Physical activity is crucial for overall health and well-being. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises that most people can benefit from 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise per week, particularly when that physical activity is paired with two days of strength training.
Enough rain fell in Pratt County late Thursday into Friday, July 25 that sheep and goat pens at the Pratt County Fairgrounds flooded overnight. 4-Hers and parents scrambled Friday morning to clean out the pens and walkways, dry out animals best they could, and replace wet mulch and sawdust bedding with dry.
Quinn Breiner enjoyed good success at the Pratt County Fair’s 2025 beef show last Friday. One of Breiner’s steers, Hondo, won Grand Champion Market Steer. She also took home the ribbon for Grand Champion for Intermediate Showmanship, also showing Hondo.
For five long hours I had no electricity, no internet, not even a cell phone last Tuesday, on newspaper production deadline day, and it almost proved to be my undoing. A transformer had to be replaced but I wasn’t aware it would take from 7 a.m to 12 noon on the busiest day of me existence each week.
Last Thursday morning, Randy Dickerson reprised his role as judge for both the rabbits and poultry at the Pratt County Fair. Dickerson, of Hutchinson, is a licensed rabbit judge but also judges poultry at some of the smaller fairs. The weather the morning of the judging was cooler than it could have been, due to rain that morning. Nonetheless, hot weather earlier in the weak had diminished the quality of some of the rabbits’ coats.
The Kansas Wetlands Education Center (KWEC) invites the public to join its staff for a free, family-friendly meteor shower watch party on Tuesday, Aug. 12, from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Falls are one of the primary reasons people go to the Emergency Department at Pratt Regional Medical Center (PRMC), as lifelong Pratt resident Rhonda Westerhaus learned one morning in late April.
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Kelbi Richter, former junior college volleyball player and experienced youth coach, has joined the Pratt Community College sports staff at assistant volleyball coach.
With the intention of elevating Kansas as a destination for trails and outdoor connection, Kansas Trails, Inc. (KTI), has launched as the first statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting, supporting, and empowering the vibrant trail community across the state.