
HHS gives back on annual Community Service Day
Hiawatha High School held its annual Community Service Day on Wednesday, Oct. 15.

Hiawatha High School held its annual Community Service Day on Wednesday, Oct. 15.

When choosing between living in a small town or a big city, it’s really the choice between a life of meaning or a life of chaos. Living in small towns provides people with a stronger sense of community for support, a deeper sense of belonging and a calmer pace of life. City living creates stress, loneliness, and depression from the large population and fast, crazy pace of life.

The Brown County Historical Society hosted the fifth annual Corn Picking Day at the Ag Museum and Windmill Lane on Saturday, Oct. 18.

They have tackled homework and exams. Now Hiawatha High School students face a bloodthirsty plant. The students are staging the sci-fi musical comedy “Little Shop of Horrors,” bringing the iconic, ever-growing Audrey II to life in the school auditorium on Friday, Nov. 14 and Saturday, Nov. 15.

Oct. 10, 2025 was National Mental Health Day. The main idea of this day was to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world to help mobilize efforts in support of mental health. Mental health has been and will continue to be a growing topic in the world, as the rates fluctuate since previous years.

Many transformations occur during the month of October. Leaves begin to turn various shades of orange and red, while the weather gets decidedly cooler. In the meantime, neighborhoods across the country begin to look quite different, with many homes decked out in the garish garb of Halloween.

The Kansas Art Education Association held its conference in Hiawatha on the weekend of Oct. 10-12.


A group of protesters gathered around the John B. McLendon sign near Zion Lutheran Church at 613 South First Street on Saturday, Oct. 18.

The Hiawatha High School Red Hawk football team traveled to Holton to take on its Wildcats football team during Holton’s homecoming on Friday, Oct. 17. After competing against Wildcats on their home turf, they ended up losing at 13-21 despite Hiawatha’s best efforts.