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USD 320 Wamego school board hires interim superintendent The Wamego school board has hired Greg Mann as its interim superintendent for the 2021-22 school year. The board approved the hire Tuesday during a special meeting in a 7-0 vote. Mann’s first day with the district will be June 14 with a salary of $115,000 and the district will pick up the KPERS penalty. The board also interviewed former El Dorado superintendent Thomas Biggs Tuesday, prior to making the hire. Mann will succeed Tim ...

Will Warner-Discovery Merger Mean More Choices, Or Pricey Bundles? May 21, 2021 In a move that will reverberate in Hollywood and streaming media for years to come, AT&T announced Monday it plans to spin off WarnerMedia into a new entertainment company led by Discovery CEO David Zaslov. This has sweeping implications for family entertainment. Iconic brands such as Warner Bros. Pictures, TNT Sports, boundary-pushing TV network HBO, and consistently low-rated CNN will move under the same corporate...

USD 320 Wamego superintendent announces resignation USD 320 superintendent Tim Winter USD 320 Wamego superintendent Tim Winter has announced that he will be stepping down from his role. Winter says he will stay on with the district as an eighth grade math teacher at Wamego Middle School, where he hopes to reconnect with students. “I went into education to work with kids and I enjoyed my 12 years of teaching and then was a principle for 12 years,” Winter said. “All of those years, I ...

April 27, 2021 With the multiplying number of streaming services available, parents today often struggle to navigate these options to find uplifting, cost-effective entertainment that kids love. Last week, a new report from Parents Television and Media Council (PTC) offers help, ranking the top services according to monthly cost, viewing options for families, and parental controls. In 2020, streaming services accounted for 68 percent of all in-home viewing, according to a January survey. As str...

Wamego School Board takes no action following hour long executive session The USD 320 Wamego Board of Education met early Thursday during a special meeting, which included four executive sessions, lasting up to an hour. No action was taken afterward. The executive sessions were regarding non-elected personnel matters and were the first time the board has met since Wamego High students staged a walkout last Friday in support of girls basketball coach Brian McIntosh. Superintendent Tim Wint...

South Kitsap pauses high school reopening plan Jeff Graham, Kitsap Sun © File photo South Kitsap School District South Kitsap School District is pumping the brakes on its plan to allow high school students back on campus for in-person education next month. Superintendent Tim Winter informed school board members Monday that the district is moving forward with its recommendation to welcome back middle schoolers Feb. 8 for two-days-a-week classroom instruction, while high ...

In Focus 1/13/21 Wednesday’s guests included Pottawatomie County Schools Superintendents from USD 320 Wamego Tim Winter and from USD 323 Rock Creek Public Schools, Kevin Logan.       0113 Pott schools 1       0113 Pott Schools 2 Manhattan Mercury Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Ned Seaton joined us for a discussion on some changes to the print schedule for the Manhattan newspaper.       0113 Ned Seaton We also heard from Manhattan area legislators including 66th District...

South Kitsap School District reopening campuses Monday Jeff Graham, Kitsap Sun © File photo South Kitsap School District As the hours passed Sunday, families of young students in the South Kitsap School District kept wondering: will our children be attending in-person classes on Monday or not? Popular Searches The answer finally came late Sunday when 68% of the South Kitsap Education Association membership decided: kids are going back to campus.  "We are moving forward wit...

South Kitsap School District teachers, staff vote to delay return plan Jeff Graham, Kitsap Sun South Kitsap School Districts plan to return youngest students to the classroom on Monday is in doubt.  SKSD Superintendent Tim Winter, school board president Eric Gattenby and South Kitsap Education Association (SKEA) president John Richardson released a joint statement Friday morning that puts the districts reopening plan for next week in jeopardy, after members of the SKEA voted ea...

Australia can’t, and shouldn’t, compete directly with China on the funding of hard infrastructure. By December 23, 2020 Advertisement Looking back on 2016, Australian academic Tim Winter observed that “it seemed as though the world was united by infrastructure, or to be more precise, its possibilities for future making.” By 2017, however, the Australian government’s Foreign Policy White Paper was pointing out that rather than knitting the world together, the infrastructure financing ...