By Kevin Gray As the school year, once again, kicks into high gear and families prepare for school functions, games of one sort or another, especially the Friday Night Lights variety, keep in mind how fun educational pursuits can be taken in doable weekend day trips. One such outing could be to the Kansas Historical [...]
By Jeff Gulley Mark your calendar now, Family Fun Night is coming again to the Miami County Family YMCA. The annual event is a fundraiser for the campaign to assist families and individuals with membership and program costs. This year’s lineup of events includes kid’s games, face paining, minute to win it game show and [...]
By Jeff Gulley For the second time this year, accusations of misuse of public funds have been levied against the city of Osawatomie. Last week recreation director Ron Maring was arrested for allegedly taking cash advances on a recreation commission credit card. That came after the arrest in July of former police officer Jason Hudson [...]
By Jeff Gulley Following his arrest last Wednesday morning on two felony counts of theft and misuse of public funds, the Osawatomie Recreation Commission accepted the resignation of long-time director Ron Maring effective Oct. 31. The commission began its meeting with a 30-minute executive session and when it opened the meeting to the public, members [...]
By Kevin Gray Elementary, middle school and high school students, as well as their parents and teachers, hoisted and spread landscaping mulch, swept the playgrounds, painted the colorful four-squares and washed windows at both Trojan Elementary and Swenson Early Childhood Education Center last Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. In the first Back to School Clean Up [...]
By Jeff Gulley Osawatomie football players will be better protected when the season starts thanks to the purchase of 40 new football helmets. The USD 367 Board of Education voted in favor of purchasing 40 new Riddell helmets at its August meeting Wednesday night. Superintendent Gary French told the board that 10 new Rawlings helmets [...]
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, [...]