First Option Bank and its employees raised $5,920 for the Osawatomie Library Project and presented a check on Thursday. Pictured from left are Gregg Lewis, First Option Bank Chairman; Sarah Dorsett, Osawatomie Public Library Board President; Elizabeth Trigg, Osawatomie Public Library Director and Mark Fuchs, First Option bank Osawatomie Branch Manager. The total raised represents [...]
By: Callie Benton (Educator, Wife and Mother of 3) I have been cussed at, spit at, yelled at, threatened, and forced into ditch doing the activities that I enjoyed the most. For more than 10 years I have participated in road races ranging from small town 5Ks to those in the World Marathon Majors. I [...]
By MARK MORRIS The Kansas City Star Olathe police today tentatively identified a body found in a remote area as that of a missing Linn County man. A police spokesman reported that officers were dispatched to an area near 151st Street and South Lone Elm Road at 6:10 p.m. Friday after a caller reported finding [...]
Graveside services for Virginia Kehl Byerley, 92, of Parker, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Prairie Home Cemetery, rural La Cygne. Mrs. Byerley died Wednesday in North Point Skilled Nursing Center in Paola. Memorials are to the Parker Library or Parker Heritage Park in care of Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home in Osawatomie.
Michael Edward Rice, son of Clarence Edward and Gabrielle N. Earnest Rice of Greeley, was stillborn Thursday in Ransom Memorial Hospital. Survivors, in addition to his parents, include Jim and Vicky Brownback of Parker. The family will meet with friends from 6 to 7 p.m. Saturday in Dengel and Son Mortuary in Ottawa.
Graveside memorial services for Betty M. Plain of Kansas City, Kan., and her late husband, Donald A. Plain, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Osawatomie Cemetery. Mrs. Plain is the former Betty Ebeck Johnson, who lived in Osawatomie for some time. Her daughter, the late Patricia Johnson Nelson, was a 1958 graduate of Osawatomie [...]
Although they spent hours cooped up on a bus to get to the East Coast, where they lived among well over 40,000 other individuals and had to camp outside in the heat of Virginia, three Osawatomie Boy Scouts recently returned from what they realize was the trip of a lifetime. Brandon Guilfoyle had patches he [...]
Joe VanVlack, a senior at Osawatomie High School, and four other Miami County students attended Kansas Association for Youth Leadership Camp July 26-30 near Junction City. Other Miami County attendees were Mitchell Oberg, Sydney Prothe and Balie Stamps, eighth graders from Paola Middle School, and Mallen Trull, a junior at Paola High School. Middle and [...]
