By Kevin Gray Not far from where the Rev. Samuel Adair and his wife Florella once hid slaves in their cabin, a safe house on the Underground Railroad, history has come full circle at Osawatomie High School. An African-American woman, who came to Osawatomie at the age of 4 just two years after President Theodore [...]
By Kevin Gray By 7:30 a.m. Sunday as many as 100 people were already lined up in front of Osawatomie High School to buy tickets to see and listen to President Barack Obama address the city and the nation about the economy on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011 The previous evening, while many from Osawatomie visited [...]
By Kevin Gray As the Osawatomie City Auditorium continued a busy pace Saturday morning at the Rotary Club’s Pancake Feed to raise scholarship money for Osawatomie youth, one question came up every few minutes: “Have you heard the President’s coming to town?” By Friday evening, the city of Osawatomie had the news posted on the [...]
By Jeff Gulley It’s too early to tell whether the speech Tuesday by President Barak Obama in Osawatomie will stand the test of time like that of Theodore Roosevelt more than 100 years ago, but for one day, the town was the center of the political stage. The President spoke to nearly 1,000 people at [...]
A long time ago, in a land far away, I went to high school. In fact, I changed schools four times during my high school career, and I also changed countries four times. And no, if you are like me and taking a second look at that word, I did not write counties, I wrote [...]
By Jeff Gulley Brandon Oakes was helped off the field in the final minutes of the Paola-Osawatomie football game Friday night. Oakes turned in one of the gustiest performance of the year running for 158 yards and scoring two touchdowns. Heading into the matchup against Paola Friday night, the Osawatomie Trojans were short on players [...]
By Jeff Gulley After falling to Sante Fe Trail in the opening match of the Central Heights tournament, the Osawatomie Trojans rebounded to beat that same team for the tournament title. In the opening match, Osawatomie fell 25-16, 27-25 to Sante Fe Trail. Tayler Soucie had 13 kills and Tess Newport had 14 assists. The [...]
I knew I would be traveling several times in the next few months, so I went to Target in search of a good book to read on the plane. I wanted something I could relish, not something instructional like the scholarly articles I also planned to read on the plane. Some books are like a [...]
I read this great story on my favorite Web site, onlyfunnystories.com this week. It is a great reminder about how easily children are influenced, and how they always say the wrong thing at the wrong time. A family excitedly bought and moved into their first house. The house sat next to a vacant lot. One [...]
What a new world I found – me the suburban kid – when my parents first brought me to Kansas State College of Pittsburg in 1971. No more colonial influenced red-brick ranches or split levels, no more strip malls and fast-food chain restaurants on every single corner. Something entirely different hit me, the Virginia kid, [...]