MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Unvaccinated Minnesotans are 15 times more likely to require hospitalization for COVID-19 and 30 times more likely to die from the disease than unvaccinated residents, Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm said Wednesday.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court is considering a statewide court holiday on Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery.
DETROIT (AP) — Detroit police have arrested two people and recovered a gun in connection with the ambush slayings of a couple while sitting in a car with their child at a gas station.
MOOSE, Wyo. (AP) — Just nine months into 2021, northwestern Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park already has had its busiest year on record.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A federal appeals court dealt another blow to a lawsuit targeting Maine's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, resulting in an 11th-hour appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday.
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A 41-year-old man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a charge of first-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife while the two were visiting Vermont for their first wedding anniversary.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — After two weeks of mapmaking in open meeting rooms, North Carolina senators have presented some proposals to the public on how they might redraw congressional or state Senate district lines for the next decade.
Tests, homework, and assignments can be very time consuming. Students often need a place to work. Around Clay Center, Kansas there are some great places to go study. Here are a few:
Student Submission: Lillian McCann, 7th grader at CCCMS snapped this photo at the CCCMS vs Abilene game on Sept. 2. If you are a USD 379 student and would like to be a featured photographer, please send submissions to claycenterdispatch@gmail.com
Green Christian School Back to School Night
Pick up and Drop off tips for USD 379 Schools
Kansas Connections Academy Welcomes New and Returning Students for 2021-22 School Year
CCCMS school pantry looking for donations
Masks to be optional for students and staff at USD 379 schools
Clay County COVID-19 cases on the rise again
In communication with local health officials, USD-379 will continue to encourage but not require the use of masks during summer weights, team sessions, and camps at USD-379 facilities, CCCHS athletics director Greg Ferguson said in an e-mail to parents.
USD-379 will hold kindergarten round-up for the 2020-21 school year for Lincoln Elementary and Wakefield School on Thursday, July 30. Round-up for kindergartners will be held at 6 p.m. at the Lincoln Elementary gymnasium; and at Wakefield School, at 6 p.m.
Here’s what USD-379 students turning in laptops and iPads need to know before bringing them to check-in:
USD-379 has announced that Lincoln Elementary won’t be holding kindergarten roundup on April 23 and Wakefield School also won’t be holding kindergarten round-up as planned. Both schools will wait until the summer to see if we can host something similar or if we need to go another route. In…
Rhett Koppes at CCCHS and Jaden Tate at Wakefield School and Jonathan L. Terrell at Miltonvale High School and Emily Ann Myers at Linn High School have been named 2020 governor’s scholars. These students represent the top 1 percent of high school seniors.
USD-379 announced yesterday that they’ve put together five teams who are diligently working this to provide for students. Those teams include:
Elementary students at Wakefield School have been engaged in their learning, according to the principal’s report submitted to the USD-379 school board.
On Monday, the USD-379 hired Jessica Wietharn as a pre-school teacher at Lincoln Elementary, effective Aug. 1.
Lincoln Elementary recognizes that success in learning to read takes extra attention and intervention for some kids, which they accomplish through a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS).
Next year, USD-379 will be closer than ever to its goal of putting a device in the hands of every student with an action approved last night.
Last night the board gave final approval to spend $163,000 to replace and repair roofs -- some of which will be done this spring and the majority of which will be done over the summer.
CCCHS students found enough evidence to find John Gilbert, a farmer accused of murdering his wife and their children, guilty of the crime in a mock trial of the historic Clay County case on Monday.
The board heard a presentation from CCCMS teachers and principal Keith Hoffman on how the redesign effort is going there. Formal launch of redesign is expected to take place in June or July.
CCCHS drama students are taking on a difficult challenge by performing “real theater” for the spring production of “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams.
If you didn’t get a chance to see all the great things CCCHS students are doing since redesign started, here’s a couple more takeaways based on visiting stations at the museum, Common Ground and Java Junkies during the Tiger Showcase downtown last week:
The Tiger Forensics teams competed at Valley Heights Saturday, and once again every single competitor broke to finals in at least one event, with many in several events
In tackling redesign, Wakefield School is taking advantage of its unique set-up as a K-12 School to enhance learning opportunities for its students, principal Tom DeBauche and redesign co-pilot Jay Sleichter told those attending the joint site council meeting last week. The school has taken …
Tiger Speech and Drama students will present a ‘Tiger Night Showcase’ tonight at The Rex Theatre.
One of the more unusual In talking about how Clay Center Community Middle School has changed under redesign, principal Keith Hoffman told those at last night’s joint site council meeting that they first recognized that the needs of middle school student are different than those in elementary…
How Garfield Elementary has changed how it is teaching kids is such a success that students don’t want to leave when parents come at the end of the day to pick them up, Garfield Elementary instructor Jeff Edwards, a co-pilot on the school’s re-design team, told community members serving on s…
The 2020 Senior Class Mock Trial will be held on March 9th at the Clay County Court House.
On Monday, the USD-379 school board hired a couple of driver ed. teachers, a couple of substitutes and two others.
The district is planning to offer an all-day preschool option in an effort to reach more kids in most need of it.
Lincoln Elementary parent/ teacher conferences will take place March 9 and 12 from 4 to 8 p.m.
Counselors remind parents of the Class of 2020 that important dates are coming up for scholarships and graduation:
USD-379, USD-334 Parents As Teachers, Infant/Toddler Services, Early Head Start the Clay County Health Department and the Twin Lakes Education Cooperative are once again joining together in a cooperative effort to offer another Free “Child Check” clinic for infants and children up to pre-kin…
On Feb. 19 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., CCCHS will host the traditional parent teacher conferences at the school with most of the teachers being in their classrooms. During this time, students needing assistance in completing scholarship applications can come to the commons area. From 6 p.m. to 8…
Ethan Hill, a member of the CCCHS Tiger Band, has been selected for the 1234A State Band.
USD 379 will be hosting the annual Kansas Heritage Day at Garfield Elementary on Friday, Jan. 31, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Wakefield School is asked for band alumni to play with student band members at the home game on Friday, Feb. 7. This game will be the winter homecoming game and the band will play at the girls’ halftime and in between the games. If you are interested in performing with us, contact Toni Croxt…
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Grandparents from across the state -- some as far as Dodge City -- braved the winter weather that arrived that day for Lincoln Elementary’s annual second-grade Grandparents Day on Nov. 22.
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Do you know what my biggest beef with setting the clocks back a hour? It not that I mind setting them back (or even an hour forward in the Spring). It's that the dogs don't know we've changed the time.
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The dogs are in big trouble —while we up up at my parents house, they got into Halloween candy intended for my nieces and nephew.
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The Clay County Wrestling Club tradition of hosting a free clinic to entice interested grapplers into the sport will continue with an exhibition next month.
The public is invited to an open house on Tuesday, October 26 of the recently completed Cloud County Community College Agriculture Arena.
Everything has its own month, week or day. Here during fall harvest in farm country, it’s fitting to recognize National Co-op Month and the benefits cooperatives provide through membership. We have been recognizing cooperatives nationally since 1964 when U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Orv…
After about a month into fall harvest 2021, area farmers and elevator staff continue to work day and night bringing in the corn, soybeans and grain sorghum or milo. The minimal weekend rains were welcomed and didn’t really keep farmers out of the harvest fields for too long.
Change is the only Constant
Estate tax laws that don’t add up
Most farmers are analytical by nature. Identifying and solving problems happens every day in the life of a farmer. Setting and accomplishing goals of what needs to be completed in a day’s work is a tangible way to see results. Along with a higher calf crop, reducing debt and increasing net w…
It could certainly be called the end of an era in Clay County when an estimated 200 or more people turned out for the auction of the Noffsinger Veterinary Hospital on Saturday, Sept. 11. The auction included the buildings and land as well as equipment and other items Dr. Clifford Noffsinger …
Faith • Family • Farming
Hope for Today
Measuring the economic impact of agriculture in Clay County
James “Jim” Brown: a life of leadership and legacy
Clint Decker's "Hope for Today" column has appeared on the Friday Church Page of The Dispatch for many years. The monthly or twice-a-month column now appears in the The Dispatch on Mondays.Born in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Decker was raised in a pastor’s home and is the youngest of four children. …
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Countryside News
By Carolyn Chaffee
COUNTRYSIDE NEWS
The girls were picking gooseberries in our pasture when they decided to take time out to look for their favorite activity of robbing bird nests. They were at the far end of our pasture when they saw a big snake under a fallen log. They immediately found some sticks and began killing the sn…
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