Pittsburg city leaders talk out personal conflicts at ‘study session’
Morning Sun
PITTSBURG, Kan. City officials met last Saturday for what was billed as a study session to plan for the 2021 Pittsburg City Commission Work Day. At times, however, what transpired seemed more like a group therapy session.
“I really didn’t realize what I was getting myself into running for a city commission post,” Commissioner Cheryl Brooks said near the start of the meeting.
“I thought I could really make a difference, mainly because of being in business for as many years as I had been, I thought my husband and I have done really well as far as making decisions and treating people the way we would want to be treated, but the drama of being a political figure is just unbelievable in my opinion.”
LITTLE BALKANS CHRONICLES St. Mary’s Knight of the Altar
J.T. Knoll
The Sisters of St. Joseph of Wichita were called to Pittsburg in 1895 to operate an elementary school in Our Lady of Lourdes Parish. From then until 2008, more than 200 nuns served the parish. This week’s column by Gary Gleason, which relates some of his experiences at St. Mary’s Grade School, is excerpted from his essay “Boyhood Days in Pittsburg, Kansas.” Gary is now retired and living with his wife in Gainesville, Georgia. J.T.K.
I was 7 years old in 1954 when Dad got a job at Mid-States Manufacturing just west of Pittsburg and moved us from 30 miles east of Parsons to a house on Lindburg Street, just off South Broadway across from Kansas State Teachers College (KSTC), now Pittsburg State.