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Railer golfers fifth at Buhler HESSTON — The Newton High School girls’ golf team placed fifth Friday at the 14-team Buhler Invitational at the Hesston… Login to continue reading Login…
September 2022
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Six seniors honored at final home matches By Mark Schnabel Newton Kansan The Newton High School volleyball team struggled a bit last week with a… Login to continue reading Login…
At Nicodemus reunion, familial and Kansas history converge
state. Maybe it was my hunger for history, whetted during myriad chats with my father while cooped up during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Railer spikers take third at home meet
The Kansan Staff After a 2-6 run of matches in the previous seven days, the Newton High School volleyball team came back for a thirdplace finish Saturday at the Newton Invitational. In the first round of pool play, Newton topped Salina South 25-18, 25-19; and Andover Central 25-23, 22-25, 25-20.
Fox Meadows gutted by fire
David Terrones was sitting at home on Sunday, when he saw something alarming. “I was on the back,” Terrones said. “On that balcony the flames were burning like crazy.” He got out of his apartment in Fox Meadows Apartments in the 700 block of West 12th with the clothes on his back and shoes on his feet.
Homecoming court, plans announced
Newton High School recently announced the Fall 2022 Homecoming court and parade route for the annual observance. King candidates for homecoming include Ryan Ruggiero, Camden Carr, Isaac Klug and Collin Hershberger.
Insight Kansas: What Emporia Has Lost
The news coming out of Emporia last week, with at least 30 members of the faculty of Emporia State University fired on one day, was terribly sad. Not just because the firings were a blow to the education of hundreds of ESU students, but also because it reflects a failure to understand just what, realistically speaking, higher education in Kansas should be all about.
Education Frontlines: Corporatization of universities
America’s rise to prominence following World War II was due to a massive increase in university attendance, heavily stimulated by the GI Bill. The return of war veterans, who had experienced the Great Depression in their childhood, along with the prior inflow of foreign academics who had fled persecution, led to a surge in college and university expansions. University enrolment in 1950 was seven times the proportion of college enrolment in 1900! This in turn resulted in a solid growth in the U.S. economy, expanded suburbs, and more subsequent Nobel Prizes. –But only for two generations.
Donna Reve McAnulty
June 16, 1933-September 21, 2022 Donna was born on a farm in Butler County on June 16, 1933. Her parents were Hugh and Flossie Westervelt.
Geraldine Ewert
Durham - Geraldine Ewert, 91, passed away September 19, 2022 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. Jost Funeral Home .