Each year one of the most contentious issues the Newton City Commission must tackle is fireworks sale and discharge rules. The tough questions they have to answer include when tents can open, and when people can fire off their flaming balls of celebration.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) ] released the following statement following President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address: “The state of our Union is sobering – we are up against the highest inflation in 40 years, record gas prices, surging violent crime, an historic number of migrants illegally crossing our southern border and alarming instability abroad.
The Kansas Legislature has returned! You’d be forgiven for not knowing it was gone in the first place, but the House and Senate took most of a week off after turnaround. That’s the (largely hypothetical) date when each chamber finishes work on its bills and sends the legislation to the other chamber.
These last few weeks, teachers across the country are again being commanded to set aside their lessons and begin teaching to the state assessments. This interference with teacher professionalism has been going on for over two decades, accelerated by No Child Left Behind and surviving under E.S.S.A. accountability. Look at last year’s tests and drill into each student’s head the answers in order to score higher on this year’s assessment. As a result, state assessment scores go up while national aptitude tests and other measures of student creativity continue to drop. International assessments show the United States descending into the level of undeveloped nations.
The Bethel College men’s basketball team will return to the scene of its biggest triumphs Friday and March 12 for the first two rounds of the NAIA Championships. The Threshers will face Briar Cliff at 8 p.m.
March 5 through March 13, All times Central NOTE: All competitions are subject to change. Check with www.
NICKERSON – The Hesston High School boys’ basketball team did what not too many teams have been able to do in the past few decades, blow out Wichita Collegiate. The Swathers stopped Collegiate 57-27 Thursday in the semifinals of the Class 3A sub-state tournament in Nickerson.
The Bethel College softball team claimed a twinbill split with Bacone College Tuesday at Allen Jantz Field. Bethel dropped the first game 4-2 and won the nightcap 8-0.
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