From Newton to Mardi Gras
Drums, xylophone, piano keys and a tambourine played an old-fashioned melody that drifted on the warm fall air at Mike Hanchett?s shop in Newton…
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Holiday Family Affair
On a wall at the Newton Performing Arts Center is a painted ?Dance is the only art where we are the paintbrushes.? With that…
Cooking up funds for the United Way
Downtown Newton is adrift with a variety of food smells at various times of the day and year. Some days, downtown smells like peppernuts,…
Fox Theatre: A phoenix rising from the celluloid ashes
Newton native Barb Burns has fond memories of the Fox Theatre in downtown Newton from when she was growing up ? recollections of cinematic…
A guiding light
Bonnie Sowers, as well as Hesston College nursing program faculty and staff, have managed to do something rarely seen on college campuses these days…
Things that go bump in the night
Thunder rolled through the night air, mimicking the sound of a bass drum as lightning lit up the eerily dark historic Carnegie Library during…
A good, positive life
Jean Hicks seems to take life as it comes, and a saying with that idea in mind is one she thought might make good…
Tools of the trade
To some, he?s known as Mr. Johnson, to others, he?s Dad, and to many, he?s just called Evan. Whatever folks call him, the fact…
In Stitches
Charlotte Wolfe is surrounded by bolts of creativity at her quilt shop in downtown Newton. This creativity comes from within Wolfe herself and from…
Rhythm and Blues
Just by looking at April May Webb as she?s running groceries through the scanner at North Dillons in Newton, patrons can tell she?s happy…