By Jeff Gulley The Osawatomie volleyball team went 2-1 Thursday night in matches played at Prairie View. The Trojans opened the night with a 25-20, 25-18 win over Prairie View. Tayler Soucie had 12 kills and two blocks in the two games. Tess Newport had 15 assists and Kaylee Hurt had four aces. The Trojans’ [...]
By Jeff Gulley Doug Kueser finished in eighth place Thursday at the Wellsville cross country meet and the Trojan boys’ team took fourth place. Kueser ran a time of 18:39. Nick Lewis was 15th finishing with a time of 18:58 and Grant Maimer was 18th with a time of 19:12. Rounding out the varsity team [...]
By Jeff Gulley Osawatomie started out strong against the Girard Trojans Friday night but the defense couldn’t hold down the visiting team in a 65-38 loss. Osawatomie’s defense shut down the visiting Trojans on the first series and forced a punt. On the first place from scrimmage, Austin Chisam connected with Brandon Oakes for a [...]
By Jeremy Gulley In his book Stuff of Thought, Stephen Pinker argues that the events of 9-11 are difficult to categorize. He explores the difference between seeing the attacks as one attack, with the events lumped together, or whether to separate them into four separate attacks. As I read Pinker’s argument, I started thinking . [...]
By Jeff Gulley With a lot of experience returning to the boys’ cross country team, coach Matt Higgins has high hopes of some top finishes late in the year at league and regionals. With goals set high, Higgins hopes that success this year will help build the program. “We would like to place in the [...]
By Jeff Gulley New head coach Darren Soucie knows a lot about the group of volleyball players he is coaching this year. Soucie has been in the stands for the past two seasons watching his daughter Taylor play. This season, he will rely on Taylor, three other returning starters and some new talent to improve [...]
Goldie Hardesty Aug. 26, 1918 – Aug. 20, 2011 Goldie Hardesty, 92, Moran, a native of Garnett and formerly of Bush City, died Saturday, Aug. 20, 201, in the Moran Manor Nursing Home. She was born Aug. 26, 1918, on a farm near Garnett, the daughter of Willie and Mary Caroline Bump Olson. She attended [...]
By Shirley Erickson 100 Years Ago The Pacific Express Co. went out of existence as a going concern at 12 o’clock Monday night and the Wells Fargo took over its business. The chief change here lies in the fact that Orion Oliver has the contract to deliver all express matter in the city. He will [...]
A LINE in an obituary reminded me of a “lost art” or almost a lost art. The obit reported a woman had been a wall paper hanger for 42 years. My father and mother did their own paper hanging and I can remember how much fresher the rooms would look after they were done. [...]
I had so much fun challenging myself to tour a historic site each week this summer that I thought I would take on a new challenge this fall. I am going on the hunt for great cups of coffee that come with interesting stories. In fact, I already had a great cup of coffee and [...]