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A polar vortex did more than take the Midwest’s breath away in mid-February.
Doug Carder
News Editor
The Miami County Health Department has received 3,600 Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses and administered more than 3,000 of them.
Doug Carder
News Editor
OSAWATOMIE — Not even a pandemic could stop four mental health technician graduates at Osawatomie State Hospital and three at the satellite program at Larned State Hospital.
Area residents who did not have an opportunity to attend legislative coffees in Louisburg and Osawatomie earlier this month will have two more opportunities to hear from their state legislators.
Doug Carder
News Editor
OSAWATOMIE — A request that first surfaced last fall has come home to roost.
Doug Carder
News Editor
The man who was found dead in a Union Pacific Railroad boxcar Tuesday, Feb. 23, in rural Miami County has been identified as a 24-year-old Louisiana man.
Doug Carder
News Editor
OSAWATOMIE — A local educator has been selected to be the Osawatomie Public Library’s new director.
Doug Carder
News Editor
The initial investigation into the death of an unidentified man who was found on a Union Pacific train in Miami County indicates he was killed by the closing door of the boxcar he was riding in.
Doug Carder
News Editor
Obituaries
February 17 1950 - February 28 2021
Wayne H. LaGalle, age 88, of Ottawa, Kansas, passed away, Sunday, February 28, 2021, at Overland Park, Kansas.
Brenda Sue (Spain) Lickteig, 61, passed away peacefully at Life Care Center of Osawatomie into her heavenly home on February 17, 2021, after battling a long illness.
Voices
Osawatomie and John Brown are linked in history, and visitors have been coming to Osawatomie due to the community’s John Brown-related history literally since the mid-19th century.
I am thinking about Black History Month and its relevance to those of us who aren’t Black.
Letter to the Editor
Sports
LOUISBURG — Brooklyn Diederch, Alyse Moore, Madilyn Melton and Megan Foote all scored as the Louisburg Lady Cats celebrated senior night with a victory over the rival Paola Lady Panthers.
Gene Morris
Sports Editor
LOUISBURG — The Rivalry On K-68 was alive and well as the Paola Panthers went on to the road to face the Louisburg Wildcats on senior night.
Gene Morris
Sports Editor
SALINA — Alec Younggren and Cade Holtzen led the state wrestling tournament with state medals for the Louisburg Wildcats.
Gene Morris
Sports Editor
SALINA — The Paola Lady Panthers placed third in the state wrestling tournament.
Gene Morris
Sports Editor
OSAWATOMIE — Guard Peyton Wendt was the man of the hour for the Osawatomie boys basketball team in the final minute against rival Prairie View.
Gene Morris
Sports Editor
OSAWATOMIE — The Lady Trojans celebrated senior night with a 54-point victory.
Gene Morris
Sports Editor
LUBBOCK, Texas — Junior Samantha Van Hoecke is soaring to new heights for the University of Kansas Jayhawks.
Gene Morris
Sports Editor
LOUISBURG — The Lady Pirates upset the Lady Cats in a showdown with the Frontier League title hanging in the balance.
People
Jan Sanders presided at the Feb. 8 Zoom meeting of Chapter DO, P.E.O, facilitated by Nadine Bailey.
The latest Zoom meeting of Chapter DQ, P.E.O. on Feb. 9 found 14 members gathered for a business meeting.
Thirteen Chapter JB, P.E.O. members met virtually on Feb. 9.
The Happy Go-Getters 4-H Club had its first hybrid meeting held both in person and on Zoom at the same time on Jan. 12 at Richland Township Hall.
The monthly meeting of the Progressive 4-H Club was held Jan. 25, 2021, at 6:30 p.m. at Town Square.
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