Schmidt appreciates Shrine Bowl opportunity
The Kansas Shrine Bowl 2025 featured dominate play by West over East in a football game impacted by wind gusts as well as excellent plays.
Jennifer Stultz
Pastoral Commentary: The mission field starts in the mirror
I can be pretty selfish sometimes and try to make the whole world about me. Do you ever do that? Most of us probably do at some point. And sometimes I do that when I think about how much God loves ME! See I know that I am a blessed child of God and that God loves me more than I can understand. What I forget is, that God loves everyone else that much too. That’s EVERYONE else. All of us.
New sports facility coming to Green Sports Complex/Bill Keller Field
Year-round sports opportunities, tourism attractions, and offices for Pratt Rec and Visit Pratt leaders will all be part of a new sports complex coming to Pratt at Green Sports Complex. On Monday, June 16, 2025, the City of Pratt Commission heard a proposed path forward for The Point Project from the City Manager Regina Goff and donor representative Zach Deeds.
Jolly Workers 4-H members share projects, invite public to coming county fair
The Jolly Workers 4-H club held their June meeting at the St. John Annex. Role call was “Do you prefer 100 degree or 0 degree weather?
Government payments push Kansas farm income higher in 2025 amid global uncertainty
TOPEKA — Kansas farm income in 2025 is expected to be among the strongest in the last 20 years, bolstered by $2 billion in government payments for depressed crop prices and weather conditions, an agricultural economics expert said Tuesday.
Seward County to add women’s wrestling in 2025-26
LIBERAL – Seward County Community College will add women’s wrestling as its 10th NJCAA sport, beginning competition in the 2025-26 academic year.
Another View: The Book of Mormon – every man dealing justly one with another
It was about 34 A.D. as the resurrected Lord Jesus continued his visit with his sheep of another fold, as he has told his disciples in Jerusalem he would.(1) He taught them of “the great and last day, when all people, and all kindreds, and all nations and tongues shall stand before God, to be judged of their works, whether they be good or evil - if they be good, to the resurrection of everlasting life, and if they be evil, to the resurrection of damnation…according to the mercy, and the justice, and the holiness which is in Christ.”(2)
Remembering Dad at harvest
By Alvin Skiles Shared by David Skiles Sawyer, Kansas farmer and poet Harvest Time The golden sheaves… are in the field… The harvest time is calling… The big machines are running fast… The grain trucks… they are hauling… The precious…
City of Greensburg steps up to help storm-damaged Plevna and Grinnell
With a 4-0 vote, members of the Greensburg City Council voted to donate $5,000 each to the communities of Plevna and Grinnell at their June 2, 2025 regular meeting. The donations will go towards recovery efforts from tornado damage incurred in May 18 storms.
Great Plains Wondering: Why are gas prices so high in Pratt?
On a June 2 trip back to Pratt from Hays, I gladly filled up my tank in Hoisington for 2.43 a gallon, rather than return to Pratt and overpay 2.97 per gallon here. A little further south, Great Bend offered a gallon of gasoline for only a few pennies more: 2.46.