By Jeff Gulley Osawatomie schools received passing marks in the annual assessment report that was released last week. District wide, all schools met annual yearly progress goals except Trojan Elementary, which failed to reach the mark in special education reading. The district reading goal for 2010-2011 was 86 percent. Osawatomie students scored 88.3 percent. In [...]
The Osawatomie City Council announced Thursday night following an executive session the hiring of Don Cawby as city manager. Cawby’s hiring came after a month-long search that utilized the Kansas League of Municipalities to advertise and screen applicants. The top five were interviewed by the council and given tours of the city two weeks ago. [...]
Last week I visited the St. Philippine Duchesne Memorial Park. One of the signs in the park explained that the artifacts found there were kept at the Swan River Museum in Paola. Because I live just a few blocks from there, I thought I would follow up on last week’s adventure, and go to the [...]
I never know what my Memory To Memoir Workshop will bring me. Last summer, two different women shared tragic family stories. By summer’s end, I left them with a plan, well some direction at least, that they can continue to follow as they research and write. This summer, another woman brought a set of stories [...]
Smith R. Mudge was a railroad engineer whose life had a positive impact on Osawatomie and demonstrates the path many railroad employees took during their careers in the 19th century. Mudge’s railroad career began when he began working for the Lake Erie and Western Railroad as a fireman in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1856 at age [...]
If you are like me, you complicate everything more than necessary. I can take the simplest idea and beat it and mess with it over and over until it is so complicated I don’t recognize it any more. Why can’t I find a simple solution to problems and then be happy? I’m not sure what [...]
EVERYONE is talking about it, but no one is doing anything about it – the weather that is. It was still 98 degrees at 8:45 p.m. Monday when I began to write this column. My eldest son David sent me a road sign sitting in the center of a street in what looks like a [...]
By Shirley Erickson 100 Years Ago Walter Adair and mother were callers in the Cowden home Friday evening. On account of business falling off it became necessary to reduce the crews in preferred service between Kansas City and Council Grove. An order was issued the latter part of last week for the strengthening of every [...]
Henry Lawrence Bachman July 15, 1938 – July 15, 2011 Henry Lawrence Bachman, 73, Coats, Kan., a former Osawatomie resident, died Friday, July 15, 2011, in Pratt Regional Medical Center in Pratt, KS. The son of Phillip and Mary Sharp Bachman, he was born July 15, 1938, in Kansas City, Mo. He was a 1957 [...]
