YEC trade show set for March 7
The Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge Trade Show will be from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. March 7 at the Meridian Center, 1420 E. Broadway Court. on March 7 from 10:30-11:30 AM. We would love to see you there!
February 2025
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Science Olympiad competes at regional
The joint Chisholm Middle School and Santa Fe 5/6 Center Science Olympiad team competed in the Wichita Regional tournament at Andover Central High School Feb.… Login to continue reading Login…
Common Sense
The term “common sense” is often evoked by President Trump, though his “common” sense can seem grotesquely solitary and unique, as for example when he cruelly shut down the USAID program, increasing disease, malnutrition and death for people in faraway places with desperate needs.
The Press Is More Important Than The President — And Should Start Acting Like It
In mid-February, the White House barred Associated Press journalists from presidential events for refusing to change the name of a body of water from “the Gulf of Mexico” to “the Gulf of America” in its reporting.
Hesston College Theatre to present musical “Urinetown”
With a pair of local students in the cast, Hesston College Theater will present an Tony Award-winning musical on campus March 5 through 9.
Exodusters and Nicodemus
Once Reconstruction came to an end in the post-Civil War South, anti-Black prejudice set in with a vengeance. Thus, many freed slaves decided to vacate the South. Many went to cities in the North, such as Chicago and Detroit, but others decided to take advantage of the Homestead Act and head to the Great Plains. Of those, many from Kentucky went to Kansas, where they were known as Exodusters—settlers on an exodus from the wet south to the dusty Great Plains.
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Andover Central boys turn tables on Newton
In the first meeting this season between the Newton High School boys’ basketball team and Andover Central, it was Newton with the hot hand shooting and the Jaguars struggling.