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Overdraft fees follow payroll switch the county was warned against

Bourbon County used to run its payroll inside CIC, the same program it uses to keep its books. In August 2025 the county commission voted to stop doing that and to pay Emerson & Company for access to its PayEntry software instead. Before the vote, the county clerk warned commissioners that PayEntry would not fit the county’s accounting system.

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AmericanMaid expects about 100 jobs at the former Timken plant

FORT SCOTT — AmericanMaid, a California maker of plastic housewares, is moving into the former Timken building at 4505 Campbell Drive and expects to create about 100 jobs in its first year, City Manager Brad Matkin announced Tuesday, Nov. 3. Matkin said in a post on the city’s Facebook...

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16 homeless, plus high school ‘couch surfers’: Hope Outreach asks for time, not money

FORT SCOTT — Hope Outreach of Fort Scott, the group that began as the Homeless Alliance, came away with a liaison from both the county and the city after asking each for time instead of money. “What we would like from the county is not money at all. It...

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