Chad Frey

Chad Frey

  • Joined: September 29, 2023
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Election off to fast start

The 2024 election has already broken records in Harvey County, it did so on the first day of advance balloting.On day one of early voting in Harvey County, Oct.

Meeting notices

BOE to meet The Newton USD 373 Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. Oct. 28 in the meeting room of McKinley Administrative Center,… Login to continue reading Login Sign up for complimentary access Sign Up Now Close

Constitution essay contest winners named

Three Newton High School seniors were honored Wednesday evening in the NHS Media Center for their involvement in the second annual Harvey County Constitution essay contest.Trek Wedel (1st), Riley Ney (2nd) and Hannah Litton (3rd) were honored out of the pool of 14 students who participated in the contest earlier this semester; nine from NHS and five from Halstead High School.The group had 780 words or less to answer the following prompt: Describe the limits that the Constitution places on popular participation in elections and why we should or should not keep them.Local precinct committee person Mike Fellows worked with NHS History/Government teacher Carson Matile, and Halstead High School History/Government teacher Derek Schutte to make the contest available to high school seniors.Judges, consisting of Harvey county dignitaries, reviewed the essays without knowing who the author was.

Task force says Kansas schools should ban cellphones for all students

WICHITA — An advisory group created by Kansas education leaders is recommending that schools ban cellphones for students at every grade level.A majority of the 36-member Blue Ribbon Task Force on Student Screen Time voted to recommend that districts prohibit students from using cellphones for the entire school day, including during lunch and passing periods.They also voted to recommend that students store personal devices “in a secure location that is not accessible to them during the school day.”The group meets again this week and plans to make its final report with recommendations to the Kansas State Board of Education in November.Derby teacher Tawna Hall serves on the task force and supports “bell-to-bell” policies that ban cellphones.