Category: Newell News

This month our Coalition Spotlight is on Terri Dutton-Blanchett. She represents the Ministerial Association sector of our board. This is what Terri had to say: The first 12 years of my life I grew up here in the NVN area. My family lived in Vale and my grandparents, Ray and Dorthey Dutton, owned and ran […]

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NEWELL—On Thursday evening, November 30, the Newell School District held its annual winter concert at the Austin Auditorium. The theme for the night was “Christmas is in Our Hearts: A time to celebrate the beauty of diversity and embrace the unity that binds us all as human beings.” This year’s event featured a special presentation […]

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NEWELL- “We are not talking consolidation. We are not ready to shut her down,” emphasized Newell School Interim Superintendent Don Kirkegaard at a recent Special School Board meeting. However, the school will be looking at some changes in the next couple of years. Student numbers are down from last year, from 269 to 224 and […]

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NEWELL—The Newell Festival of Trees held its annual event on Saturday, December 2 at the Newell City Hall. This highly anticipated day serves as the largest and most important fundraiser of the year for the local emergency services, including the Newell Ambulance Service and the Nisland-Arpan, Vale, and Newell Fire Departments. The festival saw an […]

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Admission: $5 or 3 cans of non-perishable food items per person for the Newell Food Bank. 9:00am – Doors open and Silent Auction open for viewing and bidding all day 10:00am-11:00am – Senior Citizen Christmas Tea with music provided by Vonda Mahaffy 10:30am – Chili Cook-off Judging commences 11:30am – Community lunch 11:30am-1:30pm – Flute […]

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NEWELL—On Friday, November 10, the Newell Lion’s Club organized a delicious pancake supper at the NVN Senior Center, drawing people from all over the community. The event served as a fundraiser for the Newell Community Club. Pancakes, eggs, sausage, and biscuits & gravy were served for a free-will donation. The evening also included a silent […]

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NEWELL-The Newell School Board approved several contracts and the Girls’ and Boys’ Basketball Rules, among other business of the board. Following the reports by Department Heads, Old Business included the approval of an update to the bell system for middle school and high school. The Board chose to approve American Time as the vendor for […]

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Newell High School students proudly displayed the American flag during the opening ceremony to honor area veterans. Fred Wells, David Baumiller, and Nila Charles present the flags to begin the Newell Veterans’ Day ceremonies. Speaker for the Newell Veterans Day Program, Gavin Tesch, challenged the crowd with pushups. He said that is one thing everyone […]

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NEWELL-The website for the town of Newell can be seen at townofnewell.org. Although it is still in process, the site is complete enough to negotiate easily and is full of information about the area. From the new website, water bills can be paid, meeting agendas and minutes can be found, and contact numbers are available […]

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The Patriots Pen Essay contest is sponsored by the VFW and is open to sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students. Ms. Luaine Shaykett encouraged her students to write essays, Inspires and enter them into the contest. There were 50 entries in the contest titled “What Inspires Me to be an American” and the Voice of […]

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