Newsletter-Early-Week

LOUISBURG – The Louisburg Library bond special election is set for May 6, but library district voters can advance vote beginning Wednesday, April 16.

PAOLA – Members of the Paola-based Panther Robotics Team 1108 are heading back to Houston to compete in the FIRST Robotics World Championship.

LOUISBURG – For the first time in 53 years, there is a new chairman of the board at First National Bank of Louisburg, but the last name is staying the same, as Casey McLiney is taking over for his father, Joe.

OSAWATOMIE – Todd Schneider is the new owner of Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home in Osawatomie, but the name and local staff will remain the same, including Emily and Loren McCrea.

PAOLA – A resolution that gives Paola USD 368 the option to implement a cost-of-living tax in the upcoming budget was approved 6-1 by Paola school board members during their March 10 meeting.

LOUISBURG - Louisburg Library Director Kiersten Allen and Youth Services Director Elizabeth Ellis have watched the library evolve during the past several years.

OSAWATOMIE – USD 367 school board members have finalized the details of a $20,050,000 school bond issue that will be proposed to voters during a special election Tuesday, June 3.

Several Paola High School journalism students recently won awards at the Kansas Scholastic Press Association’s Tallgrass Regional.