I never know what my Memory To Memoir Workshop will bring me. Last summer, two different women shared tragic family stories. By summer’s end, I left them with a plan, well some direction at least, that they can continue to follow as they research and write. This summer, another woman brought a set of stories [...]
Smith R. Mudge was a railroad engineer whose life had a positive impact on Osawatomie and demonstrates the path many railroad employees took during their careers in the 19th century. Mudge’s railroad career began when he began working for the Lake Erie and Western Railroad as a fireman in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1856 at age [...]
If you are like me, you complicate everything more than necessary. I can take the simplest idea and beat it and mess with it over and over until it is so complicated I don’t recognize it any more. Why can’t I find a simple solution to problems and then be happy? I’m not sure what [...]
EVERYONE is talking about it, but no one is doing anything about it – the weather that is. It was still 98 degrees at 8:45 p.m. Monday when I began to write this column. My eldest son David sent me a road sign sitting in the center of a street in what looks like a [...]
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 [...]
Henry Lawrence Bachman July 15, 1938 – July 15, 2011 Henry Lawrence Bachman, 73, Coats, Kan., a former Osawatomie resident, died Friday, July 15, 2011, in Pratt Regional Medical Center in Pratt, KS. The son of Phillip and Mary Sharp Bachman, he was born July 15, 1938, in Kansas City, Mo. He was a 1957 [...]
Sign-up dates for flag football, tackle football and outdoor soccer is just around the corner. There is a new division this year in flag football. A league will be formed for first and second grade kids along with third and fourth graders. Tackle football is again being offered for fifth and sixth graders. Soccer has [...]
By Christine Staton The following story, a slice of Miami and Linn County history, came from Christine Staten, formerly of Paola and currently a resident of Linn County. She lives south of Parker. Using a Native American story-telling technique, this one about a tree, she found an effective way to tell the story, via the [...]
By Beth Waddle Thursday night’s storm elicited chuckles from those gathered for the Osawatomie City Council work session and meeting as the overhead lights flickered amid discussion of the future of the city’s electrical service. Donald Gruenemeyer and DeAnn Dotson of Sawvel and Associates Inc. were on hand to deliver their report on the Electric [...]
By Jeff Gulley The city of Osawatomie will offer two of its recreation facilities to Osawatomie property owners and residents free of charge for the next two Sundays. This Sunday from noon to 6 p.m., the Osawatomie Golf Course will offer free green fees and range balls. Cart rental is extra. On Aug. 14, the [...]