From blood-pressure kits to spooky book clubs and a new sensory “Shushbooth,” Fort Scott Public Library is expanding free ...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. — A relic of our nation’s past sits in Fort Scott and is being celebrated with a grant. Fort Scott’s Public Library is one of the last 750 operating Carnegie libraries in America.

For the past 17 years, Jennifer Schultz worked for Scott County, but never in a library. That all changed in October, when she was named the new Scott County Library Director. “I don’t have a library ...