By Kevin Gray As we’ve moved from the season of dumping obscene amounts of money into political advertising none of us wanted to see, why couldn’t our candidates, regardless of party, find ways to raise their campaign awareness in other ways? I continue to grouse about how that money could have been used to help [...]
By Jeff Gulley Osawatomie volleyball players who played with the Slammers volleyball club will now be able to tryout for the new Kansas Krush team. Marsha Adams, one of the founders of the Slammers, said the new Krush organization will be similar to the Slammers with many of the same board members but will have [...]
Ernest Leroy Jones, 94, Osawatomie, died Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010, in Life Care Center of Osawatomie. His funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in the First United Methodist Church in Osawatomie, followed by burial in the Beagle Cemetery with military honors. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 tonight in Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home in [...]
Osawatomie voters again said no to forming a storm water Utility. Charter Ordinance No. 13 failed with 586 no votes to 296 yes. The council tried to establish the storm water utility in December 2008. A protest petition gathered enough signatures to put the proposed utility before voters last year, and it went down to [...]
By Jeff Gulley The numbers are staggering – 1,510 yards of total offense, 818 rushing yards by one team and 505 passing yards by another. And then there was that final score. Spring Hill won the final football game of the season against Osawatomie by a staggering score of 99-72. It was a game where [...]
By Kevin Gray Contract content and what the Osawatomie City Council would like to see in a Chamber of Commerce and city of Osawatomie legal document bounced back and forth during the council’s work session Thursday evening. The big question appeared to be how much money out of $30,000 budgeted for the chamber should go [...]
By Kevin Gray While trains offered their familiar sounds in the background and those “confounded” horseless carriages flew by Osawatomie’s Oakwood Cemetery Saturday evening, individuals and families, who helped build a small community into a city, returned to tell their stories. Hosted by none other than the Reverend Samuel Adair (Grady Atwater), visitors learned more [...]
By Jeff Gulley News of the death of Spring Hill football player Nathan Stiles spread quickly through both communities Friday morning. Students and parents woke up Friday morning to the shocking news, that the young man many of them had prayed for during the Osawatomie/Spring Hill football game died at the hospital. Stiles, a senior [...]
