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Softball Team Gets Regional Win
By Jeff Gulley The Osawatomie softball team advanced to the second round of regional play with a 4-0 win at Prairie View Monday. The Trojans scored runs in each of the first four innings and used some stellar glove work to hold off the Buffalos. Osawatomie scored in the first inning and took a 1-0 [...]
Trojans Stunned In Regionals
By Jeff Gulley It was not supposed to end for Osawatomie on Monday. Playing in the first round of the 4A baseball regional in Spring Hill, the Trojans were thinking about a state tournament bid. Instead they were upset 7-5 by a Prairie View team with only five wins on the season. “Overall we were [...]
Class of 2011
Osawatomie High School said goodbye to 70 seniors Sunday afternoon as the graduation ceremony was held. Seniors waited patiently for all classmates to take their spots during the walk-in . Co-valedictorians , Daniel Dorsett, Sarah Maddox and Kayleigh Shay spoke to the class. Teachers Rod Madden and Mike Schainost were speakers at the baccalaureate service [...]
One Obedient Canine
Daisy, my Great Dane, can make a real mess of a garden in not very much time. My boys and I spent a weekend tilling and planting the garden, and Daisy took about 15 minutes to dig a large hole in the middle of it. So we replanted, she dug again, and I got angry. [...]
Memory To Memoir Workshop
I finished the last century by attending the 1999 Iowa Summer Writing Festival or at least spent a week there to, well … write. More importantly, I went seeking readers and reaction to my scribbling. And came home wanting to do the same thing locally. But first, a story: Four years before, I had taken [...]
Spirituality And Union Soldiers
Sick or wounded Union soldiers largely clung to spiritual solace when they were hospitalized . Reverend Samuel Adair served in the Union Army as a chaplain, and was stationed at Fort Scott, Kansas in October of 1862. He reported in a letter to Bro. Brown on the conditions in the Army hospital at Fort Scott [...]
Genealogy Workshop Set For Saturday in Parker
A genealogy and membership workshop will be conducted Saturday in the Parker Elementary School, 421 N. Center Ave. Hours for the workshop are from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The workshop, which is open to the public, is being sponsored by the Marais des Cygne Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Kansas [...]
Council Approves Contract For Library Phase II Design
By Kevin Gray With only three unfinished business items on the agenda last Wednesday, it seemed the Osawatomie City Council meeting would be quickly over. But this was not the case. The main discussion centered on approving the contract with SFS Architecture Inc. for Phase II addition to the Osawatomie Public Library. Council members simply [...]
Local Man Killed, Passenger Injured In Crash
By Jeff Gulley An Osawatomie man was killed Monday night and a woman is in critical condition following a motorcycle crash Monday evening south of Osawatomie. According to a news release, 28-year-old Dustin Eaks and a female passenger crashed and were ejected from a motorcycle Monday on Old Kansas City Road and West 355th Street. [...]