News Staff If you drive along US 77 today near Ark City and spot a cow or several of them along the road, there’s a reason why. A rig carrying cattle rolled over early Tuesday on the interstate, north of the city, disrupting traffic and leaving some cattle wandering around. Other cows were stuck inside the trailer … Read more
Classes at Arkansas City High School will be dismissed at 11:30 a.m. Thursday to allow students, faculty and staff members to attend funeral services for Rhett Lathers. Funeral services will take place for 1 p.m. at the Brown Center on the Cowley College Campus, followed by the burial at Hope Cemetery. All other schools within … Read more
They say it was a team decision. The Ark City High School football team won’t play McPherson Friday night in the opening round of playoffs. On Tuesday, Rhett Lathers, a lineback and tailback on the team was killed in a rollover crash that also left another teen in intenstive care. A third student, an ACHS … Read more
Two new cases of COVID-19 will mean ten days of quarantine for two classrooms of students at Lowell Elementary School The quarantine means students, teachers and staff in the affected classrooms will be able to remain in school during the 10 days of the quarantine. During that time, the district will have to test each … Read more
Last spring a call went out from the National Park Service through the National Writing Project for their teacher-consultants who were interested to put in an idea for an inspirational video writing project that could be part of their upcoming “Write Out 2021: Palettes, Storyboards, and Cadences.” Through this, Cowley College Humanities and Communication Chair … Read more
Sarah Mathews’ Managerial Accounting class recently toured KanPak, LLC in Arkansas City and were able to relate class material to the real world. In Managerial Accounting, students learn accounting from the perspective of a manufacturing company and study how the physical flow of the production process follows and matches the cost flow. Thanks to the … Read more
With more employers expressing interest in testing their workforce for SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – KDHE developed an Employer COVID-19 Testing Playbook. The Playbook is intended to support businesses that wish to offer employee testing to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks in their workplace and help keep their businesses open. Just as schools in … Read more
Governor Laura Kelly announced Kansas has been awarded $3,980,635 through the FY 2021 American Rescue Plan Act administered by the Federal Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) at the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) to support survivors of domestic violence and their children and expand COVID-19 resources. The purpose of these supplemental funds is … Read more
The Cowley College Concert Band and Concert Choir took to the Robert Brown Theatre stage to perform a beautiful concert Tuesday in Arkansas City. The Concert Band, under the direction of Dr. Michael Christensen, performed Legends of the Galaxy, Abracadabra, Hocus Pocus, and Gravity Wave. The Concert Choir, under the direction of Lindsay Allen, performed … Read more
A senior at Ark City High School died in a wreck in Kay County, Oklahoma, on Tuesday night. ctnewsonline.com says the student who died was in a Jeep that rolled over on a gravel road, several miles northeast of Newkirk. There were four occupants in the vehicle. The driver of the vehicle was arrested on … Read more