Lawrence Froelich Jr.
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Larry C. Froelich, 61, Tecumseh, died Sept. 18 at home.
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10:32 am | There are six school districts in Jefferson County. There used to be an even 100. Those country schools were spaced so that a couple’s children didn’t have much over…
Mar 31 2014 / Read More »
10:11 am | Four weed eaters, 40 chain saw chains, five chain saw bars, and 11 months ago Pat and Vicki Langton started a journey packed with clarity and truckloads of…
Mar 31 2014 / Read More »
12:00 pm | Award-winning author and journalist Ariel Sabar, Washington, D.C., has just published a Kindle single e-book, “The Outsider: The Life and Times of Roger Barker.” Barker was a University of…
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10:20 am | This weekend marks the grand opening of a new enlarged facility for Colonial Acres Floral and Antiques on the south side of Oskaloosa.…
Jan 29 2014 / Read More »
12:57 pm | A structure fire late Monday night destroyed two businesses on the Oskaloosa square.…
Jan 24 2014 / Read More »
12:53 pm | The Valley Falls Historical Society Museum has been fairly quiet these past winter months, but president Betty Jane Wilson hopes that as the weather warms up, the museum…
Jan 24 2014 / Read More »
Government
Better alert system for county discussed »
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A mass notification system that would use cell phones to alert people about emergencies was discussed by Mike Baxter, Jefferson County emergency management director, before the county commissioners Monday.
Feb 3 2014 / Read More »Mortgage fee elimination could strain county budget »
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The potential elimination of mortgage registration fees could put a strain on the county’s budget in the upcoming year.
Dec 30 2013 / Read More »Commission opens grader bids »
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The county commission opened three bids for two new graders Monday afternoon.
Dec 16 2013 / Read More »R-Bar-B expansion approved, 2-1 »
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The county commission made a split decision to approve the conditional use permit for the expansion of R-Bar-B Monday afternoon.
Dec 9 2013 / Read More »
County News
Judge opens way to restore Neuhaus’s license »
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Stripped of her limited license in 2012 for having referred young patients for late-term abortions nine years earlier, Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus of rural Nortonville is one step closer to regaining the full license she once had before her association with the late Dr. George Tiller had adverse consequences professionally.
Mar 31 2014 / Read More »The last country school »
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There are six school districts in Jefferson County. There used to be an even 100.
Those country schools were spaced so that a couple’s children didn’t have much over two miles to walk to get to school.
Mar 31 2014 / Read More »Caring for lost souls: couple soon to complete Medina Cemetery restoration »
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Four weed eaters, 40 chain saw chains, five chain saw bars, and 11 months ago Pat and Vicki Langton started a journey packed with clarity and truckloads of hard work.
It was last April when the couple began the task of clearing and cleaning the long forgotten Medina Cemetery near Perry. The job is almost done.
Mar 31 2014 / Read More »Book tells story of Psychological Field Station »
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Award-winning author and journalist Ariel Sabar, Washington, D.C., has just published a Kindle single e-book, “The Outsider: The Life and Times of Roger Barker.”
Barker was a University of Kansas professor who ran the Midwest Psychological Field Station in Oskaloosa from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. Barker and his wife, Louise, now lie buried in the town cemetery.
Feb 3 2014 / Read More »Valley Falls boys capture McLouth Invitational trophy »
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Four county teams entered the McLouth Boys’ Invitational Tournament Jan. 21 and two — Valley Falls and McLouth—made it to the championship round with Valley Falls taking home the top trophy.
Jan 30 2014 / Read More »Meriden youth sends a clear message »
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Eleven-year-old Heather Kahler, Meriden, is one of three northeast Kansas regional winners in the 2013 Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day poster contest.
As a regional winner, Heather received a bicycle and a bicycle helmet donated by Safe Kids Kansas at an afternoon school assembly presentation Jan. 17 at Jefferson West Middle School.
Jan 23 2014 / Read More »