Two all-league players return for Remington By Mark Schnabel Newton Kansan BRAINERD — The Remington Bronco softball team will have six starters returning to try… Login to continue reading Login Sign up for complimentary access Sign Up Now Close
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Kansas coach Bill Self missed the defending national champion’s first-round NCAA Tournament game against Howard, a 96-68 victory by the Jayhawks on Thursday. Assistant coach Norm Roberts served as acting head coach with Self continuing to recover from a heart procedure performed last week.
Bring up wildfires and the mind likely thinks of the hot, dry post-harvest days of July and August. But the threat of grass and wildfires in March is very, very real.
Anyone familiar with the plotline of the musical, Oklahoma, is aware of the possibilities for intrigue inherent in that favorite social custom of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the box social, or basket social. With the ladies of the community preparing basket suppers, and the gentlemen bidding for the baskets and the company of the preparers, the possibilities were endless.
Virginia Mae (Watson) Malanowski, 101, resident of Newton, Kansas since 2006, passed away on March 9, 2023, at her home. Virginia was born on March 12, 1921in Pleasantville, PA to the late Maxwell Watson and Mary Belle (Sharp) Watson. She married Oddie Malanowski on February 26, 1944 in Pleasantville, PA, and he preceded her in death on September 24, 2001 after 58 years of marriage. Following her graduation from Pleasantville High School in 1939, where she played basketball and sang in operettas for the Glee Club, Virginia chose to attend Moody Bible Institute in Chicago where she sang on the radio station, ministered to patients at Cook County Hospital and taught child evangelism classes. Virginia graduated from Moody in December of 1943. In 1948, four years after her marriage, Virginia and her husband, Oddie, entered the First Primitive Methodist Conference beginning a 53 year time of service for the Lord. In their ministries, she taught Bible classes, directed daily vacation Bible schools, planned programs for Christmas, Easter, and other special days, taught junior church, and sang in church and community choirs. While serving with her husband in New England, Virginia taught elementary grades at Fall Rivers Christian School and worked with her husband and with the Boy Scouts teaching God and Country classes. Birginia enjoyed so much caring for missionaries who were at home on furlough. Since the death of her husband in 2001, Virginia made her home with her daughter, Mary Ann Tareila and her husband Pastor Terry Tareila, in Newton, Kansas. While living there she enjoyed neighborhood Bible classes and the friendships of neighbors and members of the First Baptist Church and New Life Assembly of God Church. Virginia was preceded in death by her parents; her step mother, June Watson; her husband, Oddie; a son, Pastor David Malanowski; an infant brother, Wayne Watson; and two sisters, Betty Sterling and Martha Lewandowski. Surviving Virginia is a daughter, Mary Ann Ta
HESSTON — The Hesston College baseball team won three out of four games in a weekend series against Labette Community College. Friday in Iola, Hesston won the first game 8-6 and lost the second game 14-7.
On March 14, a Russian SU-27 fighter brought down a US MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea. The exact details of where and how remain a mystery even after the release of drone video showing what appears to be a dump of jet fuel onto the drone, but those details don’t matter much. The incident mainly serves as an excuse for more ratcheting up of US-Russian tensions around the war in Ukraine.
Now the Silicon Valley Bank has failed. As in 2008, we are warned other banks are “stressed.” Gee, who’d have thought? Interest rates were held near zero by the Fed for years, playing politics, driving money out of savings into the stock market.