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Goessel schools announce honor roll for nine weeks

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Written by Hillsboro Free Press Tuesday, 15 January 2013 14:34

Goessel Junior-Senior High School has released its 2012-13 honor roll for the second nine weeks.

GOESSEL HIGH SCHOOL

Highest honors (4.00-3.75)

Seniors: Nicolas Buller, Davis Cook, Martina Filippi, Grant Flaming, Tia Goertzen, Alex Hiebert, Johanna Hoffman, Tyler Schutz.

Juniors: Nathan Czarnowsky, Henrik Feltens, Heath Goertzen, Reece Hiebert, Mark Schmidt, Benjamin Wiens.

Sophomores: Erin Brubaker, David Hesse, Christian Konen, Bjoern Schuemann, Gentry Thiesen.

Freshmen...

Marion schools find spelling winners

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Written by Hillsboro Free Press Tuesday, 15 January 2013 14:33

Regina Noonan (middle), a fourth-grader at Marion Elementary School won the MES spelling bee competition Friday, qualifying her for the Marion County bee at 10 a.m. Feb. 6 in Peabody. Second place went to Macy Sigel, also in fourth grade and Chloe Burkholder is the alternate. MES?Principal Justin Wasmuth presented the awards. The first-place winner at the Marion Middle School was seventh-grader Lindsey Sigel. Second place went to eighth-grader Jimi Dornbush; seventh-grader Nathan Young is this year’s alternate.

Hillsboro students feted for academic work in 2nd quarter

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Written by Hillsboro Free Press Tuesday, 15 January 2013 14:33

Hillsboro High School and Middle School have released their honor roll for the second quarter of the 2012-13 school year. An asterisk (*) denotes a 4.0 grade point average.

HILLSBORO HIGH SCHOOL

Highest honors (4.00-3.7)

Seniors: Ashley Bartel, Taylor Carlson, *Harrison Faber, Amanda Fisher, Tyler Funk, Daniel Gray, Erika Just, *Bailey Kaufman, *Meghan Leihy, Kateland Litchfield, Peyton Loewen, *Tena Loewe, Christina Morris, *Jeffrey Pritchard, Maci Schlehuber, Lucas Sinclair, *Nathan Unruh, *Joshua Wiebe, Erin Winter.

Juniors: *Danae Bina, Hannah Bostic, Avery Franz, *Morganne Hamm, Erich Herbel, Kianna Hinerman, Abigail Kliewer, *Addie Lackey, Christian Ratzlaff, Madison Ricks, Jehoiada (J.D.) Schmidt, Tanner Sechrist...

Tabor College musicians featured at Newton concert

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Written by Hillsboro Free Press Tuesday, 15 January 2013 14:32

Two Tabor College alumni will be featured performers at the upcoming Newton Mid-Kansas Orchestra Winter Classics Concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, in the Newton High School Auditorium, 900 W, 12th St.

Jesse Warkentin, pianist, singer, composer and musical director, will be the guest artist performing “Rhapsody in Blue,” the popular 1924 composition by George Gershwin.

Warkentin, a 2002 graduate of Tabor, is known for his work with Music Theatre of Wichita and Music Theatre for Young People.

The concert also will give the audience the opportunity to hear the winners of the 2012 Young Soloist Competition. Natalie Wiens, a Tabor College freshman and winner of the college division, will perform “Cello Concerto No. 1” by...

TC musicians to play at Newton concert

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Written by Hillsboro Free Press Tuesday, 08 January 2013 15:52

Two Tabor College musicians will be featured performers at the upcoming Newton Mid-Kansas Orchestra Winter Classics Concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, in the Newton High School Auditorium, 900 W, 12th St.

Jesse Warkentin, pianist, singer, composer and musical director, will be the guest artist performing “Rhapsody in Blue,” the popular 1924 composition by George Gershwin.

Warkentin, a 2002 graduate of Tabor, is known for his work with Music Theatre of Wichita and Music Theatre for Young People.

The concert also will give the audience the opportunity to hear the winners of the 2012 Young Soloist Competition.

Natalie Wiens, from Tabor College, winner of the college division, will perform “Cello Concerto No. 1” by...