Sliver Haired Legislature forwarding six resolutions to state The Kansas Silver Haired Legislature held their 40th Annual Session in Topeka in October, meeting in person for the first time in three years. The high point of the three-day conference is the Wednesday activity at the State Capitol.
By Chad Frey Newton Kansan There’s a special production coming to Athletic Park this weekend “Umbrella Acts” will take to the band shell stage. The production, created entirely by the Dama 2 class of Newton High School, will take a look at tough topics and be on stage rain or shine at 3 p.m.
Early voting in the 2022 general election will begin on Oct. 25 at the Harvey County Courthouse. As political ads have filled the airways for the state governor’s race, there are really only a pair of local races of note.
The library isn’t just for readers at least not for this month. Newton Public Library is reaching out to aspiring authors during National Novel Writing Month.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Attorneys for six Republican-led states are asking a federal appeals court to reconsider their effort to block the Biden administration’s program to forgive hundreds of millions of dollars in student loan debt.
An agency charged with conserving groundwater in arid western Kansas plans to truck thousands of gallons of water from the Missouri River nearly 400 miles almost to the Colorado border. Half of the 6,000 gallons drawn from the river will be poured onto a property in Wichita County. The other half will be taken into Colorado.
MANHATTAN, Kan. – A Kansas State University agricultural economist says a push by some international companies to promote sustainable farming practices in Brazil’s Amazon region is helping to slow down the rate at which climate-friendly forests are cut down.
Times Square, New York City. An image appears on the Nasdaq billboard overhead.
A Kansas Humanities Council speaker will discuss historical commercial specialty crops, agriculture experimentation, horticultural marketing, and the evolving local foods movement during Bethel College Life Enrichment on Oct. 27.
Ensemble 4.1, which claims to be the only “piano windtet” in the world, will bring their music to Sunflower Performing Artsat 7 p.m. Oct.