GREAT BEND, Kan. – Weighing in at up to 60,000 pounds each, the rows of massive wind turbine components aligned in Fuller Industries Inc’s warehouse west of Great Bend make even the cavernous facility seem small.
When I was young, our family tradition was for my father’s family to gather at the farm. My father had inherited the home where he and his siblings had been raised. His brother’s family lived only a few miles away, and one of his sisters lived about an hour’s drive away. However, the other two sisters lived in California and Texas. The sister in California did not visit regularly, but the family from Texas came nearly every year.
With quiet determination, Pratt Community College tennis teams have built a reckoning among competitors over the past three years under leadership of head coach Jeret Johnson. After a tough season of Division 1 and Division 2 competitions with schools like Cowley College, Seward County, and Barton, the PCC men’s tennis team was elated to win 4th place team in the Nation for 2025.
The Center for Counseling & Consultation in Great Bend has announced the addition of Sara Arnberger as its new Marketing Director—a vital position created to strengthen outreach efforts, enhance visibility, and support The Center’s continued growth and commitment to the communities it serves.
Hundreds of good and blessed years had passed from the time Jesus had visited his sheep of another fold(1) when things began to disintegrate and the people divided into factions and slid into darkness, finally uniting into two opposing nations, and war prevailed. Mormon however remained faithful to God, and although young was appointed to lead the armies of the Nephites. As the record reveals, their lands had become full of thieves and robbers and murderers and magic arts and witchcraft - nevertheless Mormon led them to a series of costly military victories. Yet they did not repent, and he saw that although his people began to mourn and sorrow and lament, “their sorrowing was not unto repentance, because of the goodness of God, but it was rather the sorrowing of the damned…”(2).
The green caboose train car that has been a part of Pratt lore since December 2006 has flown the coop. Well, not actually flown but it was picked up last month by a crane from Trand and loaded out overhead onto a big truck, sold to a couple from Arizona who said they intend to use it for much the same purpose that Larry Kahmeyer and family did at the Evergreen Motel on the west side of Pratt.
The Greensburg City Council met in regular meeting July 21, 2025 at City Hall with a Pledge of Allegiance led by Mayor Matt Christenson and invocation by Pastor Dave Vernon.
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A milestone birthday earlier this month got me thinking about my parents and what their lives looked like at my age, which is vastly different from my life. In reflecting on the differences, it was really to see how my parents’ choices in their 20s and 30s have had a foundational impact on who I am and what my life is like today.