By Jeff Gulley Osawatomie fell to Iola 49-43 to start the basketball season Friday night. The Trojans fell behind in the first quarter and could not catch the home team from Iola, which joined the Pioneer League this season. Osawatomie shot just 43 percent from the field and 26 percent from the three-point line in [...]
By Jeff Gulley The Osawatomie Middle School eighth grade basketball team moved a step closer to the league championship with a 27-22 win over Anderson County Monday night. The Trojans beat the Bulldogs for the third time this year and will play in the tournament championship Thursday night. Ryann Fisher scored seven points in the [...]
By Kevin Gray With hot chocolate in hand, and her granddaughter close by, Dorothy Spencer of Osawatomie spoke fondly of growing up in the country. Spencer had anticipated 7 p.m. Saturday, when the John Brown Historical Cabin and Museum would celebrate Christmas at the Adair Cabin. Trojan fifth grader Brandi Duncan had already grabbed a [...]
By Kevin Gray When the middle part of the day arrives at Osawatomie Middle School, students can be found in the gym shooting baskets or playing an assortment of fun games. Or students can chose to spend their time playing educational games in the computer labs. Others might choose to stay in their assigned classrooms [...]
By Kevin Gray Not far from where the Rev. Samuel Adair and his wife Florella once hid slaves in their cabin, a safe house on the Underground Railroad, history has come full circle at Osawatomie High School. An African-American woman, who came to Osawatomie at the age of 4 just two years after President Theodore [...]
By Kevin Gray By 7:30 a.m. Sunday as many as 100 people were already lined up in front of Osawatomie High School to buy tickets to see and listen to President Barack Obama address the city and the nation about the economy on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011 The previous evening, while many from Osawatomie visited [...]
By Kevin Gray As the Osawatomie City Auditorium continued a busy pace Saturday morning at the Rotary Club’s Pancake Feed to raise scholarship money for Osawatomie youth, one question came up every few minutes: “Have you heard the President’s coming to town?” By Friday evening, the city of Osawatomie had the news posted on the [...]
By Jeff Gulley It’s too early to tell whether the speech Tuesday by President Barak Obama in Osawatomie will stand the test of time like that of Theodore Roosevelt more than 100 years ago, but for one day, the town was the center of the political stage. The President spoke to nearly 1,000 people at [...]