Kansas Attorney General Steve Six said Wednesday that a backlog in processing DNA samples through the Kansas Bureau of Investigation has been subsided.
GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. – The Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded Skyline Public School USD 438 with a $5,000 Back-to- School grant. The grant will fund programs, equipment, materials or software for the school’s library or literacy program.
9 a.m. Second annual Amazing Race clue race at Lemon Park, sponsored as a fund-raiser by Build a Better World.
Two floods in a week brought tons of silt and debris through Lemon Park and deposited much of it in Lemon Park Lake on the east side of the park.
More than half a billion eggs have been recalled and nearly 2000 people have become ill from salmonella since mid-August. Eggs from two Iowa farms, Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms, have been widely distributed, and some have been sold in Kansas.
Rich Hill remembers with fondness a Pratt couple who helped him when he became ill while bicycling through Pratt 33 years ago. His memory was slightly inaccurate regarding their names.
A fund has been established at the First State Bank to help cover expenses for Marlene and Dennis Thimesch while Dennis recovers from a six-bypass heart operation in Wichita. Marlene is staying in Wichita and the expenses are mounting.
Contractors for the city’s Main Street water main project are scheduled to begin work today. The project is expected to continue through the middle of October, weather permitting.
Leslie Carrillo represented Kansas last week in the Miss America Outstanding Teen pageant in Orlando, Fla.
School buses will be on the rural roads later this week as Skyline School gets started on Sept. 1, and also on city streets with the starting of Pratt schools on Sept. 7. Student safety is the most important consideration for bus drivers, and it should be for other drivers with whom they share the road.
The August weather patterns that brought temperatures over 100 degrees for the first half of the month followed by much higher than average precipitation are caused by an untypical La Nina weather pattern.
Stafford High School girls will be able to play for the Greenback basketball team this season under an agreement approved Monday morning by the USD 382 Board of Education.
Vincent Scott Dorsey, veterans service representative of the Kansas Commission on Veterans Affairs, Fort Dodge, will be at the Pratt Municipal Building from 1 to 3 p.m. Sept. 2 to assist veterans, their dependents or survivors with questions concerning veterans benefits.
Pratt police arrested two local residents Thursday for the unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine. Following a two month long investigation and based upon observations by alert patrol officers, police obtained a search warrant for a residence in the 200 block of North Jackson.
The Pratt Community College computer system is back up and running following four days of fighting a virus that caused individual campus computers to drop connection with the college computer system, said Kent Adams, PCC vice president of finance and operations.
Normally the halls at Pratt and Skyline schools would be full of students the last week in August but with both school districts starting the year later to save money, only the occasionally teacher and custodian are in the buildings now.
High school football season is upon us and the Tribune wants your photos of everything that happens on game night. Send your photos to sports@pratttribune.com and we'll post them online or print them in the newspaper.
Attorney General Steve Six announced today that a person of interest has been identified in the investigation into the death of 14 year old Alicia Debolt of Great Bend. Attorney General Six is asking Kansans for assistance in obtaining information on Adam Joseph Longoria of Great Bend.
South Central Community Foundation/Youth Making a Difference grant applications are due by Sept. 1. Any non-profit organization interested in receiving a SCCF/YMAD Grant Application, is asked to follow one of the procedures below:
Sandy Foster understands test anxiety. If she didn’t already, she certainly learned this summer how her students feel with a big exam looming, and then waiting for the results.
