In 1879 there arrived a mutual aid company of homesteaders from Zanesville, Ohio, to disembark at the ATSF depot in Dodge City. From there they streamed out to claims in Meade County around a little community they called Pearlette. The historian Bob Haywood has chronicled their settlement.
NBA Basketball 6:30 p.m. on ESPN Big market teams are the order of the evening on tonight’s NBA doubleheader, which tips off at United Center, where DeMar DeRozan and the Chicago Bulls defend home court from Julius Randle and the New York Knicks in a clash of East rivals.
Ghosts 7 p.m. on KWCH When Jay’s (Utkarsh Ambudkar) sister Bela (Punam Patel) returns to Woodstone Mansion for a holiday visit and brings a platonic male friend, Samantha (Rose McIver) — inspired by the holiday rom-coms she adores — makes it her mission to spark a holiday romance between them.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) Practice caution around clamorous people. Talk is cheap; wait and watch to see what transpires. Don’t get left to do the work alone. Protect your assets and your sanity.
Dear Doctors: Is there a treatment for psoriatic arthritis that doesn’t carry the risk of lymphoma or other cancers? I have this kind of arthritis, and it is very painful. However, I don’t want to jump from the frying pan into the fire with a treatment that is going to give me a more dangerous disease.
‘Lighting of the Green’ this weekend The Lighting of the Green at Bethel College is an annual tradition dating back to 1986. The 2022 event will be at 8 p.m.
It was a fairly short ceremony about 10 minutes - at city hall on Dec. 8, the last vestages of a year-long celebration for the city of Newton.
Andrea Nell Sharp, 37, beloved daughter, sister and friend, passed away Monday, December 5, 2022, after a long illness. She was born to Gene and Janice Sharp of Valley Center, KS, on April 27, 1985, and attended Valley Center schools, Newton Christian High School (Class of 2003), Butler Community College and Friends University.
A good community The other day I dropped a tote bag near the post office. It contained papers I had prepared for visiting a new physician — including absolutely all of my identification information except my shoe size.
Monday was a gut-punch of a day, a day this community will recover from but one that will leave a lasting scar. Over the course of just a few hours the community lost an estimated 450 jobs - and an additional 140 were put at risk.