A May 1 benefit concert featuring county music legend George Jones was announced at a hastily called press conference Monday morning on Greensburg’s Main Street.
A special promotional Machinerylink combine, decorated with a bison, is up for sale after three years as a lease machine.
WICHITA — When the Miss Kansas contestants take the stage in Pratt in June the Miss Wichita pageant will rejoin the list of local pageants after an absence of five years.
Cassie Van Slyke reaches for the pizza sauce as she and Luz Acosta work on mini pizzas for lunch at a bake and take day Monday at the Pratt Area 4-H Center. 4-H’er Taylor DeWeese organized a day of baking goodies to deliver to businesses that support the 4-H program and also making lunch starting with homemade dough. Pratt County Extension Agent Jodi Drake and several 4-H leaders provided the instruction and supervision.
The local Dillons store is offering special prices on corned beef brisket, $1.29 or $2.49 a pound, depending on cut, and cabbage, 38 cents a pound. Potatoes — white, red, yellow and new — are also available. Everything you need for a traditional St. Patrick’s Day feast is easily found.
The Pratt Area Humane Society was closed Monday for some reorganization. New PAHS Shelter Director Melissa (Cates) Minton is getting the shelter back up to speed. Working at the shelter has filled a dream for Minton.
A Tribune story about the conversion of the Pratt Army Air Field parachute shop to a museum (March 2) touched a chord with an area resident. Jim Bertoglio, Medicine Lodge, not only knows how parachutes were packed, he watched them being made. He also documented wartime activities in photographs.
The City Commission appears poised to call a special election that would allow voters to decide whether to halt or continue with the extension of Maple Street from Parkway Avenue to K-61.
Pratt County District Court Judge Bob Schmisseur has ruled in favor of the Karen Detwiler petition to allow voters to determine if the vote of the Pratt City Commissioners to extend Maple Street should be repealed.
Amongst the 14 scheduled speakers at Friday’s dedication of Greensburg’s new Kiowa County Memorial Hospital (KCMH), it wasn’t hard spotting those at the lectern with a personal connection to the milestone. They were the ones with misty eyes struggling for words.
Average retail gasoline prices in Kansas moved just 2.0 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.71/g today. This compares with the national average that has increased 3.8 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.78/g, according to gasoline price website KansasGasPrices.com.
The removal of an Indeck power boiler from the Gateway Ethanol Plant will move the last of the objections to the asset sale close to resolution. Once the objection is resolved the rest of the matters involving the ethanol plant should be easily resolved, said Ted Loomis, chairman of the Gateway Ethanol board of directors.
After a two-year delay, a short mill and overlay project is slated to start between now and the first part of June.
If a person can’t see to read or hold a book he or she can still enjoy a good western novel or romance, a variety of non-fiction titles and more than 70 magazines in audio form.
The Pratt Recreation Department, Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, and AmeriCorps volunteers are working together to provide free supervised activities for kindergarten through eighth grade students over spring break.
The Pratt Community College group “Vivace” sings “Moonlight Serenade” at the County-Wide Choral Extravaganza. Choirs from PCC and Skyline performed individual numbers then joined together with a few members of the Pratt High School Robed Choir to sing two songs as a combined choir.
Pratt’s sales tax revenues for January fell a whopping 29.9 percent over the same period in 2009 from $209,260 to $146,645, according to the Kansas Department of Revenue.
Kansas farmers grow more than 115 million bushels of soybeans, but in a state where tags on a goodly number of vehicles proclaim “Eat Beef” and milk mustaches are a recognizable advertising icon, not many soybeans, except as cooking oil, make their way to the table. Soybeans are livestock feed, not human fare.
The Pratt Public Library will host a “show and tell” featuring talking books at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 11 at the library.
The Pratt school district will operate within its reduced budget next year — at least until the other shoe drops. USD 382 Superintendent Glen Davis expects that action — or lack of action — by the Kansas Legislature will result in more reductions in funding next year and that K-12 education will be impacted.
