A recent windstorm tore off a large portion of the roof of the Pratt Municipal Building. The Municipal building has eight roof sections, all of which are aging. More than eighty percent of one of these sections was blown off of the building in the windstorm. “We were lucky this… didn’t fly down like frisbies onto Jackson Street onto cars.” said Brad Blankenship, the City Building Inspector.
Ellen Mohler at Mulberry Lane Farm Greenhouse near Sawyer grew up with grandparents and parents who gardened. “There’s never been a year, as far back as I can remember, that I’ve never planted something,” she said.
Celebrate Easter in Pratt April 14 - Easter Egg Hunt at Pratt Health and Rehab, 1221 Larimer Street, 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 14.
So I am going to tell on myself, in this story. Have you ever done something so stupid you can’t believe “How did I miss that?” We have lived in our present home for 15 months as of the writing of this story.
Let’s take a trip back in time. How far? Let’s say, a couple of thousand years. That’s the premise of a play that one rural Kansas community performs live on Easter Sunday, using a remarkable stone outcropping as a natural stage.
I remember the day we brought Teddy our English Bulldog puppy into our home. The breeder told us he was eight weeks old but after receiving his papers, we noticed he was actually only six weeks old at the time. He was a healthy little bruiser and we would laugh at his stumbling and being uncoordinated, but now we realize it was because he was such a baby. My wife and I would sit on the porch in the evenings and watch him explore around in the front yard. He was so happy as he would jump and roll in the grass and investigate his new surroundings but when he would hear a loud commotion like a noisy car passing by, it would scare him and he would come running to us. After a while, he gradually became more used to the traffic sounds and the lawn mowers, and eventually it did not bother him.
On what we call Palm Sunday from Christian scriptures and history, the author of the Gospel according to Luke wrote, “Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, ‘Teacher, order your disciples to stop.’ He [Jesus] answered, ‘I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.’”
TOPEKA, Kansas — One of the largest residential facilities in Kansas for boys who need more help than most foster care homes can offer looks to be spared from closure. Sequel of Kansas LLC signed the original lease for the Lakeside Academy in Wichita around 2008 and recently told the Department for Children and Families it would no longer operate the facility.
LAWRENCE, Kansas — This liberal college town is vote-rich territory for Kansas Democrats. But a new map of congressional districts lumps it with deep-red western Kansas — all but nullifying the ballots of the blue voters here and proving once again the power of gerrymandering.
TOPEKA – The Governor’s Council on Tax Reform has published its final report, which strongly advocates for an immediate end to the state sales tax on groceries and the restoration of a more diversified and balanced tax base. The Council found that returning to a better balance of sales, income, and property taxes provides more stability for the state budget and increases equity for the state’s taxpayers.