This morning, I pulled into the office while it was still dark, about 4:30 a.m. The campus was quiet, as it usually is at that hour. Even in the stillness, I saw someone already working with purpose: one of our custodians, Kristy Holmes, was outside sweeping the sidewalks.
“You owe me a million dollars,” my neighbor Kyler calmly stated, as he walked toward me.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins has announced that agricultural producers who suffered eligible crop losses due to natural disasters in 2023 and 2024 can now apply for $16 billion in assistance through the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP).
Are any of us happy when someone is truthful with us about something we need to change in our life? I do not like it at the time, but many times we know in our hearts they are speaking the truth to us. Especially if the truth coming from a source we know is reliable and true? The truth they speak may be for our own good. If we listen to what they are saying and do what they say then our lives will be enriched because of their truth.
School has started for high schoolers engaged in public education, and what better time than now to think about what advice to give these young men and women on the cusp of adulthood. But first, some ground rules.
School is back in session for students in the Tri-County Tribune coverage area, and this means the excitement of meeting new teachers, making new friends and the opportunity to learn new things.
The apostle John closes his first letter with this admonition: “Little children, keep yourselves from idols.” (1 Jn. 5:21). We might be tempted to think that this hardly has any relevance in today’s world, especially for us in the West. After all, we’re a rather sophisticated lot – modern, rational, scientific, and all that. In our arrogance we flatter ourselves by thinking we are above being beholden to images carved in wood or stone or made with gold or silver. No sir, none of that superstitious stuff for us!
The Greensburg City Council met August 4, 2025 for regular business, minus Mayor Matt Christenson. Council President Mark Trummel called the meeting to order with a Pledge of Allegiance and invocation provided by Pastor Dave Vernon.
Scoular’s farmer advisor group – now in its third year – welcomed new members during its summer gathering, plus toured a key Scoular grain facility and ethanol plant partner in western Nebraska. Members of the advisory group include two farmers from Pratt County - Todd Tobin, Iuka, and Jerry DeWeese, Pratt.
For 2023 Pratt High School graduate Grace May, the journey from Pratt to Yale has become more than chasing opportunity—it has been a way to take that homegrown Pratt pride with her every step of the way.