It’s regarded as one of the most famous love story ever told, yet it has never been staged in Sterling, Kansas. Not at the Sterling High School, Sterling College or the Sterling Community Theatre. Until now. Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is being staged by Sterling College Theatre, featuring a mixture of college students, high school students, and community members from age 16 to 64.

Sterling College will unveil the latest campus master plan as part of a reception for the SterlingNOW Campaign on March 8, 2018, at Studio 96. The come-and-go reception will be held from 5-7 p.m., with a short program starting at 6 p.m. Sterling College Trivia will be held at 5:45 p.m., with prizes for the winners. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be served. The public is invited to attend the event, with RSVPs encouraged but not required. Please RSVP by March 1 to Tana Day at tana.day@sterling.edu or 620-278-4410.

Sterling College will host the presentation “The Murder of Emmett Till,” given by Dr. Dave Tell, the co-creator of the Emmett Till Memorial Project. Till was a 14-year-old black boy who was murdered for whistling at a white woman while visiting his family in Mississippi in 1955. The program will take place Monday, Feb. 26, 2018, at 7 p.m. in Heritage Hall in Cooper Hall on the campus of Sterling College, and the community is invited to attend the free event. The program is made possible by the Kansas Humanities Council with additional funding provided by the Lewis H.

Dr. Kneeland Brown, president of Trinity Academy in Wichita, will speak at the Sterling College Peacemakers Convocation on Friday, Feb. 9, at 10 a.m. As part of the College’s Spiritual Emphasis Week, Brown will present his speech, “Let Justice Roll Down,” in Culbertson Auditorium in Spencer Hall on the Sterling College campus. The event is free and open to the public.