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After graduating from Louisburg High School and then working in the school district for 32 years, Bonnie Stuteville is ready to retire.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
Thirty-four years ago, Judy Lohse walked through the doors of Circle Grove Elementary School to start her career with USD 416. Now the school is the location of the district offices, and she’ll finish her career by walking through those same doors to retire.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
When Micro Computer Applications students finished an extra credit project at Fort Scott Community College, they ended up with a history lesson of Miami County in the 1870s.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
If the weather is nice, you can find Osawatomie High School Principal Doug Chisam tossing around a football with students at lunch.  ... Read more
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After 40 years teaching band, Dean Davison, Louisburg High School assistant band director, has many fond memories of students and their successes.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
After retiring from Hillsdale Elementary School, Beth Conner decided to turn her love of drawing into a business.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
Broadmoor Elementary School students learned about poetry from a professional Monday. But Kenn Nesbitt isn’t the average poet.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
After a morning of competition at Johnson County Community College, Lakemary Center students brought home 19 medals from the Kansas City job olympics.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
When helping seniors share memories, Holly Gillogly tries to engage all five senses.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
Former Louisburg resource officer Shane McClintock visited freshman physical education classes at Louisburg High School on Monday to warn students about alcohol abuse and to disprove some common myths.  ... Read more
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Although the Klondike Derby is supposed to be a winter camping experience for Boy Scouts, this year’s event boasted 50-degree weather and no snow.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
Paola Middle School students stepped away from class Feb. 10 to make time to visit with residents at Vintage Park as part of their seminar project.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
Paola High School’s developmental leadership students joined Leadership Miami County students Wednesday to hear “8 To Great” author MK Mueller discuss how to be a more positive person.  ... Read more
Osawatomie High School students are set to put on a show of vaudevillian proportions during the school’s Variety Show set for Monday evening.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
The George York School in Osawatomie teaches students with chronic and severe behavior problems, and for that, it gets an undeserved reputation.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
As part of Lakemary Center’s vocational program, Paola residents may see Lakemary students hard at work in local businesses, such as Tyson stocking shelves at Price Chopper or Taylor seeding peppers at El Tapatio.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
Trent Robinson has only been taking piano lessons for two years, but he’s already composing his own music.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
During a tour on a recent trip to New York City, Paola High School senior Nathan Short finally had the chance to stand on a Broadway stage. And it just felt right.  ... Read more
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The Louisburg High School band’s garrison flag is folded in a specific fashion before it goes into its specially-made box. The box holds the flag just right so when four eighth-grade band students pull the corners, it bursts into color across the field.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
Lori French’s class of Osawatomie Middle School seventh-graders will be experiencing their town’s history in a whole new way this semester. They’ll draw, write, shoot movies and maybe even sing about it.  ... Read more
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Four Paola Middle School student council officers learned a little bit more about politics when they attended President Barack Obama’s speech in Osawatomie on Tuesday.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
Along with every major area newspaper and television station at the presidential address in Osawatomie on Tuesday were two lucky Osawatomie High School reporters, Brittany Heppler and Chance Jolley.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
Each Monday, a group of mad scientists gathers in Louisburg to perform experiments, test theories and, most importantly, reignite a passion for studying science.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
Eco Elvis stopped at Queen of the Holy Rosary-Wea school Monday to get students all shook up about the new recycling program the school is implementing.  ... Read more
From painting ceramics to learning about sports memorabilia, Program Friday at First Presbyterian Church in Osawatomie offer seniors an opportunity to come out to enjoy lunch while they learn.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
When Arnold Debrick started the second grade at Trinity Lutheran School in Block in the 1930s, he relied on his horse to get him to school, which wasn’t pleasant during winter, but neither were the school’s outhouses.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
After earning her degree at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., longtime Paola School of Dance student-turned-teacher Hannah Hasselquist is back in the studio.  ... Read more
Annie Vangsnes
When schools and teachers in Osawatomie find themselves coming up short in resources, Partners In Education always seems to find a way to help.  ... Read more
Parents tired of hearing about the drug and alcohol problems at Paola High School are banding together and making a stand for their students with the creation of the group Stand Up For Teens.  ... Read more
Ann Montemayor
Ann Montemayor
With the success of math tutoring every morning at Trojan Elementary last year, the school has expanded its program to include first and second grade this year.  ... Read more
Ann Margret Montemayor
Mohammed Al-Harazi has come from the capital of Yemen, Sana’a, to attend Louisburg High School this year.  ... Read more
Along with the new school year in Miami County comes the intensive planning process to implement Common Core State Standards, an initiative approved by the Kansas State Board of Education last October.  ... Read more
Ann Montemayor
Carefully studying their materials and weighing their options, soon-to-be Cub Scouts and their parents had the important task of choosing their new pack at Cottonwood Elementary School on Tuesday night.  ... Read more
Annie Vangsnes
Paola High School will welcome John Menefee and Brett Brownback as two new agriculture teachers and FFA advisers this school year.  ... Read more
Summer reading programs have wrapped up, or are about to, and the projects marked another year of success in Osawatomie, Paola and Louisburg.  ... Read more
Annie Vangsnes
A new healthy cooking class at the Miami County Family YMCA is helping participants better understand what they’re putting on their plate and into their body.  ... Read more
Photo by Annie Vangsnes
Photo by Adam Strunk
While Paola High School seniors filed into the gymnasium to take their seats for graduation last month, one seat was left unoccupied, except for a Marines poster topped with a mortarboard.  ... Read more
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Annie Vangsnes
After returning from the Frontier League art contest in Ottawa a couple of weeks ago, students at Louisburg High School not only returned with recognition, but also some new ideas.  ... Read more
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Photo by Annie Vangsnes
Ginger Kelsey will retire from 27 years in food service from the Paola USD 368 this month, but when she first started as a teacher in 1966, food service didn’t exist in schools.  ... Read more
Photo by Brandon Steinert
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Photo by Annie Vangsnes
Trojan Elementary School Principal Jeff White will do anything for his students.  ... Read more
Photo by Annie Vangsnes
When Cui Hong Fink met her husband in Garnett at the restaurant where she worked, he spoke English, and she spoke Chinese. To communicate, she had to use a hand-held translator.  ... Read more
Photo Brandon Steinert
Sixty-six years ago to the day, Sonia Warshewski endured a gunshot wound to the chest. But, she said, it was one of the best days of her life.  ... Read more
Photo by Annie Vangsnes
On one of the few days the piano students at Osawatomie High School weren’t practicing scales and techniques, they were discussing composers and the lives behind the pieces they play.  ... Read more
Photo by Annie Vangsnes
The next step for Bruce Olson’s martial arts training was to teach, but he was already busy enough with one business to start another. So he decided to start his school, Whitehorse Chinese Kempo, on a donation basis in Louisburg.  ... Read more
Late work, missed assignments and unfinished projects are problems every student and teacher run into at some point or another. By itself, a single misstep can be insignificant, but such habits are rarely isolated incidents.  ... Read more
Annie Vangsnes
Mercedes Birchard never thought she’d be a lifeguard, but now she’s the one teaching others the art of emergency rescue.  ... Read more
Photo by Annie Vangsnes
Annie Vangsnes
Second-graders at Paola’s Cottonwood Elementary School opened up boxes and envelopes this week to pull out flattened versions of themselves for the annual Flat Stanley project.  ... Read more
Annie Vangsnes
Eleven new members of the Beta Rho Lamda chapter of Phi Theta Kappa were inducted Tuesday at Fort Scott Community College’s Miami County campus in Paola. Guest speakers at the ceremony were Mayor Artie Stuteville and Tammy Fuentez, Phi Theta Kappa regional coordinator in Kansas.  ... Read more
During hard budget years, news regarding lost teachers and suspended programs dominates the headlines.  ... Read more
Photo by Annie Vangsnes
Clifford’s a celebrity at Osawatomie Middle School. All the students know him, and children around town recognize him. He has his own special corner at Applebee’s in Paola, and he’s in the yearbook between Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Davis.  ... Read more
By Brian McCaulley
Holy Trinity Catholic School students learned more than just how to conduct experiments during this year’s science fair. They also learned how to work under a tight deadline.  ... Read more
Most high school students get ready to head off to college after their senior year, but Paola High School senior Amanda Berckefeldt is in her second year of life on a college campus taking college-level classes.  ... Read more
Jesse Kratz
This Valentine’s Day, a few children and mothers got their special someone something a little different than the typical bouquet of flowers or box of chocolate treats.  ... Read more
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Former Paola FFA member Alyssa Jobe is one of only six students across the state to be selected to take part in the fourth annual Cargill Genuinely Better scholarship program.  ... Read more
Jesse Kratz
Every once in awhile teachers will take an unorthodox approach to how they teach. It may raise some eyebrows outside of the classroom, but for the students inside, it usually only makes things a bit more exciting and out of the ordinary.  ... Read more
Photo by Annie Vangsnes
Many leather workers used to take their trade secrets to the grave, not even sharing with their own sons who took up the craft, but Randy Cornelius is determined to change that.  ... Read more
The Paola FFA Chapter finished first overall in the Harold Hardin Memorial FFA Meats Judging Invitational on Thursday.  ... Read more

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