By Doug Carder The city of Osawatomie has reached a settlement with property owners Donald and Patricia Krueger over the disputed construction of a residential garage at the corner of Sixteenth Street and Brown Avenue. The Kruegers filed suit against the city in fall of 2009 after both sides were unable to resolve a building [...]
By Jeff Gulley The second executive director in the Miami County Family YMCA’s six-year existence reported for work Monday. Ashley Dooley Wohlgemuth was recently hired to lead the local YMCA making the move to Osawatomie from Boston. Wohlgemuth is a 10-year veteran of the YMCA, serving as the executive director at the Greater Salt Lake [...]
By Shirley Erickson 100 Years Ago When things get dull around the station and H. J. Crandall, night operator for the Missouri Pacific, at Wagstaff, wants to know just what is going on in different parts of the world, he walks to his room and listens to the messages coming through a peculiar apparatus lying [...]
By Doug Carder Osawatomie sixth grader Thaine Rhoads went on an alphabet safari and bagged a Miami County spelling bee trophy Friday afternoon at Louisburg Middle School. After four rounds, 18 competitors from schools across the county had been narrowed to two: Rhoads and Louisburg sixth grader Dustyn Rizzo. Rhoads and Rizzo battled for another [...]
By Doug Carder House Speaker Pro Tem Jene Vickrey and state Sen. Pat Apple jokingly referred to themselves as the doom and gloom show on Saturday morning. Kidding aside, the two Louisburg Republicans’ knew the message they were about to deliver was sobering, but they didn’t try to sugarcoat it. “We are looking at a [...]
By Jeff Gulley Local grocery owner Mike Moon is spending a lot of time in Topeka these days speaking in favor of a bill that would allow grocery and convenience stores to sell beer, wine and liquor. Moon will speak Wednesday to the Senate State and Federal Affairs Committee about the importance of the bill [...]
By Kevin Gray Before the official Kansas Day activities began Saturday morning at Osawatomie High School, Trojan Elementary and Swenson Early Education Center students had been busy taking a closer look at their state. Floats representing anything related to Kansas from a 150th birthday cake to a buffalo to covered wagons, and, plenty of University [...]
By Shirley Erickson 100 Years Ago While skating on Bull Creek, one mile north of Paola, Sunday, Elbert and Walter Buchanan, aged 18 and 14, respectively, were drowned. They were sons of J. L. Buchanan of that city. With a number of companions the boys were enjoying themselves on the ice near the waterworks. The [...]
Kevin Gray As third graders filed into Kerri Springer’s classroom at Trojan Elementary on Friday, they were met by a familiar, yet not so familiar face. The lady looked like Foster Grandparent Julane Williams, but she said her name was Emma Adair, not Grandma Julane. My parents came to Osawatomie, Adair told the students, because [...]
By Jeff Gulley Osawatomie teacher Cindy Schwarz died last Tuesday evening after being found unresponsive in her office at Trojan Elementary School. Staff members performed CPR until Miami County EMS arrived. Schwarz was then taken to Miami County Medical Center in Paola. News of her death traveled fast in Osawatomie that night. Schwarz, 51, taught [...]