News Staff Arkansas City High School’s performance of Grease is happening on February 4 at 7 p.m., Feb. 6 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., and Feb. 7 at 2 p.m! A note on the district’s Facebook page says due to COVID-19 restrictions, Grease isn’t fully open to the public. Each cast/crew member is allowed three guests … Read more
USD 465 – Winfield has given an update to the WMS COVID exposure that was announced on January 30th. District staff has continued with additional contact tracing, and has communicated directly with those staff and students directly involved. Due to the number of staff involved with quarantining, WMS will remain on remote learning (level 3); … Read more
Ark City Schools remind, Starting today students in grades PreK-5 will begin attending school in-person four days per week with Wednesdays being remote learning days. Students in grades 6-12 will return to the A/B Hybrid Model and attend school in-person TWO days per week. Group A attends Monday and Tuesday while Group B will attend … Read more
The Arkansas City Police Department arrested an Arkansas City man Friday in connection with a homegrown methamphetamine lab endangering children. A release from the police department says Kevin Michael McKnown, 33, was arrested on suspicion of felony manufacturing of methamphetamine and four counts of aggravated child endangerment. Prior to Friday, Arkansas City police had been … Read more
The City-Cowley County Health Department says, they are excited to be in phase 2 of vaccine distribution. The agency said on Facebook, while we aren’t getting the amounts of vaccine we would need to vaccinate everyone in this group right now, we are working diligently to do as many as possible with the doses we … Read more
USD 470 – Arkansas City Public Schools announced that starting today, January 29th, the district will allow a maximum of four spectators per participant in an Arkansas City High School event. The district will follow AVCTL guidelines and not exceed 25 percent capacity at a venue. Arkansas City Middle School will maintain its current guidelines. … Read more
A note from the Winfield school district, for families at Winfield Early Learning Center. The district put on Facebook, on Wednesday they were notified that WELC staff may have had a COVID related exposure. They are in the process of conducting internal contact tracing regarding this exposure. Meanwhile, the WELC will be on remote learning … Read more
The USD 470 Early Literacy Initiative is making Ready Rosie available to all Cowley County residents. Ready Rosie is an early education tool designed for families with children ages birth through third grade. A release from the district says it provides caregivers with fun activities that are connected to specific,age-appropriate learning outcomes and helps families … Read more
USD 465 school district leaders this week agreed to work with the State Department of Health and Environment and Wichita State University to offer COVID-19 testing. District nurses will collect specimens in school buildings, and the labs at Wichita State will read the tests, and get the results back to the districts within 24 hours, … Read more
This week, the USD 470 Board of Education authorized the district to begin offering non-invasive BiNax Now COVID-19 testing in school buildings. A post on the district’s facebook page says these non-invasive tests are most accurate on days two through five of symptoms and will allow trained personnel to test symptomatic individuals at school – … Read more