Harvey County Now

12/19/2024

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Hey everybody. Can't believe it's almost Christmas and we haven't even had a snow yet. This afternoon, I drove by a part of Sand Creek, stopped, walked down to the creek and shot some photos. This is one of them! I liked the way the sun lit up the plants. Until next week, don't get too stressed about the holidays!

12/14/2024

Wedel home sets West 17th aglow.

By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—At least 12,600 Christmas lights break into the darkness at Don and Diana Wedel's home in Newton. That doesn't include the glowing yard ornaments, like the nativity scene at the back of the front yard and the Christmas train and North Pole mailbox towa

12/14/2024

Local school district reports bus incident.

By Harvey County Now staff NEWTON—Reports are circulating on Facebook today about children being let off a USD 373 bus all at once this afternoon. There also is a photo of children walking in a field with a school bus nearby saying these are the children let off the bus. "There was an incid

12/13/2024

Friends, colleagues remember Kurt Friesen.

By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NORTH NEWTON—The late Kurt Friesen had a soft spot in his heart for cats. That's according to Friesen's former neighbor, Will Wiebe-Friesen of North Newton. "One cat, Faye, would ride on his shoulder like a parrot while he worked outside or walked down the sid

12/13/2024

Newton High School grad helps man about who a movie star wants to do a motion picture about.

By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NORTH NEWTON—Former Newton and North Newton resident Angela Loucks Alexander, now of Australia, has one degree of separation from movie star Channing Tatum through a documentary she co-created called "Between Two Ears." The documentary explores the connection

12/13/2024

Our series on the Career and Technical Education pathways continues this week with the Agriculture pathway.

By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—Newton High School greenhouse managers Tori Aarons and Izabella Hinojos both find taking care of plants to be therapeutic. The NHS juniors are in Horticulture II, which involves them being greenhouse managers. They both took Horticulture I last year and

12/13/2024

Newton HIgh School Robotics team having fundraiser this year and has a lot more members.

By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—RaileRobotics students who "drove" the robot this past Saturday wore train engineer hats in keeping with the Railer theme. They drove the robot from last year to perform various moves required for last year's game the robot needed to learn. This was befo

12/12/2024

Newton City Council honors the late Kurt Friesen during regular monthly meeting.

By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NORTH NEWTON—North Newton Mayor Ron Ratzlaff asked all those at the Monday night regular city council meeting to observe a moment of silence in honor of Kurt Friesen, who passed away recently. Friesen was a member of the North Newton City Council and was at l

12/11/2024

Merry December! I shot this in Lindsborg during the weekend. It’s an old bridge lit up with holiday lights! Wendy Nugent out!

12/07/2024

There’s plenty to do in Newton and our surrounding communities this weekend. Plus it’s sausage making time at the ol’ Stunk Farm.

Also shout out and thanks to Peoples Bank and Trust in Newton and our friends at Choose Newton.

We welcome you to subscribe for your Friday dose of fun, laughter and good cheer.

Ohhh what beery Friday mess.

12/06/2024

Newton woman nominated for Wichita acting award.

By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—Newton resident Chelsie Penner's grandparents met on the set of the 1955 movie "Picnic," part of which was filmed in Halstead. "Neither of them are with us anymore, so I have no one to indulge in the story with fully," Penner said. She said she's as

12/06/2024

Newton Lions Club Parade of Lights draws lots of viewers, participants.

The annual Newton Lions Club Parade of Lights was Thursday night, Dec. 5, in downtown Newton. Thousands of people attended the event.

12/06/2024

Parade of Lights was in downtown Newton tonight! Lots of people!

12/06/2024

Walton restaurant owner gets help from community when they're busy.

By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now WALTON—The Station House owner Patty Kreier of Walton said when she and her partner, Diane Branning, first started their restaurant business, The Station House & Grocery, in Walton in June 1987, they were "young and dumb," and then when they reopened it in F

12/05/2024

Rural Newton woman to sell quilling items at Holiday Market on Saturday at Kidron Bethel Village in North Newton.

By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NORTH NEWTON—Rural Newton resident Karen Andres one day went over to the house of a lady who did quilling and became inspired. "I was a pastor at Tabor Mennonite Church in Newton, and an elderly lady did this," Andres said. "I was so enamored with it. It was th

12/05/2024

Local 12-year-old invents game when she was 5 years old.

By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—When Jeff Pritchett of Newton noticed his daughter, Chloe, had 50 sticky notes all over the living room floor, she told him she made a game. He said to her, "It's like another game. It's called pick up the sticky notes." "The game would not exist if not

12/05/2024

Photos of the week! Drove around tonight and took some Christmas decoration pics in Newton. Until next week, please be safe out there! Wendy Nugent out!

12/04/2024

Local siblings share their musical talent in the area.

By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—Parents and schooling influenced the musical group called The Schrag Siblings out of Newton/North Newton. That's according to one of the siblings, Jacob Schrag, who is a twin with brother Timothy Schrag and brother to the other group member, Julianna Kau