Through the lens: NYE at Eastgate
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January 2024
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What to expect in 2024
Last week the Newton Kansan contacted a few local leaders seeking the answer to one question - what is 2024 going to look like?
In Brief: Kansan to skip edition; County commission to meet; NRC offering ‘This is Your Year’
The Newton Kansan will not publish a print edition on Jan.
Amish Cook: Imagine the first weeks of Mary’s days as a mother
Imagine the conversations that must have been flying at top speed that first Christmas morning.
Prairie Doc Perspective: Seizures
A seizure can be one of the most frightening things for a family member, friend, or anyone to witness.
Retail pharmacy workers in Kansas and Missouri are unhappy with their pay and working conditions
Pharmacy work is a tough job, according to Amanda Applegate with the Kansas Pharmacists Association.
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Plains Folk: The Tree of Knowledge
With the same ritual devotion many households pay to the nativity story in Luke’s Gospel, we in our house attend to the classic Christmas story of prairie literature--Willa Cather’s narrative of a country Christmas in her novel, My Antonia.In Cather’s gospel, the boy, Jim, his grandparents, and the hired hands, Jake and Otto, on account of heavy snowfall, are unable to get to town and buy some of the usual trimmings and trappings for the holy day.
Dwelling on the right words
Thursday a short city commission meeting ended the public meeting with an opportunity for a new member to do what new members of governmental boards do quite often - suffer foot-Iin-mouth disease.Longtime watchers of local governments have seen this before.