OHS Students Perform ‘Leader of the Pack’

By Jeff Gulley Makayla Pope scored eight points in the first quarter and Mariah Guilfoyle added six as the Osawatomie Middle School eighth-grade girls’ basketball team pulled away early and beat Central Heights 37-10 Thursday night. The Trojans outs cored Central Heights 17-2 in the first quarter and the Vikings could not muster a comeback. [...]

By Jeff Gulley Two residents of Life Care Center of Osawatomie are celebrating milestones in November. Nellie McCoy turned 100 years old on Nov. 17 and David Sweazer will turn 100 on Nov. 27. McCoy grew up in Miami County and has lived most of her life in Paola. She remembered attending a one-room school [...]
By Jeremy Gulley We should be thankful for the good things in our lives every day, not just on Thanksgiving. Though a special day to remember what is most important to us can be wonderful, thankfulness should last all year. Often, however, finding something to be thankful for is difficult. That is the lesson that [...]
By Jeff Gulley With a state championship, an undefeated season and the mantle of team leader on his plate, one thing Osawatomie senior Zach Grimes won’t have to worry about is next year. Grimes inked a letter of intent to wrestle at Fort Hays State University next season. “It was really an easy decision,” Grimes [...]

By Jeff Gulley The seventh-grade Trojan girls’ basketball team scored 13 points in the fourth quarter against Central Heights to earn their first win of the season. Osawatomie topped the Vikings 25-12 Thursday. It was the highest scoring game of the season for the seventh-graders. In the first quarter, Meagan Roth and Kelcey Wendt each [...]
By Shirley Erickson 100 Years Ago Joseph Nicely, Frank Wilson, R. B. Hanson. H. H. Reed, C. S. Biby, W. E. Murphy and several others went to Kansas City, Kan., yesterday to stage the night’s work in the Scottish Rite Temple in that city. William Bixby is taking the 32 degrees of Scottish Rite Masonry [...]
By Jeff Gulley The Osawatomie Library has pushed back the application for a Community Block Development Grant to next fall. Osawatomie librarian Elizabeth Trigg said timing constraints led to the delay on the grant, which would make it possible to move forward with phase two of the renovations project. While having to delay the implementation [...]
By Jeff Gulley With budget uncertainty looming again, the USD 367 Board of Education spent time during Thursday’s meeting looking toward future capital improvement needs and the costs. The board crossed one item off a list of proposed four-year capital projects by voting to accept a bid of $16,290 to fix roofing areas over three [...]