The Kansan Staff WICHITA — The Newton High School girls’ golf team claimed three medalists and a second-place team finish at the Ark Valley-Chisholm Trail League Division I Championships Tuesday at the Auburn Hills Golf Course in Wichita. Maize won at 356, followed by Newton at 387, Salina South at 427-115, Maize South at 427-117, Campus at 436, Derby at 457 and Hutchinson at 465.
Please get involved We would like to publicly thank the Harvey County Planning and Zoning Commission for their hard work in revising the regulations for the CREP (Commercial Renewable Energy Project). We understand that they have put many hours of research, thought, and discussion into these regulations and we appreciate the care they have put into their decision.
A couple of weeks ago, I took a week-long trip to Scotland to take a closer look at their cattle industry. Several years ago my late wife and I spent a couple of weeks there, exploring the drove roads (what we would call cattle trails). We even spent the night at Amulrie, which was the site of an early cattle tryst (i.e. a cattle market), where we stayed at an inn that the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy had stayed in a couple of hundred years earlier.
Thursday was a great day for Newton, for reasons you may know and reasons you may not. Downtown was hopping on Thursday eve, as for the 35th time three blocks of Main were closed and food vendors moved in.
Dear Doctors: A family friend is suddenly on hospice care because of esophageal cancer, which has spread to his lungs and liver. The thing is, he never even knew he had it. Other than getting the hiccups and losing some weight, he was fine. What causes this cancer? How common is it?
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Become the driving force, and you’ll attract attention and interest. Don’t be shy; size up your situation and ask for what you want or the help you need. Personal growth and travel are favored.
Youngsters at the Sand Creek Summer Daze Festival had a hand in creating the latest mural installed by the Newton Murals Project, a pair of murals featuring buffalo created during the festival. “We have two [four foot by eight foot] murals that were created at Summer Daze by about 35 people, most of them under 10 years of age,” said Constance Gehring of the Newton Murals Project. “The murals feature buffalo moving towards the west.”
Despite current drought conditions this week county parks director Kass Miller was talking about flooding or more specifically, damage from flooding. In 2019 there were a number of areas of county parks that suffered river bank collapse due to flooding - and, ironically, some of those areas have suffered under drought.
Trash scheduled altered The Harvey Co. Transfer Station will be closed Oct.
The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip 7 p.m., 12:45 a.m. on BRAVO The Season 2 premiere episode “Return to Blue Stone Manor’,’ is an epic crossover featuring eight Housewives luminaries (Brandi Glanville, Dorinda Medley, Eva Marcille, Jill Zarin, Phaedra Parks, Tamra Judge, Taylor Armstrong and Vicki Gunvalson) who head out on a week-long vacation at one of the most historic Real Housewives homes: Medley’s Blue Stone Manor estate.