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Osawatomie Fire Fighters Battle Two Blazes On Consecutive Nights
By Jeff Gulley Two fires in two nights kept the Osawatomie Fire Department busy for Thanksgiving. The fire department was first called to a structure fire at 106 Brown Ave. Thursday night at 10:23 p.m. According to the fire report, a resident at the property reported having electrical problems and then smelling smoke. When the [...]
Local Youth On A Mission For Toys
By Jeff Gulley Ashton Spears is asking for your help. The 11-year-old, for the second year in a row, is making it his mission to provide toys to the Osawatomie Community Food Pantry to be given away to kids who need them. “I just want to make sure that all kids get a toy for [...]
Drama Class Has 20-Year Tradition
By Jeff Gulley It’s less than a week until opening night and for Lori French, trying to get a few free minutes is almost impossible. As practice is about to begin, the questions come at her rapidly but after 20 years, French has the answers. When the Osawatomie Middle School drama class presents “Hound of [...]
Down Through The Years – Dec 1 2010
Down Through The Years By Shirley Erickson 100 Years Ago Bill Dunaway and Joe Johnson started hunting Monday afternoon. Mind you, started. They took a rig from Chamberlain’s barn and drove out west. Just after they crossed the railroad tracks, Bill dropped the reins, to tell Joe why Hodges wasn’t elected, or something like that, [...]
I got this
By Jeremy Gulley We didn’t want him to go with us. Not because we don’t like him, but the idea of taking a three year old, who has zero experience hiking and can be . . . um . . . difficult, on a rocky, hilly, sometimes dangerous hike didn’t seem like a good idea. [...]
Local Nurse Honored With State Award
By Jeff Gulley LuElla Weems, the evening charge nurse at Vintage Park of Osawatomie, was recently honored by the Kansas Centers for Assisted Living (KCAL) with the Nurse of the Year award. “I was quite surprised when Shonna (Looney) told me about the award and quite pleased,” she said. The award was presented earlier this [...]
Tessering to Christmas
By Beth Gulley With only a few weeks to go in the semester, we are entering the time of year when I wish Madeline L’Engle’s idea of the tesseract would apply to time in our space. For those of you who have not read A Wrinkle in Time, L’Engle uses the idea of the tesseract [...]
Christmas Decorating
Kevin Gray It was a nice Thanksgiving as always. This year, we drove to Atchison on Wednesday to bring Diane’s parents back to Paola for the night and to eat turkey and the fixings at our place the next day. The drive up and back also gave me a chance to say hi to my [...]