Our activity for the City of Pratt in March 2025 included the hiring of two new city employees, Robert Walker as Code Enforcement/Building Inspector and Crystal Arnett as City Clerk.
MEADE COUNTY, Kansas — Hours after the sun has set for the day, it’s pitch black in the middle of Meade County. As David Hampton stands invisible in a southwest Kansas field scanning the landscape for coyotes, the only sounds are the crunch of dry grass underfoot and calls of coyotes in the distance.
Daniel Blinov, Kenneth Rabinad Vila, and Sixto Golobart all won their matches, giving PCC a 4-2 victory in early season tennis competition. All were straight set victories.
A couple of years ago, I asked my optometrist to make a special pair of glasses for me. I explained to him that I could read my computer screen and books just fine without glasses, but when I was leading worship or preaching, sometimes my vision was just blurry enough to make getting the words right difficult. Could he make a pair of glasses with the focal point at the distance from my eyes to a music stand or pulpit? He could and he did. I now have my very own pair of worship glasses. I think that’s even what it says in the records in his office.
Pratt Community College is proud to introduce Sade’ Roberts as the Assistant Coach for the Women’s Flag Football program. Coach Roberts brings a wealth of experience, leadership, and passion for the game, making her an invaluable addition to the Beavers’ coaching staff.
If there’s one thing that should have no limits, it’s our expressions of gratitude. We all depend upon others, whether we admit it or not, to help us make it through this sometimes difficult life.
Tri-County Tribune Editor Jennifer Stultz shares some photos taken of trees in and around the Tri-County Tribune coverage area over the past two years. She writes about beautiful and sometimes scary aspects of trees in an opinion article called Crossing…
I have always been fascinated by trees. They stoically reach towards heaven, growing, changing with the seasons, withstanding storms, housing birds and animals, and when they die, their composition breaks down to enhance the soil and provide nutrients for new life. Trees are powerful symbols used throughout the Bible to represent life, growth, strength, submission, even suffering. And in the end, trees exemplify the whole ashes to ashes, dust to dust theory as they are broken down literally and figuratively, until they become particles of soil-enriching substance that supports new growth that starts the whole circle of life over again.
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ records how Jesus, after his crucifixion and resurrection, appeared to some of His “sheep of another fold”(1) who were in the new world, and taught them as He had taught His disciples in Jerusalem(2). He taught them to do good works, and to pray and fast to our Father in Heaven, without seeking recognition. “No man”, Jesus said, “can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.”(3) He taught them not to judge one another, and not to try to remove a mote in another’s eye when they have a beam in their own. He taught them not to cast that which is holy before the wicked and unrepentant transgressor lest he turn and rend them. “Ask,” He said, “and it shall be given unto you.”(4) “Therefore”, Jesus said, “all things whatsoever you would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them, for this is the law and the prophets.”(5)
I understand that people today are reluctant to sign their names to opinions in today’s angry world. I have written in the past about how I miss the days when we went to parties and argued politics but left at the end of the evening as friends. What was essential to those arguments was the accuracy of the information about which we argued. One would think that today we have access to even better sources for accurate information, but it seems to me that traditional correspondents like Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite have been smothered by news filled with opinion rather than information.