June 2022

Efforts to build a new public library facility in Newton received a boost this week, as the Dwane and Velma Lunt Wallace Foundation of Wichita announced a gift of $100,000 to the Newton Public Library capital campaign.

An unusual theater performance is looking for an audience, as Bethel College’s Prison Theater Project returns as a summer term course. Two students, under the direction of John McCabe-Juhnke, professor emeritus of communication arts, are collaborating with seven inmates at Hutchinson Correctional Facility’s medium-security East Unit for a performance titled Inside Story.