Chad Frey

Chad Frey

  • Joined: September 29, 2023
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Eggtooth earns top poetry honor in Kansas

Jesse Nathan, a poet whose voice rises from the Kansas prairie and reaches far beyond, has been named the winner of the 2025 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award in Poetry for his collection, Eggtooth. The $1,000 award will be presented on Friday, September 19, at 4 p.m. in Room 120 of the Plass Learning Resources Center (1731 Plass Ave) on the Washburn University campus just ahead of the annual Kansas Book Festival. Nathan will be present to give a reading from the book.

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Demolition of 320 N. Main set to begin

Aug. 26 the Newton City Commission wawarded a bid for demolition of 320 N. Main, a former Dillon’s Grocery store the city has owned for more than a decade with the intention of demolishing the building.

 Data centers, battery systems on hold

he McPherson County Commission put six-month moratoriums on building data centers, battery energy storage systems, and hydrogen energy facilities in unincorporated areas, but some of these sorts of operations went in before the government acted, and commissioners will let them continue while the new technologies are studied for possible regulation or prevention.