|
News -
Osawatomie
|
|
Written by Kevin Gray
|
|
Friday, 29 May 2009 08:00 |
 With the Osawatomie High School Alumni Association’s 114th-annual festivities behind them, local and not-so-local businesses have had time to determine what one of the biggest weekend events of the year left behind.
Couple Osawatomie alumni weekend with the Memorial Day holiday, and business owners saw an upswing in earnings, even if it was hard to determine the actual effects of having out-of-town guests in town to visit their alma mater or attend holiday get-togethers.
Before the big weekend, Mike Moon could not tell what impact the reunion would have on business at his Moon’s Hometown Market, as the Memorial Day holiday and alumni weekend always have been intertwined.
“If it was not alumni weekend, just Memorial Day, we would be getting ready in exactly the same way with the same types of merchandise, and probably in similar quantities,” he said.
His merchandise mix and product advertising was heavily slanted toward picnic and cookout items, such as pop, ice, charcoal, beer, beans, chips, buns, grilling meats, sandwich fixings and disposable tableware.
|
|
|
News -
Osawatomie
|
|
Written by Robin Hixson
|
|
Friday, 15 May 2009 08:00 |
A rural Osawatomie man was arrested April 29 by Miami County sheriff’s deputies and accused of child abuse.
Assistant Miami County Attorney Elizabeth Sweeney-Reeder filed a formal felony charge May 1 against Jacob Bernard Cody, 35, of 37155 W. 351st St., alleging willful, felonious and intentional torture, cruel beating or shaking of a child, or inflicting cruel and inhumane corporal punishment.
The alleged victim, identified only with initials in the court record, was born in 1998.
|
|
News -
Osawatomie
|
|
Written by Doug Carder and Brian McCauley
|
|
Friday, 01 May 2009 09:22 |
Kim Bennett stood atop the Pottawatomie Creek levee looming over her Kelly Avenue home in Osawatomie on Wednesday night, crossing her arms and staring at the murky water pooling along the grassy embankment.
 Her thoughts wandered to the past. It was less than two years ago when Kim and her husband, John, had to grab their children and a few belongings and abandon their home as floodwaters poured over the levee, eventually filling their house with four to five feet of water.
Powerful downpours of rain Wednesday paired with steady rain earlier in the week had already pushed the Marais des Cygnes River and Pottawatomie Creek over their banks, and Kim was keeping a close watch on the forecast, which called for more rain Thursday and over the weekend.
Kim, who said she and her family were only given about 45 minutes of warning of the flooding in 2007, wasn’t about to be taken off guard this time. She made the long walk up the levee embankment Wednesday to see for herself where the water level stood.
|
|
News -
Osawatomie
|
|
Written by Kevin Gray
|
|
Friday, 24 April 2009 08:00 |
Osawatomie will host Railroad Days on Saturday, beginning with a 5K run/walk race, the Kansas Oldtime Fiddlers, Pickers and Singers, and a variety of activities near the Osawatomie Historical Society and Railroad Depot Museums at 628 Main St.
Railroad Days celebrates Osawatomie’s railroad heritage, as the community was a division point for the Missouri Pacific and the Union Pacific railroads. The Depot Museum houses railroad artifacts. A model railroader will have a running model train setup.
“Running the Rails for a Reason,” a 5K run/walk race sponsored by Tri-Ko, begins the day at 9 a.m. at the museum’s courtyard.
|
|
News -
Osawatomie
|
|
Written by Robin Hixson
|
|
Friday, 17 April 2009 08:00 |
The no-go preliminary hearing for an Osawatomie man accused last month of abusing his mother has been continued for a second time.
The hearing first was set to take place March 26, five days after Dennis S. Keeling, 62, was released from the Miami County Jail after payment of a $5,000 bond. However, he did not appear at the appointed time, and Mary Stephenson, his court-appointed attorney, told the court Keeling was unable to do so because he was in Olathe Medical Center. She requested a continuance, which Judge Steven Montgomery granted, and the hearing was reset for April 2. Another continuance has since been granted, and the no-go preliminary hearing is now scheduled for 1:30 p.m. April 30.
Stephenson is defending Keeling against charges of aggravated battery and mistreatment of a dependent adult that Miami County Attorney David Miller filed against him March 18 in connection with an investigation into the alleged abuse of 89-year-old Tilda Keeling between Jan. 1 and March 16.
|
|
|
|
|
<< Start < Prev 1 2 Next > End >>
|
|
Page 1 of 2 |
