County property evaluation compliance investigated
Terri Scott, who is a currently unopposed candidate for a county commission seat, listened to a discussion of property assessments with great interest a week ago.
Chad Frey
Upcoming meeting schedule
Newton USD373 will host two meetings designed to improve services for Spanish speaking students and families.
HCTalk March 8
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City plans system outage for software update
The City of Newton’s accounting system will be down March 12-13 while the city completes a software migration. City staff will not be able to… Login to continue reading Login Sign up for complimentary access Sign Up Now Close
Walton school moves one step closer to sale
The conversation of what to do with the now closed Walton Elementary School morphed into two conversations this week – as the board of education took up whether or not a park that sits next to the school should be returned to the city of Walton.
First-ever entrepreneurship contest hosted at Meridian Center
Newton High School and Jag-K students Andrea Medina and Amiyah Beard have spent the past few weeks creating a new business venture, one that got its first public exposure March 6 during a special trade show.They did so for the first-ever Youth Entrepreneurship Competition in Newton, hosted by the Newton Area Chamber of Commerce in partnership with Network Kansas at the Meridian Center on March 6.
Pouch files for commission seat
Kevin Pouch, a former Newton city commissioner, officially filed for District 3 Harvey County Commissioner.He was first elected to the Newton city commission in 2009, finishing third in that election and earning a two-year term.He brings decades of experience in cancer care, oncology sales, business ownership, and community service.Pouch is a self described “constitutional conservative, patriot, and advocate for traditional values, Pouch commits to being fiscally responsible while maintaining essential county services, all the while valuing a smaller government and appreciating individual liberties.”His community involvement includes roles in the Harvey County Citizen Advisory Board, co-owner of the Newton Rebels Summer Collegiate Baseball Team and is an active member of the Newton Lions Club.“I stand for constitutional principles and pledge to limit government, support individual liberty, and free enterprise as a Harvey County Commissioner,” Pouch wrote in a news release.
When time is money, “Dynamic Pricing” makes everything cheaper
Wendy’s ran into a wall of popular resistance with the mid-February release of its “earnings call” transcript for the fourth quarter of 2023.
Plains Folk: The Kansas Girl
Sure enough, on the first day of Women’s History Month (March), I came across this ballad from 1889: “The Kansas Girl.”A sunflower maid from an upland farmBlithsome and fanciful, plump of armIn five stanzas of five lines each, the poet pretty well captures the young man’s fancy of the Kansas girl’s virtues.
Kansans must be as relentless in preserving voting rights as extremists are at attacking them
Many historians liken the current societal tumult in the nation to what was happening across the country in the 1850s.Sectional tensions tore at the nation’s fabric.