KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The bubble held for the Bethel College men’s basketball team, which received a berth in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics National Championships for the third straight year.
One Newton resident got a letter from the city asking about the plumbing in their home, and their response was a call to the mayor. “I did already have a call from a disgruntled resident,” said Mayor Leroy Koehn.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
A project to repair collapsed river banks in Harvey County East and West Parks has suffered some starts and stops, with the latest stoppage leading the county to ask questions as to just how the project can move forward.
Harvey County residents should have received a notice from the county appraiser’s office this week listing new tax values for property. Values that quite likely went up - and some quite significantly.
Bethel sweeps CCC The Bethel College softball team claimed a pair of wins over Central Christian College Wednesday at Wedel Field. Bethel won the first game 5-1 and the second game 3-2.