Breaking: Police officer involved in accident at First and Meridian
A traffic accident involving a police vehicle at First and Meridian Streets sent one person to the hospital on Dec. 31. According to city public… Login to continue reading Login…
December 2022
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Plains Folk: Lawman Chauncey Whitney
Ask anyone to name famous lawmen from the Old West, and two names are sure to pop up immediately: Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok. Then will come Bat Masterson and Bill Tighlman, and maybe Bat’s brothers, Ed and Jim, or Wyatt’s brothers, Virgil and Morgan. After that the names come a lot more slowly, if at all. That’s not because there weren’t good marshals and sheriffs in the West; they just didn’t get the press. Or didn’t live long enough into the twentieth century to be able tell their own version of their lives, as did Earp to his biographer, Stuart Lake.
Arkansas withstands furious Kansas rally, wins Liberty Bowl
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Arkansas coach Sam Pittman admitted was exhausted after more than four hours of football.
Santa Fe gets HVAC upgrade
A portion of Poplar Street was closed on Dec. 29 for a crane to lift HVAC equipment into place for Santa Fe 5/6 Center - the work was not part of a bond issue passed earlier this year, but a project that has been in the works for a bit.
Award-winning photographer to offer Library program
Nate Hofer, winner of a 2021 a Global Peace Photo Award medal, will offer “Shooting for a Cause: How to Make Photographs Bigger Than Just You.” during the Newton Public Library Fourth Tuesday Photography program at 7 p.m. Jan. 24.
This year, resolve to be informed
Happy New Year! As this year comes to an end, and we begin to look forward to the next, many of us are quickly finalizing our plans for a new year’s resolution of some kind, while others may be looking forward to accomplishing many different things in the coming year. Without a doubt, this time of year brings at least a brief moment to reflect on the previous year, while also looking forward to the coming year’s possibilities.
Goodbye 2022. Bring on 2023.
It has come time to say goodbye to 2022, and hello to 2023. One can only imagine what this moment must have felt like 150 years ago, scant months after the city was officially formed and The Newton Kansan began to publish.
Thoughts on war
General Patton, who came down in history as a genius at war, in the end said “war is a horrible thing.” Generals MacArthur, Bradley, and Marshall echoed the sentiments when they saw the loss of life, hope, and home.
Gary Carter Clifton, Sr.
Gary Carter Clifton, Sr., 78, of McPherson, KS, died December 21, 2022. Survivors include: wife, Cherlyn; children, Tina (Tim) Harr, and Gary, Jr.