http://www.pratttribune.com/section/NEWS pratttribune.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. Sat, 18 May 2013 15:39:21 +0000 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130518/NEWS/130519245/1001/NEWS?rssfeed=true Sat, 18 May 2013 0:01:00 +0000 Gale Rose http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130518/NEWS/130519245/1001/NEWS A pair of promoted sheriff's officers has filled two sheriff's department vacancies with familiar faces.
Sheriff Sgt. Jimmy White was promoted to undersheriff and detention Sgt. Dan Ailstock has been promoted to jail administrator.
Both have been filling these positions in an interim capacity. The pair officially took office Monday, May 13 when Pratt County Sheriff Vernon Chinn notified the Pratt County [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519222/1001/NEWS?rssfeed=true Sat, 18 May 2013 11:36:43 Gale Rose http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519222/1001/NEWS http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519440/1001/NEWS?rssfeed=true Thu, 16 May 2013 10:44:43 Gale Rose http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519440/1001/NEWS It didn't take long for the Kansas Legislature to respond to the amendment in the Kansas Constitution allowing the Legislature to change the way watercraft are taxed in Kansas.
Legislators created the bill and Gov. Sam Brownback signed it into law on April 16.
The new law will reduce the boat tax to 11.5 percent of assessed value effective on Jan. 1, 2014. The rate will fall again a year later to five percent of [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519441/1001/NEWS?rssfeed=true Thu, 16 May 2013 9:01:50 J.W. Keene http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519441/1001/NEWS Pratt County Commissioner Glenna Borho has questioned policies presently being used to regulate, or not regulate, employee use of vacation and sick leave. Accumulation of hours of both, according to Borho, does not seem to be fair to Pratt County.
One of the major flaws in the present policies being used, allows employees to be paid for accumulated hours at their most recent rate of pay even though hours were earned years ago when employees were [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519439/1001/NEWS?rssfeed=true Thu, 16 May 2013 8:58:46 Carol Bronson http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519439/1001/NEWS The Pratt USD 382 Board of Education approved the donation of two scholarships at its regular meeting Monday night.
Letha Mae Gilham will give a scholarship of $500 per year, renewable for up to four years, for a total gift of $4,000.
"She really wants to help kids go to college," Superintendent Suzan Patton commented.
In addition, the family of Clifford Brown, who taught [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130515/NEWS/130519495/1001/NEWS?rssfeed=true Wed, 15 May 2013 16:52:45 Gale Rose http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130515/NEWS/130519495/1001/NEWS http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130514/NEWS/130519666/1001/NEWS?rssfeed=true Tue, 14 May 2013 9:58:34 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130514/NEWS/130519666/1001/NEWS http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130514/NEWS/130519676/1001/NEWS?rssfeed=true Tue, 14 May 2013 9:01:15 Gale Rose http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130514/NEWS/130519676/1001/NEWS It was a heavy technology night at the Skyline Board of Education meeting as the Board considered the school going paperless and voted to expand Sawyer Virtual Academy to add K-5 grades making the academy a K-12 school.
The Board is going paperless at their July meeting. At the Monday night meeting the board got a taste of what it will be like for the students when Skyline Technical Coordinator Kim Ghumm brought in iPads for each member and walked [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130514/NEWS/130519678/1001/NEWS?rssfeed=true Tue, 14 May 2013 8:56:27 Gale Rose http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130514/NEWS/130519678/1001/NEWS Emergency services were kept busy over the weekend in Pratt County with one-vehicle accidents on Saturday, Sunday and Monday mornings that sent five to hospitals.
Two men, one from Medicine Lodge, suffered injuries in a one-vehicle accident at 7 a.m. Saturday morning at Preston.
Daniel Enriquez, 49 of Meeker, Colo., was traveling northeast on K61 in a 2011 Dodge truck when the vehicle went off the road on the [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130513/NEWS/130519734/1001/NEWS?rssfeed=true Mon, 13 May 2013 17:52:41 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130513/NEWS/130519734/1001/NEWS In a surprise ceremony on Monday, Pratt Community College renamed East Hall residence center as Dr. William Wojciechowski Hall, in honor of the president who is retiring after 24 years of service.
]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130513/NEWS/130519811/1001/NEWS?rssfeed=true Mon, 13 May 2013 9:51:25 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130513/NEWS/130519811/1001/NEWS Pratt Regional Medical Center is celebrating National Hospital Week May 12-18. "Hospital Week, first and foremost, is a celebration of people," Susan Page, PRMC President and CEO said. "We're extremely proud our staff, volunteers and medical staff. We recognize the important role they play in extending a sense of trust to our patients and our communities."
This week PRMC will honor 64 employees at the annual service awards banquet. Employees are [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130512/NEWS/130519893/1001/NEWS?rssfeed=true Sun, 12 May 2013 0:01:00 +0000 Ascha Lee http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130512/NEWS/130519893/1001/NEWS With school ending next week, elementary school grades are rounding out the year with field trips.
First and second grade both took trips to the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism. On Wednesday, second grade did a scavenger hunt in the museum, learned about Kansas animals, and got a brief history of the department.
After their tour, the second graders stopped at Lemon Park to go for a walk on the [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130512/NEWS/130519894/1001/NEWS?rssfeed=true Sun, 12 May 2013 0:01:00 +0000 Jenessa Corbet http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130512/NEWS/130519894/1001/NEWS http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130512/NEWS/130519903/1001/NEWS?rssfeed=true Sun, 12 May 2013 0:01:00 +0000 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130512/NEWS/130519903/1001/NEWS In celebration of National Nursing Home Week, the community is invited to play Bingo at 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 17 at Deseret Health and Rehab at Pratt, 1221 Larimer. Snacks, beverages and good fun are promised.
]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130511/NEWS/130519836/1001/NEWS?rssfeed=true Mon, 13 May 2013 8:07:04 Gale Rose http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130511/NEWS/130519836/1001/NEWS http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130511/NEWS/130519895/1001/NEWS?rssfeed=true Sat, 11 May 2013 0:01:00 +0000 Gale Rose http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130511/NEWS/130519895/1001/NEWS Visitors to the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Education Center and Museum will see a lot of new mounted displays in the bird room thanks to a generous donation from a Hutchinson man.
Duane Brown, of South Hutchinson, has donated almost his entire mounted collection of water birds for display in the bird room at the museum, said Chris Shrack, education information representative.
Shrack was [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130511/NEWS/130519896/1001/NEWS?rssfeed=true Sat, 11 May 2013 0:01:00 +0000 Carol Bronson http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130511/NEWS/130519896/1001/NEWS http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130511/NEWS/130519901/1001/NEWS?rssfeed=true Sat, 11 May 2013 0:01:00 +0000 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130511/NEWS/130519901/1001/NEWS The Miss Kansas Parade will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 8. Please contact Andrea at 620-213-1006 to register a float or other group.
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