By Kevin Gray Donna Eichorn did not know what to make of the call from the Osawatomie police Wednesday evening, when she was told there had been a slight disturbance but nothing serious at her house. Eichorn, who was busy filling orders in her shop, Donna and Viola’s Shirts, said she was told that police [...]
By Doug Carder A $1.25 million street improvement project and preparing the grant application for the second phase of the public library renovation headline the list of construction projects on City Manager Bret Glendening’s to-do list in 2011. The city’s major street improvement project will overhaul Brown Avenue from 14th to 18th streets, Pacific Avenue [...]
By Shirley Erickson 100 Years Ago “The strike is settled!’ “Didn’t I tell you so!” “Have you heard about the strike?” “That is certainly one good Christmas gift, eh Bo!” Such were the exclamations that greeted people on the street Tuesday morning. The rumor of the settlement between the striking machinists and allied crafts was [...]
By Kevin Gray At her 102nd birthday celebration Sunday after services at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Ruth Wrench of Osawatomie greeted family, friends, and joked about this being her second childhood. She was even high-fiving with some of the children, like Alexis Hinton of Olathe, after services. Osawatomie kindergarten teacher Marilyn Cook said Grandma Ruth [...]
Kevin Gray Former Osawatomie resident, Alicia Arbaje, has been chosen one of Baltimore, Maryland’s, ten best doctors by the Baltimore Sun’s Sun Magazine. In the piece by writer, Jill Rosen, titled, “Generation RX: Driven, brilliant and not even 40, these 10 doctors are the future of local medicine,” Dr. Arbaje, a geriatrician at John Hopkins [...]
By Jeff Gulley Nearly a year to the day since the Osawatomie City Council voted to opt out of the union, the council refused to hear more discussion on the issue. Council member John Farley asked to add a resolution to the agenda Thursday night for the city to opt back into the Public Employer-Employee [...]
By Kevin Gray Although the heat was on, visitors and performers at the Old Stone Church Vespers Service Saturday evening felt what it must have been like to worship at the first Christmas time service there in 1861. As the winds howled, snow swirled around on the street, and one frozen soul repeatedly rang the [...]
100 Years Ago There has been a lot of stealing from freight cars at this place this winter. The special agents of the company have been watching and laying traps for the thieves, but they have not laid any of them by the heels yet. A son of Roll Kelly was hunting on the north [...]
