Area prep football: Week 5
All games 7 p.m. Class 2A, District 5 Halstead (1-3) @ Hillsboro (1-3) This will be a key game for the winner’s playoff hopes. Halstead… Login to continue reading Login…
September 2022
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Sports Calendar
October 1 through October 9, All times Central NOTE: All competitions are subject to change. Check with www.thekansan.com, the Kansan sports Twitter page (@nksports) and… Login to continue reading Login…
Railers split AV-CTL I home tri
The Newton High School volleyball team struggled a bit last week with a 2-6 finish, but came back this week with a 6-2 mark capped by a split of an Ark Valley-Chisholm Trail League Division I triangular Tuesday at Ravenscroft Gym. Newton topped Derby 25-17, 25-23; but lost to ninthranked (KVA, Class 6A, made before Hutchinson’s reclassification to 5A was announced) Hutchinson 25-18, 25-15.
County sets date for wind energy rules vote
For members of the Harvey County Planning and Zoning Board there has been a lot of work to get to this week - the week that recommended rules for renewable energy projects were formally presented to the Harvey County Commission for initial review and questions. “We tried to make it as fair to everybody as we could,” said Justin Stucky, the chair of the Planning and Zoning Board. “It’s not only the neighbors, but people who own these properties as well. That was a tough one for us, that is for sure.” The Harvey County Commission gave first review to proposed zoning regulations by the Harvey County Planning and Zoning Board for Commercial Renewable Energy Projects on Sept. 27.
Reblooming Poinsettias and Christmas Cactus
Gardeners like a challenge and the sense of accomplishment when trying something new. Forcing poinsettias and Christmas cactus to rebloom provides such an opportunity. These plants need 14 hours of uninterrupted darkness each night to set flowers for the winter holidays. Starting between late September and October 1st, cover or move your plants into a dark location each night. Shield them from any outdoor, street or reading lights that can delay or prevent flowering.
Wendell Mains
Wendell Mains was born January 1936 to Wendell and Gladys (Eastman) Mains in Iowa. Wendell died on September 21, 2022 at his home in Wichita, Kansas.He was preceded in death…
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Responding to Bongrager Gregory Bontrager’s most recent letter, printed in The Newton Kansan on September 24, is perhaps the most racist thing I’ve recently seen in our local papers, equating the undocumented Venezuelan migrants, deceptively shipped by DeSantis to Martha’s Vineyard, as “animals” and “third-world squatters.” To the Newton Kansan: “Freedom of speech” does not obligate you to give space to racism. – Dave Osborne, Hesston Lindley Hall and decades of injustice Jim Crow Laws conjure up images of fire hoses and police dogs being used on Minority Americans.
Editorial Roundup: Kansas
Editorial: Kansas deputy should have lost certification for excessive force on autistic child On Feb. 23, Matthew Honas, then a Jackson County sheriff’s deputy, used his taser on a 12-year-old autistic boy.
Insight: History of Hedge
Osage orange trees are still common throughout much of the United States, though not many people appreciate just how much the thorny, dense trees have shaped our country. Before Christopher Columbus’ arrival, Osage orange had a limited range in the Red River basin in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Like the droves of Europeans who followed, the tree eventually spread to all corners of our country, so long as you don’t count Alaska and Hawaii.
Kansans with disabilities face too many barriers.
I didn’t know much about disabilities or advocacy groups like the Disability Rights Center of Kansas. However, when I became diagnosed with a mental illness at the ripe age of 18, I suddenly learned that the road ahead of me was going to be long and difficult.