With vegetable gardening comes insect issues. Sometimes bug problems are high and sometimes they are low, depending on the year. One thing is for certain, squash bugs always find me! Squash bugs are a devastating pest that uses its piercing-sucking mouthparts to feed on many varieties of cucurbits including squash, pumpkin, watermelon and cantaloupe. Damage from these pests can cause wilt and even death to the host plant.
Editor’s Note: Gloria is taking a deserved week off this week to enjoy some summer with her children, so this week we step into the “way back machine” to visit June 2015 as Gloria writes about Father’s Day, years before her husband tragically passed away
A new Father’s Day tradition for Newton started on June 15, a car show. For some who brought their rides to the show in the 1200 block of North Main the location was familiar, as they spend every Friday night in the front of the North Dillons Parking Lot for a small car show.
Presided over Robert Palmer as “Sand Creek Charlie” for the 2025, the Sand Creek Summer Daze Festvial is set to return this week.
An already water-logged Harvey County picked up more rain this week, with thunderstorms sweeping through the area on June 14.
Newton Youth Theater started its third annual summer camp with opening day practices June 16 at Grace Community Church.
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The Board of Directors of the Harvey-Marion County Developmental Disability Organization (HMCDDO) will hold its regular monthly meeting on at 4 p.m. June 16 in the HMCDDO office, 500 N. Main, Suite 204.
Every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at Spring Clean Laundry in west Wichita, volunteers from local churches set up tables and hand out piles of quarters to anyone who needs help — no questions asked.
When an agenda item came up at the Newton City Commission this week, marked “Consider an Engineering Agreement with Garver for East 1st Street paving improvement design from Spencer to Oliver” there was very little discussion before a motion to approve the agreement was passed on a 5-0 vote.