Chad Frey

On a night with a light agenda for the Newton USD 373 Board of Education, the meeting lasted less than 30 minutes from start to finish, the board started fleshing out some details of a big meeting coming up in October.

The Newton City Commission will consider final approval of a rezoning request for property in the Kansas Logistics park as a project kicked off in 2021 continues to move forward.The zoning district amendment, as submitted by the applicants and property owner Louis Robelli of Murdock Properties LLC, would change the current I-2 (General Industrial District) to an I-3 (Heavy Industrial District).The property, located northwest of the intersection of Southeast 9th Street and South Hillside Road, is targeted for warehousing - which is one of the accepted uses under the I-2 zoning, among others..The rezoning was considered by the Planning Commission on Sept.

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TOPEKA — Kansans are uninsured at a rate higher than the rest of the country for a third-straight year, but the effects of Medicaid “unwinding” have yet to be seen, recent U.S.

Bethel College students fanned out across Newton and North Newton Sept.

CHERRYVALE — While this southeast Kansas town’s population peaked more than 100 years ago, the opening of the region’s largest ever economic development project means its best days are ahead, Lt.