Osawatomie News

With summer break well under way, the Osawatomie USD 367 Board of Education met Thursday morning to give final approval to major projects, review the district's cash balance history and classified employees work agreements, and approve end-of-year purchases.

Osawatomie maintenance crews will have things a little easier this summer, thanks to the help of young workers from a state labor program.

The Fourth of July falls on Saturday, which means many businesses are closed that day,A and some will close early Friday in the observance of the holiday.

The first few days of July will bring fire and explosions for Osawatomie, as the city and Life Care Center put on community fireworks displays.

Osawatomie's citizens and their guests gathered to dedicate the Trail of Death Monument at the Land Office at 222 Sixth St.

A Louisburg student was among more than 600 students at Emporia State University to be named to the schoola s 2009 spring semester honor roll.

A vocational welding program that has taught job skills to inmates at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility for 40 years is ending because of the state's budget problems.

The Model A Tudor's 47-mph cruising speed wouldn't impress NASCAR fans, but Russ Richards' 1929 classic turned the heads of vintage-car enthusiasts Saturday morning during the John Brown JamboreeA car show.

Shandra Spigno pushed a baby stroller in the rain with two young girls, clad in rain suits, following on her heels Saturday in John Brown Memorial Park.

Forty-nine babies and their proud parents packed Osawatomie High Schoola s auditorium for the annual John Brown Jamboree baby contest Saturday.

Dive crews found the body of a 59-year-old Garnett man inside a truck submerged in the Marais des Cygnes River on Thursday morning after receiving reports of the vehicle crashing into the water along U.S. Highway 169 just north of Osawatomie.

It was graduation day Sunday in Paola for 46 adults of varying ages who all put in the work and dedication required to earn their GEDs.

A sea of people in purple and white T-shirts filled the Paola High School track Friday night through Saturday morning as part of the 25th annual Miami County Relay for Life.

OSAWATOMIE, Kan. a ' The driver of a pickup truck was killed early Thursday morning when he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a river.

A dive team has located the body of a man in his 70s in the Marais de Cygne River after a car crashed into the water Thursday morning.

Several changes were approved at the Osawatomie USD 367 Board of Education meeting last week.A Students attending Osawatomie Middle School no longer will have modified block scheduling, as they have had for the past five years.

Dive crews found a body and a truck submerged in the Marais des Cygnes River after receiving reports of the vehicle crashing into the water along U.S. Highway 169 just north of Osawatomie on Thursday morning.

If he was short of breath, it didn't show when Tom Wilson strode into the Kansas Social and Rehabilitation Services office along Brown Avenue on Friday afternoon.

The Osawatomie City Council unanimously consented to a public fireworks display July 4 at Lynn Dickey Stadium, but the governing body's approval of fireworks stands inside city limits met with some trepidation.

Damaging winds gusting about 100 mph tore through Miami County on Monday night, leaving residents to pick up the pieces Tuesday morning.