Newton BOE at least has right idea with bond issue. Figure out the amount the community will support paying. Then, design the bond issue to address the most important priorities while staying in such ...

I’m just about tired of writing about the Old Dillons building. I think I’ve penned at least 10 articles about the property at 320 N. Main over the years and when it would be torn down. It’s ugly.

By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—With the Fourth of July next week, large tents have popped up all over Newton and other parts of Harvey County. For just a few dollars, the dreams of young ...

At least 100 people turned out to join the protest on U.S. Highway 50 stretching from the west to east coasts on Saturday, and area people joined the Trump protest in Harvey County on the highway. At ...

By Rusty Whitcher HARVEY COUNTY- Just thinking about them can give people the sensation of itching and there are a lot of urban legends about these common summer pests. They are a parasitic mite more ...

By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—A group called the White Caps wrote notices to people in red ink, which was thought to be blood, with skulls and crossbones on their stationery to anyone they ...

by Bill Bush HALSTEAD—As they have since the 1980s, Sam Griffin and Ron Auernheimer are setting up the Halstead Lion’s Club fireworks stand at 216 Main Street. Griffin and Auernheimer handle the ...

By Adam Strunk A group opposed to a possible battery energy storage system has submitted a petition to force a vote on an ordinance banning certain kinds of the technology within the City of Halstead.

Dorothy I. (Dudte) Unruh, 103, passed away under hospice care on June 19, 2025, at a Paramount Community Living and Rehab Greenhouse Unit in Newton, Kansas. Dorothy was born on Sept. 12, 1921, to Anna ...

Patrick C. Breckunitch, 70, died June 21, 2025, at Clearwater Health and Rehab in Clearwater, Kansas. Memorial Mass will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 3, 2025, at Holy Savior Catholic Church in Wichita ...

Vere Edward English, 92, went to be with the Lord on May 30, 2025. He was born March 14, 1933, in Newton to parents David and Velma Jean English. He grew up on a farm north of Newton and graduated ...

Anne Elaine Muse (Aug. 12, 1935 – June 12, 2025) Anne Muse was born Aug. 12, 1935, to Earl and Myrtle (Hobbs) Campbell in Hutchinson, Kansas. They lived on a farm between Burrton and Mount Hope, ...