Memories of a more innocent time will spring to life when the Pratt City Fire Department Cruise and (car) Show hits the city for two days this weekend.The roar of muscle car engines will again be heard on Main Street and First Street on Friday when entrants take part in a cruise through the city,...

A lot of items selling for a low price add up to a large amount of money. During 2012, the South Wind Hospice Thrift Shop handed over about $72,000 that went directly to care of patients at the hospice house on Yucca Lane and in their homes.Total income for the year was about $80,000 and expenses...

Girl Scouts in Ninnescah Service Unit 114 received awards on May 11. Thanks to leaders, co-leaders, helpers and moms, they've had an active year.Girls in kindergarten through high school sang Christmas carols through the halls at Parkwood Village, enjoyed a Halloween party, warmed the community with...

The 2A track regional at Sublette was bulging with quality performers last Friday. As a result, only the very best of the best athletes were able to break through and qualify for State. Skyline had a few of those, as well as a few non-qualifying but scoring placements.

Beaver sports fans may be yelling "Fore" in the future if a proposal to reinstate golf at Pratt Community College is approved.A member of the PCC Board of Trustees, Darrell Shumway, presented the proposal at the regular monthly Trustee meeting Monday night. The Trustees took no action on the matter...

Part of its business plan to reorganize after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy was for South Wind Hospice to secure outside financing and to negotiate a discounted agreement on industrial revenue bonds issued by the City of Pratt in 2005 for the construction of the hospice house on Yucca Lane.That...

In a surprise ceremony last week, USD 382 named fourth grade teacher Pam Branaman as Teacher of the Year.

A one-vehicle accident southeast of Pratt resulted in burned out pickup.

A Turon 2-year-old was killed and three others injured in a one-vehicle accident Monday morning on K-61 about a mile and a half northeast of Preston.

It was a stacked regional, the toughest 4A regional in many events. The Pratt High School track and field team found the sledding tough, as no boys qualified for the State track meet—although several did manage to place and score. Several Lady Greenbacks will be moving on to state, including the usual suspects as well as some pleasant...

Hopeful was the word from Kansas State University Extension Crops and Soils Specialist Jim Shroyer as he evaluated wheat at the Extension wheat test plot on the David and Jesse Blasi Farm Thursday afternoon.Each of the 24 varieties in the test plot was raised under dryland conditions and because of...

It's good to have a plan. Ray Rome and wife Susan have one when he retires in August. They're going to make sauerkraut.Actually, they've been doing it for years. It's part of Ray's German heritage. The Rome family already has a business, Hoganville Family Farms, that sells the product. When he...

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...

A Pratt teenager was injured following a one-vehicle accident Friday afternoon just northeast of Pratt.

The Pratt High School baseball team heads to Salina next week on a roll. At 3-5 at one point in the season, the Greenbacks have put together a thirteen game winning streak to propel themselves into the State Tournament with a 16-5 record.

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...

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...

The Pratt softball and baseball teams both won their regional Wednesday and advanced to the State Tournament.

Avoiding wild animals and vaccinating pets best options for prevention.

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...

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.

For the Greenback boys’ tennis team, it is fitting that its best season in over a decade culminated with its best showing at the 4A state tournament in as many years.

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...

Skyline student journalists earn state honors

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...

Project Based Learning appeals to students

The Pratt High School Lady Greenback track and field team ran away with the Central Kansas League title at Sterling on Thursday. The girls piled up 125 points to easily outdistance runners-up Haven who had 95. The Greenback boys had a more-than-respectable showing as well, taking 3rd with 90 points behind Hesston (125) and Hillsboro (97).

Jaci Kolm, 17 of Pratt, sustained minor injuries in a two-vehicle accident at the corner of Fifth and Jackson streets at 3:40 p.m. Wednesday.Kolm was eastbound on West Fifth Street when a 1998 Ford F150 pickup, driven by Kevin Koehn, 51 of Haviland, was southbound on South Jackson and failed to...