-
-
-
Subscribe
Subscribe to our print edition for extra features and to our website for full digital access.
-
-
-
More Top Stories
-
-
Lots could be available by end of summer.
-
When the last class bell rings to signify school is out for summer, the first major vacation day of summer, Memorial Day, is just a few days on the horizon.Containing all the student's excitement after getting out of school can be a challenge to parents especially when Memorial Day comes into...
-
The Pratt County Extension Office has asked for a small increase in the county's budget appropriation this year ($5,700), following two years of remaining the same. In 2012 the county's appropriation was $188,000, while the request for 2014 is $193,700. The last time the county's appropriation was raised was in 2012 when it was raised...
-
Each year Pratt Community College recognizes faculty and staff who have gone above and beyond throughout the school year.This year, Stephanie Wiese, English instructor at PCC for 13 years, was the recipient of the Professional Higher Education Association Instructor of the Year Award.
-
A one-vehicle rollover accident Thursday night injured two men from Pratt County.
-
SALINA - If ever a grand slam changed the complexion of a game, it was during Pratt's first-round state tournament game against Frontenac Thursday evening in Salina.Frontenac and Pratt had exchanged big blows through the first four innings. The Raiders jumped on top 2-0 in the first on a home run by...
-
The investigation continues into an accident Monday afternoon south of Pratt County Veterans Memorial Lake that destroyed one pickup and damaged another vehicle.
-
A one-vehicle rollover accident Monday, May 20 has claimed a second life
-
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...
-
I want to suggest that no matter your upbringing, no matter your spiritual condition or no matter the direction of your moral compass that there is one four letter word we all love, and that is the word FREE. You’ll be pleased to know that the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism(KDWPT) has catered to our love of FREE by...
-
Starting around Tuesday, May 28, the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) will begin an asphalt paving project on US-54 Highway in Kiowa County. This project starts at west city limits of Greensburg and continues east 16 miles to the Kiowa-Pratt County line.Project construction is scheduled to...
-
Pratt County Commissioners discussed vacation and sick leave accumulation with Pratt County Road and Bridge Supervisor Randy Phillippi and Emergency Medical Director Mark McManaman at length, during this week's regular session. Accumulated vacation and sick leave makes the county responsible for a considerable amount of pay, which has...
-
County commissioners have final say.
-
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...
-
A one-vehicle roll-over accident on K-61 northeast of Preston claimed one life Monday morning. Another child was transported by helicopter to a Wichita hospital and an adult and child were taken by ambulance to Pratt Regional Medical Center.Names and further information is not available at this...
-
Average retail gasoline prices in Kansas have risen 28.9 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.92/g Sunday, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 1,329 gas outlets in Kansas. This compares with the national average that has increased 8.9 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.67/g, according to gasoline price website...
-
Dr. William Wojciechowski will be the speaker at a Memorial Day ceremony at 2 p.m. May 27 at the B-29 Memorial Complex at the airport. Wojciechowski retired from the U.S. Air Force as a colonel and from Pratt Community College, where he has been president for the past 24 years.Lt. Col. Matthew J.
-
Kansas State University's Bronson Blasi, a senior in architectural engineering, Pratt, is one of just five national recipients of a scholarship from the Besal Scholarship Fund for the 2013-2014 school year. Blasi is receiving a $3,000 scholarship.The merit-based scholarship is awarded through the...
-
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...
-
Horizons Mental Health Center Director Mike Garrett told Pratt County commissioners Joe Reynolds and Glenna Borho what the state of Kansas does with the statewide sales tax, could significantly impact proposed budgets. If it is continued and not allowed to sunset, more funds would be available — if not, deep cuts could be coming...
-
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.
-
Readers will explore all things underground this summer as Pratt Public Library presents its annual Summer Reading Program. This year's reading program is tailored to all ages, everyone in the family from pre-schoolers through grandma/grandpa are invited to participate."Dig into Reading" is the...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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.
-
Process is on track for selection by mid-July.
-
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.
-
Wayne Day has a dream — the same dream he's had for at least 10 years. He's not getting any younger and nothing's happened. So this is the time to begin pushing forward to establish a halfway house for homeless veterans on his eastern Pratt County property.Day visited briefly with county...
-
Helping people make healthy lifestyle choices is what Pratt Regional Medical Center's dietitian Stephanie Becker, RD, LD does every day. As a registered and licensed dietitian, Becker works with people inside and outside of PRMC. "I'm willing to speak to groups, businesses and organizations about how to make healthy choices," Becker...
-
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.
-
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...
-
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
-
Two men, one from Medicine Lodge and one from Colorado, were injured in a one-vehicle accident at Preston at 7 a.m. Saturday morning.
-
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
-
-
-
-
-
- Read more top stories
Top Stories -
- Financial Advice from Jim Cramer
- Read More
-