Building use evaluation for USD 373 continues
Within the last week two members of the Newton USD 373 Board of Education participated in a community meeting which was part of an effort to create a plan for future building use.
January 2025
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Kansas secretary of state endorses bill nullifying AG’s refusal to affirm school bond vote
TOPEKA — The Kansas secretary of state and Republican legislators endorsed Tuesday a bill nullifying the state attorney general’s decision to invalidate on a technicality passage of a $4.6 million bond issue for Greeley County public schools.
Land market starting to flatten, says K-State economist
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Non-irrigated cropland prices in Kansas rose 3.8% last year, while pasture and hay ground increased by approximately 2.7%, according to information in the 2024 Kansas Agricultural Land Values and Trends publication released earlier this year.
Letter to the editorIs BESS a Danger?
BESS stands for “Battery Energy Storage System.” The largest BESS in the US is located at Moss Landing in California. It is 3000 Megawatt-hours in size, and was built in sections.
Education Frontlines: More reasons to go metric
Over twenty-five years ago, our failure to adopt the metric system resulted in the loss of our Mars Climate Orbiter probe launched at Cape Canaveral on December 11, 1998. On September 23, 1999, communication with the orbiter was lost as it came too close to the surface of Mars. An investigation discovered the failure to be caused by a mismatch between the metric units used by NASA and the spacecraft’s builder Lockheed Martin that used the non-metric system.
Letter to the editorGrant for trail extension a good thing
The grant offered to Newton by KDOT for Sand Creek Trail is a very good thing, and the city did well to accept it on such short notice. It is to be used to close the Trail’s missing link between 1st and South 14th Streets West.
Letter to the editorExpel cartel conspirators
It is my hope that there will be a complete expulsion of all people who have consorted with criminal gangs and drug cartels, including the… Login to continue reading Login…
Amish Cook: Intrigued by the drastic variation of mankind
<n>By: Gloria Yoder Are you a morning person or an evening person? I am intrigued by the drastic variation of mankind. How can some thrive… Login to continue reading Login…
Prairie Doc Perspective: What can we learn from the dying?
For the last five years, I have had the great privilege of serving my local health system as Medical Director for Home Hospice. Every week I sit in a meeting with the multidisciplinary caretakers on this team – the nurses who provide the great majority of the hands-on care, social worker, pharmacist, dietician, and pastor. We discuss all the patients currently under our care and discuss how we can improve each patients suffering and maximize their quality of life.
The good and could-be-better of Kansas philanthropy
Kansas cities, like all American cities—including all the blue ones that our new president regularly attacks—are not radical places. They may have more Democratic voters than the state’s rural counties, and those voters may prefer more egalitarian policies than will ever pass in Topeka, but their economies are just as dependent upon capitalism as the state and country as a whole.