Kevin Gray With cabin fever about to overtake her last Thursday, Diane wanted to go walking. Why not? Just because most of our neighborhood was covered in anywhere from 8 inches to waist deep drifts did not seem like much of a hindrance. Oh, and it was 16 degrees out there but under a very [...]
By Beth Gulley According to the TV commercials I’ve been watching lately, next Monday I should expect my husband to take me out to an expensive restaurant, give me jewelry, a new car, strawberries dipped in chocolate and red roses. All the while, I will be wearing a beautiful dress that doesn’t itch, pinch or [...]
By Doug Carder House Speaker Pro Tem Jene Vickrey and state Sen. Pat Apple jokingly referred to themselves as the doom and gloom show on Saturday morning. Kidding aside, the two Louisburg Republicans’ knew the message they were about to deliver was sobering, but they didn’t try to sugarcoat it. “We are looking at a [...]
By Jeremy Gulley One lesson that I have learned in my life is the power of always leaving a way out. In any situation, it is important to know how to get out quickly if things are to go downhill. One trick is to never back yourself into a corner, so that the ways out [...]
By Jeff Gulley Local grocery owner Mike Moon is spending a lot of time in Topeka these days speaking in favor of a bill that would allow grocery and convenience stores to sell beer, wine and liquor. Moon will speak Wednesday to the Senate State and Federal Affairs Committee about the importance of the bill [...]
By Kevin Gray Before the official Kansas Day activities began Saturday morning at Osawatomie High School, Trojan Elementary and Swenson Early Education Center students had been busy taking a closer look at their state. Floats representing anything related to Kansas from a 150th birthday cake to a buffalo to covered wagons, and, plenty of University [...]
By Shirley Erickson 100 Years Ago While skating on Bull Creek, one mile north of Paola, Sunday, Elbert and Walter Buchanan, aged 18 and 14, respectively, were drowned. They were sons of J. L. Buchanan of that city. With a number of companions the boys were enjoying themselves on the ice near the waterworks. The [...]
Kevin Gray As third graders filed into Kerri Springer’s classroom at Trojan Elementary on Friday, they were met by a familiar, yet not so familiar face. The lady looked like Foster Grandparent Julane Williams, but she said her name was Emma Adair, not Grandma Julane. My parents came to Osawatomie, Adair told the students, because [...]
By Jeremy Gulley Inside all of us lives the child we once were. Many people embrace this child and have a wonderful relationship. I, on the other hand, do not. I try hard to keep my inner child where he belongs, inside, buried, so that the adult I am trying to be can be in [...]
By Kevin Gray History came alive for the 150th birthday of Kansas Friday morning at La Cygne Elementary, as familiar names from Kansas’ past dropped by to see the students. From Josette, a Native American, who lived in Kansas in 1841 to football great Barry Sanders and so many others in between like John Brown, [...]