Swathers to face Colby Thursday in first round of state By Mark Schnabel Newton Kansan LYONS — In a game perhaps better suited for next… Login to continue reading Login Sign up for complimentary access Sign Up Now Close
An eight foot tall tomato plant? It sounds like a gardener s dream, but one innovative young rural Kansas couple is making it become reality using a gardening technique known as hydroponics. Samuel and MaryAnn Beachy are the founders and owners of Beachy s Flowers and Produce.
LYONS — The Halstead Dragon girls’ basketball team was looking at a prime upset opportunity for about 19 minutes against top-seeded Cheney, but the Cardinals rallied back for a 52-41 win Thursday in the Class 3A substate semifinals in Lyons. Cheney, 19-2, advances to the finals at 5:30 p.m.
Work to renovate Lindley Hall and Santa Fe 5/6 Center could get started as early as March 8, as this week the Newton USD 373 Board of Education approved the first of three bid packages for the project.
The 2023 session is moving fast and we are at the next step in the process which is turn around. This is when all the bills that passed in each chamber will now be discussed and scrutinized in the opposite chamber.
Each month I want to provide you with regular updates about what’s going on in our nation’s capital and throughout the 4th District of Kansas. Here’s what happened in February.
The BOE was clumsy I went to the school board meeting Monday to speak my piece regarding the potential closing of Walton, but ended up focused on the uproar over a vaping wrestler. As I understand this, the wrestler dumped his girlfriend for reasons unknown; the wrestler chose to flaunt rules and law by vaping on school property and was filmed in so doing; the wrestler qualified for the State Championship Match; the jilted girlfriend and her mother then shared the vaping video on-line, not with the school; the school needed to uphold a code of conduct to which the wrestler had previously agreed, but also wanted to protect him from the consequences of what was clearly on-line bullying; some school board members called for a special meeting of debatable legitimacy to evaluate this mess and attempted to adjust policy to allow management to somehow deal with an unwinnable matter; word then went through the community that the school system was trying to grant an athlete special privilege to enhance our chances at State, which was how this was first presented to me and, I’m sorry to say, was my first reaction.
It feels just like yesterday, because of how fast time moves when there is no time in the day to slow down and breathe, that we launched a new project. A project that has deadlines approaching quite rapidly.
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NWS to issue tornado warning test In observance of Severe Weather Preparedness Week, the National Weather Service will issue a test tornado drill at 10 a.m. March 7 across the state of Kansas.