By Jeff Gulley Superintendent Gary French told the USD 367 Board of Education Wednesday night that a decline in enrollment numbers will lead to trimming the budget. “It was one of the worst times probably in Osawatomie financial history between the last board meeting and Sept. 20,” French said. “We lost 15 students and the [...]
By Jeff Gulley Superintendent Gary French told the USD 367 Board of Education Wednesday night that a decline in enrollment numbers will lead to trimming the budget. “It was one of the worst times probably in Osawatomie financial history between the last board meeting and Sept. 20,” French said. “We lost 15 students and the [...]
By Jeff Gulley The Osawatomie varsity volleyball team went 2-1 in pool play at West Franklin Saturday but the winning record was not good enough to get them into bracket play. Osawatomie beat Central Heights and Royal Valley but lost to Burlingame in Saturday’s tournament. “I thought at times we played really well but at [...]
By Jeff Gulley In a game that included 22 penalties for 216 yards, Osawatomie’s only highlight was a 79-yard touchdown run by Brandon Oakes. Wellsville made its case for a Pioneer League title beating Osawatomie 46-8 to remain undefeated. Both teams battled to a scoreless first quarter. Wellsville got the first break of the game [...]
By Jeff Gulley Doug Kueser paced the Osawatomie varsity cross country runners Thursday and the boys’ team won the Prairie View Ramsey Invitational. Kueser ran an 18:56 and finished fourth in the meet and was followed close behind by Grant Maimer who came in eighth place with a time of 19:20. Nick Lewis was 10th [...]
The Miami County Quilt Guild “Drag and Brag” Quilt Show had wonderful weather for this year’s event. Pat Noel, chairman of the guild, said Monday that attendance was estimated at about 500 people, which is better than last year’s attendance. About 200 articles were entered in the show, with about 150 of those being full-size [...]
By Jeff Gulley The Osawatomie Food Pantry is moving and will be in service at the new locating in October. Coordinator Bill Butler said the Food Pantry will still be open at the First United Methodist Church today (Sept. 28) but items will be moved to the new location at 811 Sixth Street and open [...]
By Jeff Gulley Volunteers will be out Saturday fixing up selected houses for the 18th annual Christmas in October event. Those working this year should meet at the Osawatomie High School cafeteria at 7:30 a.m. Last year more than 75 people participated in the event that helps Osawatomie homeowners who need home repairs like painting, [...]
By Jeff Gulley When Osawatomie resident Will Cutburth was sent to Camp Carroll in South Korea, he had no idea that a decade-long friendship would form and that friends would bring a Korean visitor to Osawatomie. Joo-Young Oh arrived in Osawatomie last week, his first time visiting the United States to stay with his friend [...]
By Jeff Gulley This is the final week for twice-weekly trash service as Osawatomie residents move to city-wide recycling starting Monday. L&K Services dropped off blue recycling containers to residents last week and starting Monday, recycling will be picked up on Mondays and Tuesday and trash service will be on Thursday and Friday. Bryce Smith, [...]