PARK CITY — The Newton High School boys wrestling team has a lot of accomplishments in its long history. A four-time state champion can now be added to that list as senior Nick Treaster did that Saturday at the Class 5A state championships at Hartman Arena.
If two bills moving through the Kansas legislature become law, together they could destabilize public schools, prove disastrous for Kansas students and reduce the state general tax fund. As currently written, the bills would shift funding to private and home schools plus permit affluent parents to donate enough to an existing scholarship fund to write off the entire cost of private schooling.
Last weekend a few area women leaned a new skill how to use a few basic knots to create a piece of fiber art. The learned the classic art form of macrame, during a workshop at Community Creative Services (inside the Old Mill, 201 N.
The children and I have come to enjoy our times spent with my cousin Josh, his wife Joyce, and their five children. At any given time they, as many others, have been there for us during these times of adjusting and readjusting as we miss Daniel.
HAYS – The Halstead Dragons claimed two medals out of four competing at the Class 3-2-1A State Championships Friday at the Gross Memorial Coliseum in Hays. Senior Skyler Geer at 150 pounds and sophomore Clayton Considine each reached the consolation finals, where they posted wins to place third.
The Bethel College men’s basketball team shot 59 percent from the field, 50 percent from 3-point range, to top Sterling College 90-73 Saturday afternoon at Thresher Gym. Bethel, 20-9, takes on Southwestern at 6 p.m.
Railers fall to Hutch HUTCHINSON – The Newton High School girls’ basketball team fell to Hutchinson 35-20 Friday in AV-CTL I play in Hutchinson. The Newton boys fell to Hutchinson 58-39.
“Learning losses from COVID-19 could cost this generation of students close to $17 trillion in lifetime earnings,” according to a report from the World Bank on December 6, 2021. Senator Everett Dirksen long ago famously observed: “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” But this is trillion, with a “t.”
The grand potentates in charge of the Kansas Legislature believe that lowering tax rates on the rich will transform our state. I have some bad news for them. You can fiddle with percentages all you want, but you can’t relocate Kansas to the Gulf Coast.
Dear Doctors: One of my roommates went to the ER because of abdominal pain and nausea. It turned out to be appendicitis, and we all thought he would need to have surgery. But the doctors did something they called nonoperative management, and he got better. What is that? Is it safe?