By Doug Carder The award-winning short film “Change for a Dollar” will be shown from 1 to 3 p.m. Sept. 26 at City Auditorium, 425 Main St. The film will be screened every half hour, and the public is invited to attend this free event. Shot in one day at various locations in Osawatomie last [...]
By Doug Carder Music, games and a host of activities await participants in the YMCA’s Family Fun Night on Sept. 25. 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 [...]
By Doug Carder Final touches are being put on the first phase of the Osawatomie Public Library’s renovation this week as the staff prepares to reopen the doors Monday. Entryways have been widened and a censor-activated front door will slide open for the public next week. Patrons also will notice a quiet reading area, a [...]
By Doug Carder Nan Bewley was using a fine-edged brush to paint a mural of a monastery in southern Italy on the wall next to the Miami County Medical Center Rehabilitation’s front door Sunday morning. The rural Osawatomie resident used a broader brush to paint most of the other buildings in the 500 block of [...]
By Doug Carder Grady Atwater is relieved that John Brown made the list of 24 finalists for the Kansas Sampler Foundation’s 8 Wonders of Kansas People contest. Atwater, the city’s tourism director, knows getting Brown selected as one of the top eight people in Kansas history is going to be a challenge. He is asking [...]
Osawatomie will celebrate the centennial anniversary of John Brown Memorial State Park Sept. 18-19 during the community’s annual Freedom Festival. The two-day festival will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days at the park, Main and 10th streets. The festival will include an arts and crafts fair, frontier artisans, food vendors and [...]
U.S. Civil War re-enactors Mary Beth Menold and Matt Walker are forming a union that no confederate can do apart on Sept 18. The couple will be married following the Battle of Osawatomie reenactment during Freedom Festival. The nuptials will take place in the gazebo near Adair cabin in John Brown Memorial Park. And Freedom [...]
Osawatomie Elks Lodge No. 921 will host a gun and knife show the weekend of Sept. 18-19 at City Auditorium, 425 Main St. The show will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 18 and 9 a.m. to noon on Sept. 19. The event will coincide with the community’s annual Freedom Festival that [...]
Engineers who are in the midst of certifying Osawatomie’s levee system will talk with city council members Thursday night about that process and the city’s proposed storm water utility that would help pay for it. Osawatomie voters will decide the fate of the proposed utility which would generate funds to help pay for the levee [...]
Boyd Cole, Aaron Manes, Thaid Timblin and Jared Moulthrop enjoyed a healthy snack before heading out to the playground to work off a little steam before they cracked the books. The four boys were enjoying a warm late summer afternoon on the playground as part of the Miami County Family YMCA’s after school program at [...]