Editor’s Note: Gloria’s husband, Daniel, passed away three years ago, on April 4, in a tragic logging accident. She requested a column Daniel wrote be run this week in his honor. Daniel penned this column one year before he passed.
A project to reconstruct a runway at the Newton City/County Airport his a snag last month, one that the city and the county will try and untangle in the weeks ahead.
Only four months after completion in 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State collapsed. This new suspension bridge was based on what were presumed to be the full set of engineering requirements of the time, and was considered a state-of-the-art structure that had eliminated all possible risks. But unlike other bridges that served as models, this bridge was subjected to regular high winds. Suspended bridges experience “resonance,” a physics principle most of us encountered when we used a swing on a playground and additional pushes at the right time cause us to swing higher and higher.
16 months from now Kansans will vote on a state constitutional amendment that will, if passed, institute popular elections for state supreme court justices. This possibility disturbs many Kansans, and it’s worth trying to understand why.
Those of us who make our homes in the rural midwest understand that we face medical challenges our countrymen in more populated areas don’t. For example, there are two pediatric rheumatologists in the whole state of South Dakota. . . and they are both based in Fargo. In contrast, there are 10 in the Twin Cities with the University of Minnesota alone. In Winner South Dakota, you are nearly 150 miles away from emergency access to a neurosurgeon, assuming you can go by air. No matter where you are in Connecticut, that help is no more than 50 miles away.
Newton Kansan partner HC Talk will host a town hall with Harvey County Sheriff Chad Gay at 6:30 p.m. April 17 at Newton Public Library, 223 E. 7th.
The annual Student Art Exhibit at Bethel College is now open, featuring the work of 45 students in a variety of media.
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It costs about $75 a day to house an inmate at the Harvey County Detention Center, a facility that county sheriff Chad Gay labeled as a money pit this week as he discussed revenue losses stemming from a reduction in the number of federally contracted inmates being housed at the facility in 2024.
The Bluestem U lifelong learning program at Bluestem Communities will offer a class on support of birds and birding on Tuesdays from April 15 to… Login to continue reading Login Sign up for complimentary access Sign Up Now Close