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11/13/2024

https://globegazette.com/news/selby-garden-road-veterans-day-and-vietnam/article_91437e4a-9bc1-11ef-9f16-9f30c347ed15.html

We are celebrating Veterans Day once again this year, and it is always personal for me, even though I only got war second hand.

11/05/2024

https://globegazette.com/news/micheala-eisenmann-combines-business-with-music/article_2c19ffc0-9708-11ef-943e-b7104a54cce2.html

There is always music in Micheala Eisenmann’s life. This fall, she’ll play clarinet in the pit band for the Osage Community School District’s production of “Bye Bye Birdie.” But Eisenmann’s

11/05/2024

https://globegazette.com/news/selby-garden-road-the-day-my-father-died/article_3985e974-96ec-11ef-bfd4-7bf956f6308e.html

It has been eight years since my father died of cancer. He would be angry if we were sad or let Oct. 25 change us in a negative way.

10/30/2024

https://globegazette.com/news/jessi-wegner-tries-to-make-every-day-halloween/article_73a85c5c-9180-11ef-be6c-eba900d7f98b.html

Jessi Wegner loves Halloween. It is her favorite holiday. This October, she is sharing that love with her students.

10/30/2024

https://globegazette.com/news/selby-garden-road-dressing-as-an-ape-doctor-on-halloween/article_ac16181e-90ad-11ef-9c65-bf792f98ecf3.html

In first grade, when I was much younger than I am now, I went as an ape for Halloween. My mother bought the suit for me from the small former

10/23/2024

https://globegazette.com/news/marin-thorson-finds-all-education-is-special/article_a47e3e42-8c07-11ef-9b60-3bc465eebb9d.html

Marin Thorson is a discus thrower. She is also the new second through fourth grade special education teacher at Lincoln Elementary School in Osage. The similarity between the two is

10/23/2024

https://globegazette.com/news/selby-garden-road-remembering-a-pandemic/article_7f103190-8cc2-11ef-8cd8-37d77125d3e7.html

In 2020, when I left the house for supplies, the streets were mostly empty, and there certainly was no toilet paper or hand sanitizer to be found at any store.

10/15/2024

https://globegazette.com/news/keith-kohl-begins-as-activities-director/article_4a1307a6-8691-11ef-a07b-8f4b9460a133.html

Keith Kohl is ready to go. This fall, he started as Osage Community School District’s activities director. So far, it is keeping him busy.

10/15/2024

https://globegazette.com/news/selby-garden-road-too-old-to-climb-trees/article_22a7f28e-8732-11ef-9f3d-fb63d33e152d.html

In our backyard at the corner of the garden a Crimson King maple grew. Its shadow kept a ring of grass from forming below. For a boy, it was a

10/09/2024

https://globegazette.com/news/kirsten-linkenmeyer-puts-in-the-social-work/article_cf006760-8100-11ef-a3bb-8b52ee3db56c.html

For Kirsten Linkenmeyer, public school is history. It is also social studies and psychology and everything else she teaches.

10/09/2024

https://globegazette.com/news/selby-garden-road-those-who-complained-in-our-workshop/article_4df0f008-8020-11ef-b52e-ebde8c75232f.html

It took a little over three hours to drive from our farm in southern Iowa to the University of Northern Iowa. That is where I attended graduate school. From Corydon

10/01/2024

https://globegazette.com/news/megan-patterson-and-the-allure-of-teaching/article_3360590c-7b81-11ef-ae8b-2b0430dc5d4d.html

Megan Patterson has come home. The St. Ansgar native lives on a farm near Stacyville and teaches sixth grade at Osage, her first year in that position. The farthest she

10/01/2024

https://globegazette.com/news/selby-garden-road-the-ghosts-of-the-present-and-the-past/article_2ec79614-7b84-11ef-8d0b-17e2093c5e3a.html

Sept. 29, 2024, was my parents’ 56th anniversary. The fact my father is gone changes the event, of course, making it like celebrating the birthday of a deceased family member.

09/24/2024

https://globegazette.com/news/selby-garden-road-vietnam-and-what-we-inherited/article_3adccf16-706f-11ef-83f2-07e7169fe7f1.html

As most children of Vietnam vets can testify, veterans prefer not to talk about their experiences. After my father served his tour and got back to the States, he tried

09/23/2024

https://globegazette.com/news/trevor-molitor-returns-home-to-osage/article_a16529f6-6fc3-11ef-9e92-6fd975dfe3a7.html

Trevor Molitor is a hometown kid. He is also the newest kindergarten through 12th grade curriculum director at Osage Community School District. The former quarterback is still settling in.

09/23/2024

https://globegazette.com/news/selby-garden-road-putting-out-the-fire/article_473fc078-706b-11ef-ac62-a70e4870428b.html

Auto correct is dictatorial. Proof of this comes from a social media exchange between two people. A woman writes her boyfriend, “I have been thinking about you and dreaming of

09/23/2024

https://globegazette.com/news/community/mcpress/osage-teacher-finds-a-home-away-from-colorado/article_e00a217a-7090-11ef-abbb-9be71c55980a.html

Taylor Elliott was raised in the mountains. Now she teaches fifth grade in Osage, and while she misses Colorado, she loves small-town life.

09/11/2024

https://globegazette.com/news/selby-garden-road-remembering-9-11-two-decades-later/article_d78caf7c-6aff-11ef-ac38-e70ae81e9514.html

In 2001, during the pilot episode of “The Lone Gunmen,” which was another spinoff of “The X-Files,” a passenger jet controlled remotely is steered toward one of the Twin Towers.

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