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Liberty Middle School fifth grader Maxwell Logan won the Pratt County Spelling Bee on Jan. 30. LMS eighth grader David Schotte was the runner up.
Pratt County received beneficial rainfall on Thursday night, after a dry start to the year. Rain is expected to continue periodically through Friday and into Saturday, while the western part of Kansas braces for up to a foot of snow.
Gov. Sam Brownback’s policies have put Horizons Mental Health in an unenviable position again. With economic shortfalls at the state level, the governor has placed the agency in the position where they will have to do better with less.
Medical resources in Pratt County — primary care, specialty physicians and surgeons, diagnostic screening, a regional medical center — aren’t readily available for everyone. Hundreds of county residents, perhaps as many as a thousand or more, are too young for Medicare and don’t have health insurance.
Displays of art and athletic achievements will soon have new homes on the campus of Pratt Community College.
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The names of two attorneys were sent to Governor Sam Brownback today as nominees to fill a vacancy on the 30th Judicial District Court that was created by the January 3 retirement of Hon. Robert J. Schmisseur, Pratt.
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The Pratt Teen Center, which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary at 408 S. Main, looks forward to giving youth their “own space” for many years to come. A non-profit organization, it depends on the community for support.
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A long-term battle with the Kansas Board of Regents to get Pratt Community College and two other Kansas community colleges equal funding for technical programs has ended with a win but no payoff for PCC.
Kansas has a reputation for being tough on securities violations, but investigation and prosecution takes a long time and expenses come out of the budget of the county where the fraud occurred. The Kansas Securities Commission has proposed a bill that would create a state litigation fund.
In 22 years as a tennis coach at Pratt High School, Mike Harvey’s players had considerable success. On Saturday, it was the coach in the spotlight when he was inducted into the Kansas Tennis Coaches Hall of Fame at a ceremony at Crestview Country Club in Wichita.
Crime reports were down substantially for the county in 2011 but the Pratt County Sheriff’s office kept busy with 3,898 calls for service during the year.
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Local fourth graders had a real hands-on lesson that was fun to do, taught several important concepts, tasted good and was good for them.
