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PAOLA – All local city and county races have at least one candidate as the election filing deadline is one week away.
Doug Carder
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Miami County Sheriff’s Office deputies established a perimeter and notified residents while searching for a burglary suspect east of Spring Hill on the afternoon of Sunday, May 22, but the man has not yet been apprehended.
Brian McCauley
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County residents who did not attend the Miami County Comprehensive Plan open house May 17 in Paola have an opportunity to review the plan online.
Doug Carder
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LOUISBURG – Broadmoor Elementary’s Parade of Hearts is entering its final weekend.
Doug Carder
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OSAWATOMIE – District patrons will have an opportunity next week to meet each of the three candidates for USD 367 superintendent.
Doug Carder
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PAOLA — Current Miami County child care providers are invited to have dinner and an open conversation about their needs and challenges during a “Miami County Child Care Provider Listening Session” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 24, at the Paola Middle School cafeteria.
Doug Carder
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PAOLA — DeAnna Morgan and her Paola High School art students are on cloud nine after winning the annual league art competition in Bonner Springs and upsetting the multi-year-winning powerhouse Spring Hill art department by almost 30 points.
Brian McCauley
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PAOLA — First Option Bank has facilitated the giving of more than $1.2 million this year through various scholarships and charitable foundations managed by the bank.
Brian McCauley
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We are entering the season for home canning!
Osawatomie’s John Brown Memorial Park was the site of the Battle of Osawatomie on Aug. 30, 1856, where 30-45 Free State guerrilla fighters under the command of John Brown fought John Reid and 200 to 400 pro-slavery militia men.
By the time this arrives at the newsstands, all of the rain talk about the deluge, the Niagara Falls of inches and inches of precipitation will have expired. It won’t be important until the next ruin of rain.
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ATCHISON, Kan. – Dalton Picek and Caden Marcum hit solo home runs to lead the Paola Panthers to a 3-1 victory against Louisburg in the Class 4A regional championship game.
Gene Morris
Sports Editor
SPRING HILL – The Lady Broncos sent aces Maggie McNally and Vanessa Murray to the mound in the Class 5A regional softball tournament.
Gene Morris
Sports Editor
WACO, Texas — Baylor University recently named Moorea Long the Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Gene Morris
Sports Editor
PAOLA — A lot of what she does is not under the bright lights at Panther Stadium or those shining off the hardwood court. Emma Boehm does her best work on the other side of the spotlight. She likes it that way.
Gene Morris
Sports Editor
FORT SCOTT — The Paola Panther junior varsity baseball team put a storybook season together.
Gene Morris
Sports Editor
PAOLA — The Paola Lady Panther softball team split a doubleheader against the rival Louisburg Lady Cats on senior night.
Gene Morris
Sports Editor
PAOLA — Caden Marcum threw a one-hitter, striking out 14, in a 10-0 shutout victory for Paola against rival Louisburg on senior night.
Gene Morris
Sports Editor
TOPEKA – Sabra Brueggen won a medal in the Class 5-1A state swim meet.
Gene Morris
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People
The Miami County Historical Museum held its monthly board meeting at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, at the museum.
Members of the Happy-Go-Getters 4-H Club gathered for their monthly meeting Tuesday, April 12, at Richland Township Hall.
Members of Chapter JB, P.E.O. met at Little Town on April 12.
Jaden Argeropoulos, Gus Cook, Elsie Fleming, Dylan George, Tori Kresch and Nathan Troutman, who are all forensics students at Paola High School, were on hand to perform following Chapter DQ’s 90th birthday luncheon at the Paola Country Club on April 12.
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