The Newton Baseball Club sponsored the 29-team Roger Gillispie Invitational Friday through Sunday at five different fields in the area. Bracket game results were not posted at deadline, but in the 14U division, the Newton D.Weeks team finished 2-0 in pool play, beating Newton Horton 6-3 and the Wichita Hornets 7-1.
The Sand Creek Summer Daze festival took over Athletic Park for three days - putting together entertainment for all ages July 7 through 9. Music, ranging for orchestra to jazz to hard rock, was on stage at the Athletic Park Bandshell during the festival.
I’m a dog walker and bicycle commuter, so I spend a lot of time on residential streets at less than highway speed. One result of this is that I notice and pay attention to campaign yard signs. As the vote over the proposed anti-abortion amendment approaches, that attention is paying off.
Wow!!! Where to begin. What a Fourth of July weekend to remember.
Kansas already has a law that limits the timing of abortions. The basic question Aug.
As I drive around town seeing the Vote Yes signs for the euphemistically labeled “Value Them Both” amendment, I wonder if those who put up the signs understand what is at stake. They may have a moral or religious objection to abortion, but do they really want the state to have the authority to interfere in our private and personal lives? While the issue may be identified as “abortion,” it is fundamentally an issue of the rights of women to reproductive health care and control over their lives. If approved, the proposed amendment opens the door to further threats to rights that have been codified into law. Like the camel with its nose under the tent, legislators hell-bent on forcing women and girls to give birth no matter the circumstances will push their agenda further to restrict the sexual and reproductive rights of women and families. The decision to terminate a pregnancy is based on many factors. To impose the legal system over that decision flies in the face of individual freedom and sets women’s rights back 50 years. Most of us find ourselves in the middle of what is a very nuanced issue, but extreme and loud voices seek to destroy that middle ground – safe and legal access to abortion with restrictions – which is the law in Kansas now. If the amendment passes, it will open the door for the complete criminalization of abortion and more in our state. I urge you to join me in voting “No” to the proposed amendment.
After the first year of college sports’ name, image and likeness era, football and men’s basketball still claim the throne for the number of deals and average compensation, and social media remains the most popular way to get that NIL money.
My wife’s stepdad, Mike, was notoriously slow to soften. This was especially true if you were me, the bouncy, naive kid dating his stepdaughter.
CHENEY — The Newton Sluggin’ Rebels claimed a split of weekend games against the Sunflower Collegiate League leading Cheney Diamond Dawgs in Cheney. Friday, Newton claimed a 6-3 win.
WICHITA — An Andrew Bechtold home run in the bottom of the eighth inning appeared to give the Wichita Wind Surge the advantage it needed, but a two-run Leandro Cedeno double with two outs in the ninth inning lifted the Amarillo Sod Poodles to a 4-3 win Sunday afternoon in Texas League play at Riverfront Stadium.