Adventures in Reading: We have a history of vice vs. virtue
Recently I came across this quote from Joseph Heller’s Catch 22.“It was miraculous.
Jennifer Stultz
4-H members participate in County Club Day events
The County Trailblazers participated in Club Days that was held at Skyline School on Saturday, March 2 in Pratt.
Kiowa County Memorial Hospital to provide clinic services in Bucklin
On March 25, 2024, the following information was shared from the Bucklin Medical Group about a new partnership with Kiowa County Memorial Hospital to provide clinic services in Bucklin.• At the KCMH board meeting, it was approved to move forward with providing clinic services in Bucklin.
Van Pelt represents Pratt County at state spelling bee
Student winners from county spelling bee contests in the Tri-County Tribune coverage area had a chance to participate in the 2024 State Spelling Bee Contest in Salina this past weekend.
Pastoral Commentary: Jesus was willing, are we?
Psalm 31:5 – “Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.”Jesus and the psalmist had it right.
Kansas House tries to fix constitutional flaw to shield agriculture from animal-rights activists
TOPEKA — The Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit in 2018 challenging on First Amendment grounds Kansas’ quarter-century-old law thwarting covert investigations into the treatment of animals and workers at feedlots, slaughterhouses and crop production zones.Ramifications of that legal action continue to vex the animal agriculture industry in Kansas, farm lobbying organizations and rural legislators.In 2021, the 10th Circuit of the U.S.
Great Plains Wondering: Spring is like a perhaps hand
“Spring is like a perhaps hand” wrote poet E.E.
Pastoral Commentary: Lent is about forgiveness
While much of the Lenten season is about repentance, and our call to turn back to God, it is really a time about forgiveness.
Soil temperature is important for germination in the garden
MANHATTAN, Kan.
Counting farms shows challenges, opportunities
There are fewer than 2 million farms in the United States according to the USDA Census of Agriculture released last month, down from a peak of just under 7 million in the early 1930s.