By Jeff Gulley With a state championship, an undefeated season and the mantle of team leader on his plate, one thing Osawatomie senior Zach Grimes won’t have to worry about is next year. Grimes inked a letter of intent to wrestle at Fort Hays State University next season. “It was really an easy decision,” Grimes [...]
By Kevin Gray I wasn’t sure last Friday, when I landed in Atlanta for a layover during my flight to Richmond, Va., if the Thanksgiving rush had begun or if this was just extremely busy Hartfield-Jackson International Airport. But I know the folks around Atlanta will be raking or vacuuming and bagging or burning leaves [...]
By Jeff Gulley The seventh-grade Trojan girls’ basketball team scored 13 points in the fourth quarter against Central Heights to earn their first win of the season. Osawatomie topped the Vikings 25-12 Thursday. It was the highest scoring game of the season for the seventh-graders. In the first quarter, Meagan Roth and Kelcey Wendt each [...]
By Jeremy Gulley For the fifth year in a row, my older son Israel, my wife and I ran the Gobbler Grind half marathon in Corporate Woods on Sunday. This tradition has become one of my favorites. Every year we make a list of 13 things we are thankful for and, since the half marathon [...]
By Shirley Erickson 100 Years Ago Joseph Nicely, Frank Wilson, R. B. Hanson. H. H. Reed, C. S. Biby, W. E. Murphy and several others went to Kansas City, Kan., yesterday to stage the night’s work in the Scottish Rite Temple in that city. William Bixby is taking the 32 degrees of Scottish Rite Masonry [...]
By Jeff Gulley The Osawatomie Library has pushed back the application for a Community Block Development Grant to next fall. Osawatomie librarian Elizabeth Trigg said timing constraints led to the delay on the grant, which would make it possible to move forward with phase two of the renovations project. While having to delay the implementation [...]
By Jeff Gulley With budget uncertainty looming again, the USD 367 Board of Education spent time during Thursday’s meeting looking toward future capital improvement needs and the costs. The board crossed one item off a list of proposed four-year capital projects by voting to accept a bid of $16,290 to fix roofing areas over three [...]
By Shirley Erickson 100 Years Ago In spite of the unfavorable circumstances which the Machinists’ here, as well as other points on the Missouri Pacific, have had to contend with for some time past, the Ninth Annual Ball given by that order in Convention Hall, Monday evening, was a decided success. It was eventful in [...]
By Jeff Gulley It was on the golf course that Henry Workman was challenged to do something new. It was four years ago when his golfing partner picked up a ball that had been run over by a mower and asked him what he could do with it. Workman went back to his shop in [...]
By Jeff Gulley The Pioneer League has found a replacement for Jayhawk-Linn beginning in 2012. The Iola Register reported in its Nov. 10 edition that Iola is leaving the Southeast Kansas League and will be joining the Pioneer League beginning with the 2012-2013 season. “We feel real good about it,” Osawatomie principal Doug Chisam said. [...]