Normalcy is welcome in day-to-day life
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now • Pandemic, Day 1, Thursday, March 19, first day of spring—Social distancing. They decided at Newton Now to close……
Read MoreOpinion
Our local leaders can save lives: here’s how
You don’t refuse to call 911 as smoke flows under the door because the fire might put itself out. You take action. A fire…
Read More
How to spend your time when social distancing
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now These past few days have been like some disaster movies I’ve seen—people locking down, a scary illness going around……
Read More
Spring cleaning starting a little early
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now Happy Marie Kondo season. Marie Kondo is the tiniest little Japanese woman, who is an organizing and tidying expert…….
Read More
Wash your hands: Keeping influenza at bay
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now This past weekend, the weekend of Feb. 1, was a bit of a blur for me. It started out……
Read More
Tina Payne will be hard to replace
I spend a lot of time building relationships in my job. “Source building” would be the most clinical and professional way to describe it…….
Read More
Mennonite Housing decision a start
Now that’s the kind of thinking we should apply to every project and development in Newton. The Newton City Commission received a large ask…
Read More
Adults can have fun, just like kids
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now This past weekend, my son Rodger and I had our first official 4-H ceramics meeting at The Phoenix Originals……
Read More
Oh shoe tree, we barely knew thee
I rarely regret writing an article, but I have two in my time in Harvey County. The first involves a peacock named Lenny, who……
Read More
Newest Star Wars movie is great entertainment
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now Even though I was sick on Saturday with an evil cold, my son wanted to watch the latest Star……
Read More