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With every swipe, charge and purchase, about 600 customers of First Option Bank have helped raise more than $20,000 for Osawatomie USD 367.

For obvious reasons, kids are usually on the "receiving" end of the holiday gift-giving cycle.

By Mike Steck's way of thinking, kids aren't getting the credit they deserve. As a volunteer at Agape Food Pantry, Steck sees it all the time - the power kids have to enact positive change in the community and how many of them are putting those powers to good use each and every day.

For the most part, Brian Biermann isn't a huge fan of making phone calls on the job.

Dreams are funny things. At one point or another, everyone has likely woken up from one, momentarily disoriented because of how real it felt.

After winning a top prize of $5,000 on a $1 Quick Crossword scratch ticket over the holiday weekend, theya re hoping to win some money in the Kansas Lotterya s Holiday Millionaire Raffle drawing New Yeara s Eve.

Most Kansans are long familiar with the 1939 film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's classic tale "The Wizard of Oz." In one of the film's final scenes, a curious Dorothy goes hunting for the source of the Wizard's mysterious voice.

In 1992, Louisburg USD 416 had good reason to give thanks. With the opening of a new high school, the district was able to offer its rapidly-growing student population a first-class learning environment.

With a healthy number of pick-your-own apple operations within easy driving distance of Kansas City, the world of apple cider is fairly competitive.

Almost a decade ago, Kim Silance was starting her first day on the job as the Stilwell Post Office's newly-minted postmaster.

If Thanksgiving is all about bringing family closer together, shouldn't that philosophy extend to a family built on shared faith as well? That's a philosophy followed by the Louisburg faith community anyway, since at least 1938.

On Dec. 5, from 9 a.m.A to 3 p.m., the Louisburg Middle School Parent Teacher Student Organization will hold the seventh annual Holiday Mart.

Panther Lube and Tire is now open and ready to facilitate your vehiclea s needs.

It's not often that city governments get to deal with a pair of big-ticket items during a single meeting, but such was the case in Louisburg on Monday night.

Wayne Knop didn't really need the extra incentive. As a Louisburg resident, veteran and post commander of Louisburg American Legion Post 250, he would have attended the Veterans Day ceremony at Louisburg Middle School anyway.

At the USD 416 District School Board meeting Monday night, Superintendent Sharon Zoellner discussed percentages, the budget and what Louisburg students have been achieving recently.

The Louisburg Chamber of Commerce gave out its annual Chamber Appreciation Award on Nov.

Gary French is planning for the worst. No one ever wants a disaster to hit a school, but it's a possibility that the Osawatomie USD 367 superintendent knows could come at any time.

Ita s that time of year again. The season for giving, listening to Christmas music on the radio and cozying up to a fire with a cup of cocoa.

Larry Fries brushes away the leaves from the completed memorial for Shelly Tooley as the sun sets behind him at Cedar Cove Feline Conservatory and Education Center.