The Pratt Faith Partnership is once again sponsoring a series of luncheons during Lent. These meals and programs will be held at the First United Methodist Church (100 N. Jackson) in Pratt every Wednesday during Lent. The only exception to the Wednesday lunchtime meetings will be that of Holy Week, when the luncheon will be held on Good Friday instead of that Wednesday.
Continuum Ag has issued verified Carbon Intensity (CI) Certificates to farmers who completed the first-ever CI Certification audit process. These official Certificates represent low carbon footprint bushels of corn and are available for farmers to sell into participating markets. The intent is that verified low-carbon bushels, and associated CI Certificates, will earn farmers premiums via the emerging 45Z tax credit program or similar private sector markets. This inaugural audit resulted in over 29 million verified CI Certificates representing family farms across the United States.
The spring semester has had a challenging start in the St. John-Hudson school district. We began with a few snow days, followed by persistent winter weather and a significant wave of illness. As February comes to a close, I am hopeful that the worst is behind us.
The Greensburg City Council met February 18, 2025 at City Hall to consider bids for airport water and septic projects, among other things.
Pratt Community College welcomes Aaron Grant, an alumnus, back to campus this semester as an assistant coach for the Men’s and Women’s Soccer Programs.
With an election year where voters went to the polls three times just behind us, it’s hard for many Kansans to imagine that another election year is just around the corner. Why would I think of discussing gubernatorial elections in 2026?
Taye Wilson Senior Taye Wilson of Pratt recently recorded his 150th win on the wrestling mats in high school competition and was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler of the Regional Tournament last week. This Greenback has worked hard and put…
Representative Kyle Hoffman (R-Coldwater/Assistant House Majority Leader), Kansas District 116, has been part of the busy first five weeks of the Kansas State 2025 legislative session. The district he represents consists of Comanche, Barber, Harper and the western half of both Pratt and Sumner counties. In a recent phone interview, Hoffman provided an update on legislative action he has been involved with in Topeka.
The Heart of America Science Resource Center will be hosting “The Great Ice Age Summit,” this spring, April 25-27 in Haviland. This summit will feature several guest speakers and presenters including Michael and Beverly Oard, Brian Young, Stan Lutz, and Raven Brown as well as the museum curator himself, Jerry Simmons.
When did the idea of ‘Every Child Gets a Trophy’ become an education idea? That is not easily answered, but, the emphasis seems particularly prevalent in the late 1980s and 1990s. I was a teacher during that time, and I remember an angry mother who objected to her daughter’s B. The assignment was to select a few favorite poems and then find pictures (or draw illustrations) that illustrated the poems. The mother could not understand why all the work filling a thick album with Christmas cards had nothing to do with the poems her daughter had selected. The B was for the selection of poems the girl liked, but both mother and daughter missed the point of visualizing the imagery of the poems.