By Pat MelgaresK-State Research and Extension news service K-State economist forecasts slight bump for Kansas farmers MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas farmers seem to be positioned… Login to continue reading Login Sign up for complimentary access Sign Up Now Close
Married to Adventure: Osa and Martin Johnson’s Films will be at Newton Public Library at 6:30 p.m.
Sand Creek Summer Daze will cap off quit a week for the community of Newton, a week punctuated by competition.That week touched off with the 76th annual Mexican-American Fastpitch Softball Tournament before turning to the U.S.G.A.
Katie Schmidt is no stranger to the stage, the 2011 NHS graduate participated in plays as a Railer, and later as a Thresher during her Bethel College career.
Mike Fellows was really not expecting the phone call he received from city hall – it was a shock to him to learn he and his wife’s yard had been named the 2024 Yard of the Year.He told The Kansan neither he or his wife had any knowledge of who might have nominated them for the award.“When we got the phone call we were surprised as all heck.
Hazel Spielman, who served as a crossing guard for about 35 years and became well known in the community for her work, passed away on July 4.Spielman was nominated for a national crossing guard of the year award in 2018, just missing a top five finish in the public voting online.She was stationed at Chisholm Middle School and Slate Creek, watching over the First Street crossing near Shalom Mennonite Church.She started serving as a crossing guard in February of 1989.“It is here, and it is my job,” Spielman told The Kansan in 2018.
“Who runs the country?”I’ve been hearing variants of that question a lot over the last few weeks, mainly in forms like “given Joe Biden’s age and apparent mental decline, can we trust him to run the country for another four years?”For the last eight or nine years, I’ve also heard it a lot, in slightly different forms, about Donald Trump.I visited Google Trends to find out if I’m just imagining increased frequency of that annoying question.
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I’ve seen a few glaciers in my life, once years ago on a trip with our young family when we drove through Glacier National Park and a couple more a few years ago when my son and I made a journey to Kyrgystan, a mountainous country in central Asia.
The Newton city commission voted July 9 to notify the county clerk of the city’s intent to exceed the “revenue neutral rate” for the next budget year – meaning that the final budget for 2025 will spend more money than the previous year.The commission capped the final budget mill levy rate at the current rate of 72.361.“That is the maximum we can go up to.