By Jeff Gulley The city of Osawatomie wastewater treatment plant will get a $25,000 upgrade after the council approved the purchase of a new automated control system. Interim city manager Don Jordan told the council Thursday night that the plant’s decanters were replaced recently but one is not functioning properly. Jordan said the current system [...]
By Shirley Erickson 100 Years Ago The school board at its regular meeting in the superintendent’s office Monday evening installed its new members and organized for business for the approaching year of school. T.H. Dyer and Abe White are the newly installed members and R.A. Chenoweth elected by the board to fill the vacancy caused [...]
By Kevin Gray Kansas adjusted in 1857 to an unsettled peace following the bloody events of 1856, including the sacking of Lawrence and Osawatomie, the Pottawatomie Massacre near Lane, the Battle of Black Jack near Baldwin, the Battle of Franklin near Lawrence and the Battle of Osawatomie, Actually, the bloodshed on the Kansas-Missouri border would [...]
Frank T. Carpenter Jr. Nov. 22, 1916 – Aug. 13, 2011 Frank T. Carpenter Jr., 94, died Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, at his home known as Rockledge Farm, Paola. The son of Frank T. and Thurza Carpenter, he was born Nov. 22, 1916, in Kansas City, Mo. During World War II, having been classified 4F, [...]
Nine members of Osawatomie Boy Scout Troop 106 left for Bissett, Manitoba, Canada on June 20 for a 6-day, 5-night canoe trip on the lakes of Manitoba, Canada. Those members were Jerrod Bechtel, Jasten Bechtel, Chance Jolly, Tanner Schwalm, Branden Pace-Guilfoyle, Anita Pace, Paul Bechtel, Cindy Schwalm and Galen Critchfield. During the two-day trip to [...]
By Jeff Gulley Osawatomie schools received passing marks in the annual assessment report that was released last week. District wide, all schools met annual yearly progress goals except Trojan Elementary, which failed to reach the mark in special education reading. The district reading goal for 2010-2011 was 86 percent. Osawatomie students scored 88.3 percent. In [...]
The Osawatomie City Council announced Thursday night following an executive session the hiring of Don Cawby as city manager. Cawby’s hiring came after a month-long search that utilized the Kansas League of Municipalities to advertise and screen applicants. The top five were interviewed by the council and given tours of the city two weeks ago. [...]
By Shirley Erickson 100 Years Ago Walter Adair and mother were callers in the Cowden home Friday evening. On account of business falling off it became necessary to reduce the crews in preferred service between Kansas City and Council Grove. An order was issued the latter part of last week for the strengthening of every [...]
