Avery Ayers Berry News Today

Topeka-area teens swept the regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, so we collected some of their work for you to see here.

The artwork currently within ArtsConnect in Noto show the talent of local Black artists and history through professional and youth artists alike.

Hundreds of students have filtered through Joshua Davis Topeka High photography classroom during his ten-year tenure at the school.

Kindergarten teacher Pamela Munoz of McCarter Elementary in Topeka USD 501 is one of eight finalists for the Kansas Teacher of the Year award.

Elly Keyes hadnt thought very highly of a pen-and-ink drawing she’d made of the Kansas Statehouse during her sophomore year at Shawnee Heights High School, but then her teacher Avery Ayers-Berry encouraged her to enter it in as many competitions as she could. About a year and a half after she first drew it, Keyes’ painting is now hanging in the U.S. Capitol. “I didn’t like it at first,” said Keyes, who is now a junior. “It looked rough, since it was a pencil drawing at first. But th...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic kept Milk & Honey Coffee Co.s owners from holding a grand opening last year, they have several community-focused festivities planned for later this month to celebrate one year in business. "We didnt do a ribbon cutting, we didnt do a grand opening for obvious reasons," said Darlene Morgan, co-owner of the coffee shop. "So I thought, You know, Im really going to try and do it up this year. " And Morgan has invited the Topeka High School Drumline, the Highland Park Hig...