Sign-up dates for flag football, tackle football and outdoor soccer is just around the corner. There is a new division this year in flag football. A league will be formed for first and second grade kids along with third and fourth graders. Tackle football is again being offered for fifth and sixth graders. Soccer has [...]
By Christine Staton The following story, a slice of Miami and Linn County history, came from Christine Staten, formerly of Paola and currently a resident of Linn County. She lives south of Parker. Using a Native American story-telling technique, this one about a tree, she found an effective way to tell the story, via the [...]
By Beth Waddle Thursday night’s storm elicited chuckles from those gathered for the Osawatomie City Council work session and meeting as the overhead lights flickered amid discussion of the future of the city’s electrical service. Donald Gruenemeyer and DeAnn Dotson of Sawvel and Associates Inc. were on hand to deliver their report on the Electric [...]
By Jeff Gulley The city of Osawatomie will offer two of its recreation facilities to Osawatomie property owners and residents free of charge for the next two Sundays. This Sunday from noon to 6 p.m., the Osawatomie Golf Course will offer free green fees and range balls. Cart rental is extra. On Aug. 14, the [...]
By Kevin Gray When Bonnie Wendt of rural Osawatomie first heard the song, “You Are My Sunshine,” she was about 3 years old. Before long, she played this song on the piano. Her mother, Wendt said, had a beautiful voice and used to sing. “My mother was a French woman and my father an [...]
This summer, my entire way of looking at the world is shifting. I’m studying Spanish. The course I’m taking through Johnson County Community College is intense and leaves little room for thinking about anything else, whether in Spanish or English. The issue is, because I studied German when I was in college, my brain is [...]
Little did I realize when I arrived at Philmont Scout Ranch in 1967, but just a few short miles away in Cimarron, N.M., stood a spirited hotel. Not exactly like the Stanley Hotel used in The Shining, but haunted, very haunted “they say” in its own way. Our Gray Lines (the actual company name) bus [...]
“Lollipop, lollipop, oh lolly, lolly, hey why did you turn that off?” Asher demanded as we entered the Marais des Cygnes Massacre Historical Site. “I turned it off because the sign reads to be respectful,” I told him. Like the Alamo, the Marais des Cygnes Massacre site is a place where people actually died. Unlike [...]
By Beth Gulley Frequently in my life, I am mistaken. As I pulled on to 169 highway to take my second trip on my summer assassination vacation tour, I mistakenly turned towards Louisburg instead of Osawatomie. Instead of getting upset, I chuckled to myself, and turned around. I chose the Adair Cabin and John Brown [...]
By Jeff Gulley After a win in Ottawa last weekend, the Osawatomie Raiders American Legion baseball team went undefeated to win the Baxter Springs tournament at the Field of Dreams. The Raiders dominated the Blacksocks Sunday afternoon 18-3 in the championship game. With 10 runs in the first inning, Osawatomie put the game away early [...]