he McPherson County Commission put six-month moratoriums on building data centers, battery energy storage systems, and hydrogen energy facilities in unincorporated areas, but some of these sorts of operations went in before the government acted, and commissioners will let them continue while the new technologies are studied for possible regulation or prevention.
Jesse Nathan, a poet whose voice rises from the Kansas prairie and reaches far beyond, has been named the winner of the 2025 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award in Poetry for his collection, Eggtooth. The $1,000 award will be presented on Friday, September 19, at 4 p.m. in Room 120 of the Plass Learning Resources Center (1731 Plass Ave) on the Washburn University campus just ahead of the annual Kansas Book Festival. Nathan will be present to give a reading from the book.
Aug. 26 the Newton City Commission wawarded a bid for demolition of 320 N. Main, a former Dillon’s Grocery store the city has owned for more than a decade with the intention of demolishing the building.
On Monday, Sept. 1, author registration will open for Newton Public Library’s first-ever Local Author Day.
Jesse Nathan, a poet whose voice rises from the Kansas prairie and reaches far beyond, has been named the winner of the 2025 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award in Poetry for his collection, Eggtooth. The $1,000 award will be presented on Friday, September 19, at 4 p.m. in Room 120 of the Plass Learning Resources Center (1731 Plass Ave) on the Washburn University campus just ahead of the annual Kansas Book Festival. Nathan will be present to give a reading from the book.
Whitney HodginCherryRoad Media Newton USD 373 Board of Education (BOE) President Melissa Schreiber, Vice President Ian Long, Mallory Morton, Dayna Steinmetz and Ericia Stevens were… Login to continue reading Login…
The smell of natural gas in an under construction housing development in Newton led to Harvey County Emergency Management to declare a state of disaster this week.
The Harvey County Commission approved a disaster declaration related to a gas leak incident at its regular meeting Tuesday morning.
TOPEKA — Kansas officials refused persistent demands from the federal government for access to residents’ personal data solely based on the legal responsibility to protect that data, a state leader says.
The Harvey County Commission approved Aug. 26 an agreement to purchase the building at 109/111 E. Seventh St. in Newton.