By Kevin Gray As another Christmas approaches and “a wrap” placed on another semester, I can’t help but take a few moments for reflection before considering the question, “What do I want for Christmas?” I can’t believe how fast this year went. Gone just like that! Christmas will be the same, too. Kind of like [...]
By Jeremy Gulley What does it take to be a friend? Sometimes in life, our past experiences allow us to better understand people if we allow ourselves to open up and connect. This week, I was taught a lesson on understanding and friendship. Three years ago my family adopted Daisy, a black Great Dane who [...]
By Shirley Erickson 100 Years Ago “The strike is settled!’ “Didn’t I tell you so!” “Have you heard about the strike?” “That is certainly one good Christmas gift, eh Bo!” Such were the exclamations that greeted people on the street Tuesday morning. The rumor of the settlement between the striking machinists and allied crafts was [...]
By Kevin Gray At her 102nd birthday celebration Sunday after services at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Ruth Wrench of Osawatomie greeted family, friends, and joked about this being her second childhood. She was even high-fiving with some of the children, like Alexis Hinton of Olathe, after services. Osawatomie kindergarten teacher Marilyn Cook said Grandma Ruth [...]
By Jeremy Gulley “How do you feel now?” the nurse asked. My dad’s glazed-over stare told everyone in the room that the valium he was given to help with his dizziness was working, and working well. “What?” he replied. “Are you feeling okay?” the nurse asked again. “Feeling great” he replied, “really, really good.” We [...]
Kevin Gray Little did I once realize or suspect what a mark Dr. Alicia Arbaje would make in the field of medicine someday. But, then, that was about 20 years ago, and I was focused on the present time and a new student I was told had been jumped a grade or two. When Alicia [...]
Kevin Gray Former Osawatomie resident, Alicia Arbaje, has been chosen one of Baltimore, Maryland’s, ten best doctors by the Baltimore Sun’s Sun Magazine. In the piece by writer, Jill Rosen, titled, “Generation RX: Driven, brilliant and not even 40, these 10 doctors are the future of local medicine,” Dr. Arbaje, a geriatrician at John Hopkins [...]
By Jeff Gulley Nearly a year to the day since the Osawatomie City Council voted to opt out of the union, the council refused to hear more discussion on the issue. Council member John Farley asked to add a resolution to the agenda Thursday night for the city to opt back into the Public Employer-Employee [...]
By Kevin Gray Although the heat was on, visitors and performers at the Old Stone Church Vespers Service Saturday evening felt what it must have been like to worship at the first Christmas time service there in 1861. As the winds howled, snow swirled around on the street, and one frozen soul repeatedly rang the [...]
100 Years Ago There has been a lot of stealing from freight cars at this place this winter. The special agents of the company have been watching and laying traps for the thieves, but they have not laid any of them by the heels yet. A son of Roll Kelly was hunting on the north [...]