Photo Gallery: Sunset Field Day
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May 2022
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Remington wins 2-1A regional
VALLEY CENTER — The Remington Bronco baseball team won the Class 2-1A regional tournament Monday and Tuesday in Whitewater and Valley Center. Remington opened play… Login to continue reading Login…
Dragons claim 3A baseball regional title
Halstead advances to state tourney By Mark Schnabel Newton Kansan HALSTEAD — Class 3A baseball regionals can be taxing for most teams, especially for their… Login to continue reading Login…
Newton baseball team drops pitcher’s duel
Railers drop narrow decision to Valley Center By Mark Schnabel Newton Kansan MAIZE – The Newton High School baseball team had one of its top… Login to continue reading Login…
Railer baseball squad splits with Maize
The Newton High School baseball team finished the season on a mixed note, splitting an Ark Valley-Chisholm Trail League Division I doubleheader with Maize Friday at Klein-Scott Field. Newton won the first game 6-4, but lost the second game 15-3 in five innings on the 10-run rule.
Class of 2022 celebrated
More than 240 members of the Class of 2022 graduated from Newton High School during ceremonies May 15 at Hartman Arena. Students who graduated with Summa Cum Laude honors - a 3.5 grade point average with at least three advanced placement courses in different subject areas, six honors courses and a 29 or higher on ACT exam included Lauren Anton, Andrew Barron, Madeline Duncan, Benjamin Friesen Guhr, Caleb Koontz, Ethan Neufeld, Ember Suter, Cody Headings and Ember Suter, Students who graduated with Magna Cum Laude Honors - a 3.5 grade point average, at least two advance placement classes, five honors courses and a score of 16 or higher on the ACT exam included Kaden Anderson, Savannah Hunsucker, Madelynn Hamm, Hayley Loewen, David Meisel-Silva and Ann Pomeroy.
Similar foes continue stubbornly fighting progress
During a 2014 symposium marking the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision, a statement from one of the plaintiffs offered what today feels like prescient insight. Many of the Virginia plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit, feared integration and would have preferred separate and actually equal.
The Never-Ending (So Far) Fight Against Medicaid Misinformation
While a few serious issues continue to be debated in committee and the courts, basically the 2022 legislative session is a wrap. And once again, Medicaid expansion didn’t pass.
Endorsing Agriculture
Warning: this is about politics and the upcoming election. Wait, don’t stop reading because what I have to say is especially important and will affect your farm and ranch for a long time to come. I know we are all tired of the constant fighting and mudslinging and what happens in D.C. and Topeka seem to be millions of miles away. I am here to tell you what happens in both cities hits close to home.
No one left to speak
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” ~~George Santayana During the 1930’s, the Control-Leftists in Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Facist Italy, and the Communists in the USSR seized control of vast territories and proceeded to exterminate roughly 100,000,000 people that opposed their evil or didn’t fit into their vision of what people should look like or do. In doing so, they plunged the entire world into War.