Community Input Needed for 2025 Brown County Health Needs Assessment
Survey now open; a Wednesday, July 23 town hall planned to share results and identify priorities.
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HHS Journalism student places third at state
Hiawatha High School Journalism Senior Student Isabel Burnos placed third at the Kansas Scholastic Press Association (KSPA) State Contest. Burnos submitted her article in the Review Writing category. There were over 1,300 entries among 80 different schools and 26 different categories.
HAP to open for season next week
The Hiawatha Aquatic Park (HAP) is gearing up to open for another summer season.
Community Happenings, 5/27 to 5/30
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Hiawatha Community Foundation hosting Match Days on Memorial Day weekend
A banner for the Hiawatha Community Foundation Match Days event was hung on Hiawatha’s City Hall on the week of Friday, May 16, the week after Mayor Becky Shamburg made the proclamation that the week of May 18 to May 24 would be deemed as Community Foundation Week, which is the same week that the Foundation will be hosting its Match Days event at the Fisher Center on the morning of Friday, May 23 and the afternoon of Saturday, May 24.
Middlebrook Scholarship Awarded
Citizens State Bank & Trust Company, Trustee for the H.O. Middlebrook Scholarship Trust, has announced the 2025 award recipient. The Middlebrook Scholarship was created by H.O. and Helen Middlebrook in memory of their son, James Holmes Middlebrook, who died in infancy. Distributions began in 1945, the year James would have entered college. The Middlebrooks themselves were administrators until 1962, when H.O. Middlebrook passed away. Mr. Middlebrook’s will stated that the scholarship be preserved in a permanent trust, with Citizens State Bank & Trust Company as successor administrator. The one-year scholarship was designed to help college students through that critical freshman year. To date, over 300 students have benefited from the Middlebrooks’ gift, totaling $224,700.00 from an original $40,000.00 contribution 80 years ago. This year’s recipient is Acacia Erdley.
Saluting our fallen Brown County Veterans
Every Memorial Day, the Hiawatha World updates and publishes a list of Brown County veterans.
Brown County attorney discusses last term in position
Brown County Attorney Kevin Hill discussed with the commissioners about the 2026 county attorney budget, as well as stating that this would be his last term as county attorney.
Edna Mae Schmitt Scholarships Awarded
Citizens State Bank & Trust Company, Trustee for the Edna Mae Schmitt Scholarship, announced the 2025 awards recently. The scholarships are renewable for three additional years without reapplying. Edna Mae Schmitt created the trust to benefit graduates of USD #415 and USD #430 with preference to students residing in the old Powhattan School District. Recipients were selected by the committees from each school district, made up of the high school principal, president of the school boards, a teacher selected by those two members, and the mayor of the City of Powhattan. Since the inception of the Edna Mae Schmitt Scholarship in 2010, there has been $54,500.00 in the scholarships distributed.