Through the lens: Summer Daze kickball
by Kansan StaffThis year the official kick-off of the Sand Creek Summer Daze festival was a kickball game - a challenge between area fire and police departments.
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County eyeing mill levy increase
The county commission will consider setting a maximum tax rate for the 2025 budget, one that would be an increase to taxpayers countywide.
County commission to meet
The Board of Harvey County Commissioners will meet for a regular meeting at 9 a.m.
Camping at the gallery
This summer the Carriage Factory Gallery is hosting a pair of art camps, the first was this week for children age 5 through 8.
City budget discussion a bit different than recent past
This budget season the discussion is much different for the Newton City Commission - in that the commission is not talking about raising the mill levy.
Kansas traffic fatalities trend downward after seven years averaging more than 420 deaths
TOPEKA — The number of traffic deaths on Kansas backroads, streets and highways increased in the decade from 2013 to 2023 despite three consecutive annual reductions that cut fatalities below 400 for the first time since 2015.State and federal transportation reports and an assessment by TRIP, a nonprofit organization researching and distributing data on transportation issues, said traffic fatalities in Kansas expanded 11% during the 10-year period.
Nicodemus descendants preserve history of former slaves’ quest for freedom in Kansas
LAWRENCE — Fifth-generation Nicodemus descendant Angela Bates draws inspiration from carrying forward the history of people who left the South in the 1870s to establish a town in rural Kansas where they might move closer to the promise of freedom.Bates, who was raised in California by parents born in Nicodemus, eventually relocated to Kansas, formed the Nicodemus Historical Society and campaigned to preserve the documentary history of a town that had gradually fallen on hard economic times.
BOE moves policy manual forward
After listening to about 20 minutes of debate about a group meeting to create an operations manual for the Newton USD 373 Board of Education, Ian Long was ready to move on.“This sounds like this committee has already go the people that it needs on it.