By Doug Carder Another Kansas City Marathon will come and go this weekend without Kristen McBride at the starting line. But the Level I teacher at Trojan Elementary School is not going to let a nagging knee injury cloud her dream of running the ultimate race. “I’m going to be there next year, even if [...]
A child care provider training opportunity will be offered in Miami County on Oct. 21. It will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the K-State Research & Extension office at 104 S. Brayman St. in Paola. The title will be “Cultural Influences on Language and Literacy Teaching Practices: Part 2 of 3”. An instructor [...]
By Doug Carder The award-winning short film “Change for a Dollar” made a warm impression on Jessi Beets and her friends during a screening Sunday at City Auditorium. Area residents of all ages turned out to catch the first glimpse of the 10-minute film which was made in Osawatomie in March. The film was shot [...]
By Doug Carder Renovating the Osawatomie city pool would cost up to $2.7 million. But the work could be completed in phases. David Burbach, with Burbach Aquatics Inc. Architects and Engineers, provided a written assessment of the pool’s needs, as well as estimated construction costs of the renovation project, to the Osawatomie City Council at [...]
Music, games and a host of activities await participants in the YMCA’s Family Fun Night on Saturday. Tickets are available now at the Miami County Family YMCA, 300 11th St., and all proceeds go toward the Y’s annual mission campaign to help local families and individuals. Advance tickets are $3 per person and $10 per [...]
By Doug Carder Osawatomie USD 367’s enrollment is down 11 students, but that’s not enough to affect the district’s budget for the 2010-11 school year. The district’s total head count on Monday, when official enrollment was turned into the state, was 1,185 students, down from 1,196 students last school year. The district’s full-time equivalency was [...]
Lewis Case, a Civil War re-enactor from Osawatomie, had an 1841 Mississippi rifle on display during the festival. The rifle got its name because it was issued to U.S. volunteer units from Mississippi that were to fight in the Mexican War (1846-48) including the First Mississippi commanded by Col. Jefferson Davis, the future president of [...]
By Doug Carder The reopening of the Osawatomie Public Library, which was scheduled for Monday, has been pushed back to Oct. 4 because portions of the renovation project have not yet been finished. “There are several things that the contractors have not completed to make the renovation of the library ‘substantially complete,’” said Elizabeth Trigg, [...]
By Doug Carder “Mrs. Hays. Do what you can with what you have where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt. Local historian and columnist Margaret Hays was the recipient of this quotation from Roosevelt, sketched by first-person narrator Joe Wiegland onto a photograph from the president’s famed trip to Osawatomie in 1910 to dedicate John Brown [...]
By Doug Carder “I wore my red shirt today because it’s football day,” kindergartener Caden West told senior football player Joe Van Vlack. “I watch you guys play.” Van Vlack and about a dozen other Osawatomie football players are participating in a mentoring program at Swenson Early Childhood Education Center. Andrea Manes, Swenson principal, said [...]