts selling it and other breads, cookies, muffins along with hot and cold drinks at 5 a.m.
There is a lounge area in the bakery with a couch, table, and chairs in an adjacent room.
The list of food items sold:
The fruit loaves include banana, pumpkin, blueberry, and zucchini. They sell for $6. Apple cinnamon and caramel pecan swirl loaves are $7.
Cookies include banana chocolate chip, peanut butter, chocolate cream for $4 a dozen, no-bake cookies sell for $6.
Yeast bread orders must be placed 24-hours prior and start at $5: white, wheat, French, challah, jalapeno cheese, ciabatta, cinnamon rolls, and sourdough.
Coffee can be purchased for $1.25 and tea for75 cents. Soda, milk, orange juice, and energy drinks are also sold.
As a result of times on Thursday evening at the Parson’s swim meet, Bobby Kemmerer and Oliver Witt will be the first Fort Scott High School swimmers in school history to swim at the Kansas 1A-5A State High School Swim meet.
Oliver qualified for state in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1.56.65 and a consideration time in the 100 butterfly.
Bobby qualified in two races, the 100 free with a time of 50.98 and the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1.06.32.
Local business, My1Stop, is an online print company that makes promotional items for other businesses.
The business creates plastic cards, key tags, forms, envelopes, shipping labels, gift card carriers, medical ID forms and wristbands, industrial labels, among other items.
“We started in 2005 when we saw the need to sell print online and also to sell nationally and internationally,” according to Tina Wilson, who works inside sales and customer service.
“We want to make businesses in Fort Scott grow,” she said.
The business has been family owned and operated all those years.
“In 2020, we decided we needed to be involved more in the community,” Wilson said.
The staff: Kevins Collins, national sales; Rozemma Perry, inside sales; Wilson, and Brice Leonard, sales representative, are taking part in the community through involvement in the Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce, Young Professional League, mentoring and local youth and church organizations. Other staff are marketing, graphic design and accounting.
They recently hosted a Chamber Coffee to tell their story.
To contact, call 1.800.MY1STOP.
They are located at 3200 Liberty Bell Road, Suite 300.
The hours of operation are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. CST.
Orders can be placed online 24 hours a day online.
Lauber Municipal Law will be holding a City Officials Training Seminar on Saturday, February 8th, 2020 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The seminar will be held in the City Commission meeting room. The City Commission has been invited and a majority of the City Commission may attend, although this is not a formal meeting of the Commission, nor will binding action be taken. This gathering may be subject to the Kansas Open Meetings Act and thus it is considered an open meeting.
The seminar’s agenda includes topics in Kansas Local Government law.
Attorney Andrew Bolton moved his office to a downtown location in November 2019.
He specializes in family law.
“Divorce, custody, adoptions,” Bolton said. “I also do estate planning and other help. A general practice, like small-town lawyers do.”
Bolton said he enjoys helping people and the profession allows him to do that. He often works with people at a low point in their life.
” It’s nice that in a small town I usually know the person,” he said.
He can be reached at 620-644-9210.
Bolton said he is usually at his Fort Scott office on Thursdays and Fridays.
Bolton graduated from Fort Scott High School in 1999, went to Pittsburg State University and then earned his law degree from Notre Dame University in 2006. He worked for with a firm in Lawrence until 2012 when he started his own firm.
In 2015 he opened an office in Fort Scott and Louisburg, and just recently moved his office downtown, 14 S. Main.
The Wind Science Tinker Lab will be at Buck Run Community Center onFebruary 24, 4 – 5 p.m.
Experiment with wind science at the Buck Run Community Center with Miss Val and FSCC education student Courtney Williams, Jennifer Terell from the K-State Extension Office and 4-H, Michelle Stevenson from the Fort Scott Early Childhood Program, Star McClellan from Parents as Teachers, and a SEK-CAP representative.
Participants will take part in science activities, listen to a story about wind, reflect on what they’ve learned, and enter to win an Airzooka wind cannon! Each pre-registered parent or educator will also receive a mini science kit packed with wind science experiments and instructions and a free book (while supplies last).
To pre-register, visit this link: https://forms.gle/p8pq7vVCyp7MrfGi9 and fill out the form, or stop by the library to fill out a paper form.
Admission is FREE and refreshments will be served.
This event is made possible in part through a grant from Leap into Science, courtesy of the Franklin Institute.
To learn more about the Leap into Science program, visit http://leap.fi.edu/
Follow the event on Facebook at this link: https://www.facebook.com/events/584053252374595/
Jessica Allison, a professional counselor, has started a new service in the community, at Compass Counseling Services, Inc.
This service is domestic mediation.
“This is an alternative to court action for people seeking resolution in parenting/custody disputes,” Allison said.
“I am a Certified Domestic Mediator in the State of Kansas,” she said. “This certification is through the Kansas Supreme Court.”
She also provides individual counseling, couple’s counseling, anger assessments, and substance abuse assessments.
“I have lived in Bourbon County for over 40 years,” Allison said.
Allison earned a master’s degree in community counseling from Pittsburg State University in 2008.
“I have been licensed since 2011 and have been operating a part-time private practice since 2013,” she said.
She is a Kansas Licensed Clinician Professional Counselor, and Kansas Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor.
The address of her counseling practice is 120 South National Avenue Suite 203B (2nd Floor of the Post Office Building).
Allison can be contacted at 620-223-1555 or email:
[email protected] or website:
In the community, Allison is a member of Post #25 American Legion of Fort Scott, and is also the director of the Post #25 American Legion Riders.
