ON WEDNESDAY, December 29, 2021, President Biden extended the national pause on student loan payments, interest, and collections that was set to expire in January. Payments, interest, and collections efforts on most federal student loans have been suspended since March 2020.
Kansas has passed 7,000 deaths from COVID-19 since the first death in March 2020. Kansas has surpassed another grisly milestone before the end of the second calendar year of the coronavirus pandemic in the state — 7,000 deaths from COVID-19.
Over the past two years, Kansas has become an unlikely sanctuary for people across the Midwest and South who need abortions. But whether it remains a refuge will largely depend on decisions the U.S. Supreme Court and Kansas voters make next summer.
A DREAM has now become a reality for Matt Myers. After playing linebacker for Kansas Wesleyan in 2006 and again from 2013-15, then serving in a variety of assistant coaching roles for the past six seasons, he’s now the head coach of the Coyotes.
DANIEL PRATER sets a masterful example as head coach of the Pratt Wrestling Club. The 2004 graduate of Pratt High, where he enjoyed one of the most storied individual wrestling careers in school history, clearly has earned the respect of his student-athletes, their parents and the local community.
GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. – December 28, 2021 – Dollar General announced December 28, 2021, the opening of a new store at 622 S Main St in Stafford.
LOCATED ON THE CORNER of south Main Street and east Second Street in Pratt is Joey’s Barber Shop, owned by Joey Pina since 2010. Pina said his work is about more than just cutting hair.
“It has been tough!” lament many teachers and school administrators. Before 2020, the numbers of college students pursuing K–12 teaching credentials was already falling, and shortages were growing in science, special education—and in some geographic regions—all fields of teaching. Now only the more affluent schools have been able to maintain qualified teachers.
MANHATTAN — Lindsey Berner of Pratt was one of eight new graduates of Kansas State University’s College of Education to received an award from the college for excellence, potential and promise. Recent awards included the fall 2021 Outstanding Undergraduate Student awards given to five outstanding graduates; the fall 2021 Outstanding Future Teacher awards in elementary education and secondary education; and the fall 2021 Outstanding Graduate Student in Education award.
The Skyline Board of Education meeting December 13,2021 was filled with various presentations and reports. To kick off the meeting, Skyline High School student Jude Nelson presented a drone that he coded himself. He said that he coded it for his robotics class, and it took him about a month of class time to finish it.