“Fiber and Clay”, a new exhibit featuring four artists, opens Saturday May 20 at Carriage Factory Art Gallery. The four artists include Eden Quispe, Kammy Downs, Kris Luber, and Wendell Donaldson. The opening reception will be from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the gallery.
In the end, the city commission chose to not make any changes to animal ordinances in Newton - meaning that Ginger, and emotional support pig for nine-year-old Owen Grigoreva, will need to find a new home.
What does youth fentanyl overdose look like? In Sedgwick County it often looks like parents finding their teenager dead in bed — or a toddler dead on the floor, fentanyl pills scattered next to him.
MANHATTAN — For people, there is nothing like the taste of vegetables straight from the garden. And in the case of beef cattle, they prefer to dine on certain grasses in a pasture, according to the experts at the Kansas State University Beef Cattle Institute.
TOPEKA — Rep. Sean Tarwater spoke bluntly on behalf of fellow legislators and other government employees in Kansas about comparative financial shortcomings of the state retirement option created a decade ago when the state was mired in massive budget problems.
Several organzations have teamed up to create a Mother’s Day event at the Midtown Arboretum in Newton on May 13. The 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.
School district shortens year The Newton USD 373 board of education made an adjustment to the school calendar, taking two days off the calendar later this month and shortening the school year. The district had not used any weather days, though did use two days following an internet security incident.
As Newton USD 373 walks through the process of shuttering Walton Rural Life Center, there are decisions needing made about not only the building - but the people who attend and teach class there. Some of those decisions, like the transferring of several teachers and the school principal to Northridge Elementary for next year, have already been made.
HESSTON — An audit of a small Mennonite college in rural Kansas has found systemic failings, with sexual abuse reporters pressured to meet their abusers faceto- face and “forgive and forget” the abuse.
The Newton Car Show took over downtown May 6, making use of warm temperatures to fill nearly every inch of downtown from Fifth through Eighth Streets - including a block of cross streets on either side of Main, with vehicles of all types from all eras.