The annual Pratt Area Chamber of Commerce Gala is a fun event that brings together many different people from the Pratt business community and supportive individuals for good food, fun conversations, and awards that recognize the many diverse parts of the community.
Pratt Community College is proud to announce its recognition as one of the top 100 institutions in the nation for the U.S. Department of Education’s prestigious Raising the Bar Award. This honor highlights the college’s unwavering commitment to academic excellence, student success, and community impact.
“Sometimes the lights all shinin’ on me / Other times I can barely see / Lately it occurs to me / What a long, strange trip it’s been.” –“Truckin’” by the Grateful Dead.
All around the state, elected officials are stepping up to positions confirmed by November 2024 elections. The Pratt County Clerk reported that Judge Francis E. Meisenheimer administered the oaths of office January 13 to Pratt County’s elected officials, including Sheriff Jimmy White, Commissioner Morgan Trinkle, Commissioner Rick Shriver, County Clerk Cescha Hoffman, County Attorney Tracey Beverlin, and Register of Deeds Sherry Wenrich.
Coming out of a runner-up finish at the 2025 Hoisington Winter Jam, the Pratt High School Boys’ Basketball team was determined to get on the winning track as they move through their regular season schedule.
Who Jesus is, is a big deal. Our salvation and our eternity depend on it. Our faith in God and His Word, the Bible, require us to believe what Jesus said about Himself. Consider these words of Jesus: Luke 22:66-71 (at His trial before the crucifixion) ‘They said, “If you are the Messiah, tell us.” But He said to them, “If I do tell you, you will not believe. And if I ask you, you will not answer. But from now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”
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Perhaps it has been one of Pratt’s best kept secrets that the Baymont by Wyndham (704 Allison Lane) General Manager Megan Nixon was the hotel chains General Manager of the Year in 2023, but those who attended a Pratt Area Chamber Coffee Chat meeting last Thursday at the establishment learned that award is not the only high honor for the Pratt hotel.
When we moved into a new development in Texas, the land had been an unplowed prairie, it’s commercial use having been a pasture for cattle. It was covered with beautiful wildflowers, and once we built our home and I gardened, finding fossils was common. We know our planet has gone through changes. The question is, are more changes coming?