By Jeff Gulley Ken Tyson was one of many helping prepare the Vineyard of Hope’s float in the 2009 John Brown Jamboree parade. Months earlier, Tyson began to drive down from Kansas City to help the small church as they tried to reenergize and grow a youth group. That night at the parade, Tyson saw [...]
By Kevin Gray They didn’t know where it came from, but – like the General Lee, the car from the television show the “Dukes of Hazzard” – the last thing members of Osawatomie’s Silver Bullet Band knew before impact was seeing the under carriage and tires of a small pickup truck flying up and airborne [...]
Target doesn’t open until 8 a.m. There are exactly two Target stores between my home and my work. The only conveniently located Walmart between my work and my home is about a mile from my house. I know all of these seemly random facts because I needed them to not be true last week. I [...]
Preachers, teachers, writers, musicians, artists and anyone one else who deals in ideas have one thing in common: they steal liberally. Some try to make it look like they don’t. Some do it better than others. But whether done well or not, and regardless of any admission; everyone knows that stealing is part of the [...]
Osawatomie’s pioneers battled nature when they were founding Osawatomie during the 1850’s, and Reverend Samuel Adair, John Brown’s brother-in-law, reported on the an infestation of worms that were destroying the corn crop planted by John Brown to help feed his family in a March 26, 1856 letter to John Brown’s father, Owen Brown. “John has [...]
Like most Americans, I will never forget where I was that Tuesday morning in September. I was just finishing the 8 a.m. news on KOFO radio in Ottawa and we switched to an ABC broadcast that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center building in New York City. The events of that day [...]
By Jeff Gulley Thirty-five high school seniors got some much needed help toward college expenses Monday night. At the 12th Annual Frank Elliott Scholarship banquet, $200,000 in local scholarship money was awarded to some very deserving candidates. One-after-another, presenters of scholarships Monday night talked about how tough the selection was this year for Osawatomie High [...]
By Jeff Gulley Bruno, the Osawatomie Police Department’s drug dog, is moving to McPherson. The Osawatomie City Council Thursday night gave City Manager Bret Glendening the go ahead to negotiate the relocation of the drug dog and discontinue the program. Glendening told the council at the April 14 meeting that the officer trained to handle [...]
By Jeremy Gulley At this time of the semester, I remind myself and my students to persevere. The point to getting through is to keep working and remember that, soon, we will wake up and it will be over. But perseverance isn’t always easy. In fact, I argue that perseverance needs practice, or at least [...]