Saturday was not my son’s birthday. It was, however, the night of his birthday party at my parent’s house. In a tradition that dates back to my childhood, our family gathers to eat and give gifts to the birthday boy or girl. It is a great way to celebrate, keep the family in touch, and [...]
By: Callie Benton (Educator, Wife and Mother of 3) I have been cussed at, spit at, yelled at, threatened, and forced into ditch doing the activities that I enjoyed the most. For more than 10 years I have participated in road races ranging from small town 5Ks to those in the World Marathon Majors. I [...]
By MARK MORRIS The Kansas City Star Olathe police today tentatively identified a body found in a remote area as that of a missing Linn County man. A police spokesman reported that officers were dispatched to an area near 151st Street and South Lone Elm Road at 6:10 p.m. Friday after a caller reported finding [...]
Graveside services for Virginia Kehl Byerley, 92, of Parker, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Prairie Home Cemetery, rural La Cygne. Mrs. Byerley died Wednesday in North Point Skilled Nursing Center in Paola. Memorials are to the Parker Library or Parker Heritage Park in care of Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home in Osawatomie.
Michael Edward Rice, son of Clarence Edward and Gabrielle N. Earnest Rice of Greeley, was stillborn Thursday in Ransom Memorial Hospital. Survivors, in addition to his parents, include Jim and Vicky Brownback of Parker. The family will meet with friends from 6 to 7 p.m. Saturday in Dengel and Son Mortuary in Ottawa.
Graveside memorial services for Betty M. Plain of Kansas City, Kan., and her late husband, Donald A. Plain, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Osawatomie Cemetery. Mrs. Plain is the former Betty Ebeck Johnson, who lived in Osawatomie for some time. Her daughter, the late Patricia Johnson Nelson, was a 1958 graduate of Osawatomie [...]
Although they spent hours cooped up on a bus to get to the East Coast, where they lived among well over 40,000 other individuals and had to camp outside in the heat of Virginia, three Osawatomie Boy Scouts recently returned from what they realize was the trip of a lifetime. Brandon Guilfoyle had patches he [...]
Joe VanVlack, a senior at Osawatomie High School, and four other Miami County students attended Kansas Association for Youth Leadership Camp July 26-30 near Junction City. Other Miami County attendees were Mitchell Oberg, Sydney Prothe and Balie Stamps, eighth graders from Paola Middle School, and Mallen Trull, a junior at Paola High School. Middle and [...]
100 Years Ago Subscription papers have been left in every place of business in this city, so that any one desiring to do so, may help contribute to the expense of dedicating John Brown Park. Some of them are being signed up liberally, and some not. If the town had had a chance to get [...]
Writing is a process of trial and error. There is a lot more bad writing in the world than good, that much is for sure. But even good writers have bad days. The trick is knowing what to keep and what to throw back. A major point of success or failure in writing a newspaper [...]