Baxter Community School District has a new school resource officer starting this year, and he brings with him extensive ...

Members of The Vernon Company sales team attended the ASI Show Chicago in July. During the awards ceremony, Vernon was named ...

Lynnville-Sully junior Tatum Huyser, left, placed sixth in the Class 1A 200-meter dash at the state track and field meet last weekend. (Troy Hyde/Newton News) DES MOINES — Lynnville-Sully ...

ONE YEAR LATER: Jasper County Health Department recalls what life and work has been like in a pandemic Working in public health during COVID-19 ‘has never been busier or more stressful’ By ...

A PAC-MAN super fan from Newton said she was stunned to learn she’d won the grand prize in the Iowa Lottery’s “PAC-MAN Second Chance” promotion. “I was just flabbergasted, I was blown ...

Peck Child Development Center Inc. announces their sponsorship of the Child and Adult Care Food Program.

Former Jasper County Board of Health member Margot Voshell was honored for her 12 years of service to the county at the January board meeting. Voshell, who served as the board chair during most of ...

Reserve your seat at the easel and join artist Kirsten Warrick for a watercolor landscape painting class. Call the Newton ...

Water rate increases were approved by the Newton City Council this past week, and they will go into effect July 1. (Christopher Braunschweig) Water bills will be increasing for property owners in ...

The American Legion of Iowa Foundation presented Jasper County RSVP with a check for $1,600 to be put toward the Jasper ...

COLFAX — The Colfax-Mingo boys track and field team scored in all 19 events during its home meet on Tuesday night. Sullivan Wilkins and Xavier Woods both were part of three wins and each had a ...

America treats its politicians like the kid in that old Seinfeld episode, “The Bubble Boy” -- isolated and coddled lest ...