Where can you find professional, high-quality live music at an affordable price, right here in Pratt? Look no further than the Pratt Community Concert Series, which recently announced its 2022-23 schedule. “The community concert association has been bringing talent to Pratt for more than 80 years.
Alexandra Bonham, right, sifts through the rubble at Castle Rock badlands for clues about life in the prehistoric sea that covered western Kansas. For generations, scientists seeking to learn about prehistoric ocean life have flocked to a place that’s about as far from the ocean as you can get — dry, dusty western Kansas.
Isaac Werner lived before the automobile, so his equivalent love affairs were with his horses, particularly with Dolly Vardin, the little gray mare he bought for $115 and named after a Charles Dickens character. In order to pay for her and borrow enough to buy other things he would need, now having a horse, he recorded in his journal: “I took loan at $350 at 10 percent and straight on my homestead for 5 years, interest due every six months.” Recently my husband Larry saw an article about a young woman, Gail Wise, who bought the first Mustang automobile sold in America.
By Brandon Case Pratt blogger/columnist Special to the Tribune Upon a recent visit to my mother’s home, I came across the memory album from my Grandfather Vondracek’s funeral. You’ve probably seen something like it: a compilation of signatures of those attending the funeral, obituary notices, and cards from persons that gave flowers.
By PCC Communications/ CherryRoad Media staff Special to the Tribune Pratt Community College President Dr. Michael Calvert and Barton CC President Dr.
Pratt native, retired Army Major General Vic Braden was a featured speaker at Ellen Hair’s 40th Work Anniversary at the Pratt Public Library last week. Braden, a graduate of Pratt High and Pratt Community College before going on to earn a J.D. at Washburn University and receiving a National Security Fellowship from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, currently serves as leader of the Kansas Attorney General’s Criminal Litigation Division.
At a time when food prices are skyrocketing because of inflation, Pratt community clubs and organizations continue to step forward and donate to the local Pratt County Food Bank, providing relief for many in times of need.
WASHINGTON – Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas) released the following statement after voting against the Democrats’ tax-andspend bill. “Kansans are suffering under rampant inflation in Biden’s recession – the last things they need are higher taxes and more runaway government spending,” said Rep. Estes. “This bill aims to garner $20 billion from working Americans making less than $400,000 through a massively-expanded IRS. It’s more of the same disastrous policies that have put us in a recession.”
HAYS, Kan - Each spring, scores of Mississippi Kites, graceful raptors the size and shape of a peregrine falcon, journey to Kansas from their winter homes in South America to nest and raise their young.
“A Vote for Susanna” and “The Chicken Sisters” chosen for the National Center for the Book’s Great Reads from Great Places program TOPEKA – The Kansas Center for the Book, a program at the State Library of Kansas, has selected one youth book and one adult book to represent the state at the 2022 National Book Festival. The youth book chosen is A Vote for Susanna: The First Woman Mayor by Karen M.