By Jeff Gulley The city of Osawatomie wastewater treatment plant will get a $25,000 upgrade after the council approved the purchase of a new automated control system. Interim city manager Don Jordan told the council Thursday night that the plant’s decanters were replaced recently but one is not functioning properly. Jordan said the current system [...]
By Shirley Erickson 100 Years Ago The school board at its regular meeting in the superintendent’s office Monday evening installed its new members and organized for business for the approaching year of school. T.H. Dyer and Abe White are the newly installed members and R.A. Chenoweth elected by the board to fill the vacancy caused [...]
By Kevin Gray Kansas adjusted in 1857 to an unsettled peace following the bloody events of 1856, including the sacking of Lawrence and Osawatomie, the Pottawatomie Massacre near Lane, the Battle of Black Jack near Baldwin, the Battle of Franklin near Lawrence and the Battle of Osawatomie, Actually, the bloodshed on the Kansas-Missouri border would [...]
Frank T. Carpenter Jr. Nov. 22, 1916 – Aug. 13, 2011 Frank T. Carpenter Jr., 94, died Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, at his home known as Rockledge Farm, Paola. The son of Frank T. and Thurza Carpenter, he was born Nov. 22, 1916, in Kansas City, Mo. During World War II, having been classified 4F, [...]
Nine members of Osawatomie Boy Scout Troop 106 left for Bissett, Manitoba, Canada on June 20 for a 6-day, 5-night canoe trip on the lakes of Manitoba, Canada. Those members were Jerrod Bechtel, Jasten Bechtel, Chance Jolly, Tanner Schwalm, Branden Pace-Guilfoyle, Anita Pace, Paul Bechtel, Cindy Schwalm and Galen Critchfield. During the two-day trip to [...]
I had the pleasure to spend a few minutes talking with new city manager Don Cawby Monday afternoon. Instantly I could see one of the reasons the city council liked him. He seems to be a positive man with a lot of knowledge about management. But more important, he knows and likes small towns. Cawby [...]
For his 10th birthday, the only thing my son wanted was to go ride horses. His birthday was on Aug. 2, and we scheduled a ride with a local stable in Hillsdale. Unfortunately, it was way too hot to get the horses out that day, so we rescheduled for a week later. On Tuesday, Aug. [...]
I don’t know about folks sitting around drinking coffee in Linn County locations but discussion of the Christine Staten story about the log cabin – she calls “Old Diehm” – went the rounds at Gary Furnish’s donut shop in Paola. This amazingly solid and impressive structure serves as a reminder to what it took to [...]
Thomas Lynn Youman is an unsung Osawatomie hero who was a pioneer in Kansas’s telecommunications industry. Youman owned the Osawatomie Telephone Company and was a stockholder in the Parker Telephone Company in Parker, Kansas. Youman was an astute business owner and was influential in Kansas’s early communications industry. Telephony: The American Telephone Journal, Volume 79, [...]
