OSAWATOMIE — The city of Osawatomie on Wednesday, Feb. 17, asked residents and businesses to conserve water over the next 12 hours to preserve supplies while crews worked to unthaw the water plant’s frozen intake line from the Marais des Cygnes River.

Miami County residents, and others throughout the 14-state balancing authority region whose power supply is coordinated by the Southwest Power Pool (SPP), may find themselves without power for a short time as planned outages are being used as a tool to avoid a larger crisis.

OSAWATOMIE — One person was killed in a single-vehicle wreck Dec. 8 southeast of Osawatomie.