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2025 election information for Pratt County

Elections are coming up on November 4. Because this is not a presidential election year, nor even a mid-term congressional election year, there are relatively few elections taking place. In Pratt county, no county positions are up for election, only city and school board. Most of the candidates running in such elections are running unopposed…

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Elks support library with Bookworm Bistro

In 2018, the Pratt Public Library began offering apples to children after noticing that many who came in after school had gone as long as five hours since lunch. Soon after, the library expanded its offerings to include other healthy snacks, and supporting children’s access to food became an unofficial mission of the library.

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Motorists encouraged to watch for deer

Vehicle-deer crashes can happen any day of the year on Kansas roadways. Across the state, 39% of all single-vehicle crashes in 2024 involved a collision with a deer. The Kansas Department of Transportation reports five…

Opinion

On thoughtful uses of privilege

When I watched a student sit-in on the television, I could only wonder how informed those students were, and whether they were interfering with classes other students wanted to attend. I would have preferred seeing…
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