The Arkansas City High School musical, Legally Blonde, is this weekend! Come see this extravagant, high-energy, hilarious show November 11-13 at 7:00 p.m., with a matinee on Saturday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $6 for students and $8 for adults.
Quick reminder that the USD 465 Board of Education meetings set for today (November 8th) and 22nd and December 13th will be held in the WHS Library, at 6:30 p.m.
Governor Laura Kelly appointed Richard Marquez, Garden City, to the 25th Judicial District vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Robert J. Frederick. District court judges in the 25th Judicial District are appointed by the governor and selected from nominees chosen by a district nominating commission. Judges in nominating commission districts are subject to retention … Read more
The City of Arkansas City will shift to a four-day sanitation schedule this week due to the closure of all City offices Thursday, Nov. 11 for Veterans Day. The Cowley County Landfill also will be closed Thursday for Veterans Day. The F Street Limb Disposal and Compost Site will be closed both Thursday, Nov. 11 … Read more
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