Pratt High School wrestling leader Tate Thompson quietly won a national award for coaching at the end of May 2022. Along with several other outstanding high school wrestling awards garnered by Greenback associates, Thomson was named the National Girls Wrestling Coach of the Year by the NWCA.
The beauty and historical importance of twenty national grasslands managed by the USDA Forest Service are being celebrated this week during National Grasslands Week. The western prairies that make up today’s national grasslands provide abundant wildlife habitat and recreational opportunities, help maintain farms and ranches, and serve as a treasure for all Americans.
The Pratt County Fair is coming to town soon, with 2022 marking its 75th anniversary. Countless preparations are already being made to ensure that this year’s fair, themed “Back to the Future,” will be one of the most memorable in Pratt history.
TOPEKA, Kansas — A state already gearing up for voters to decide whether to strike abortion rights from the Kansas Constitution reacted with both glee and dismay at the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the 49-year-old Roe v. Wade precedent on Friday.
With the federal ruling, Kansas voters will now decided whether to remove the last barrier protecting abortion rights from the state’s constitution. The U.S.
For more than a century, Kansas students have earned credits — and, after enough of them, a high school diploma — based on how much time they spend in a classroom. The age-old “Carnegie unit” approach to education became the academic law of the land way back in 1906.
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly on Tuesday announced a $53 million program to deliver bonuses to 22,000 child care workers at licensed facilities in Kansas.
A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I spent two full days enjoying Palo Duro Canyon State Park in the panhandle of Texas south of Amarillo. The park’s road runs seven miles from start to finish. The canyon is over 120 miles long. We saw enough, but not much of the canyon’s vastness.
In our house I am called mom, not only by my kids, but their friends. Anytime my kids bring friends over, I have always had this policy that all the kids in my house our mine and any of them can call me mom. You see, I believe if anyone in my family likes you, I liked you and I mean whoever my kids brought home I tried to give them a honest chance.
June was Pride month. It was first declared by President Bill Clinton in 1999-2000, again in 2009 -2016 by President Barack Obama, and continues under the presidential decree for 2021-2022. During the month of June we have seen rainbow images appear throughout mainstream media, social networks, retail establishments, and adorn personal apparel. So what is a Christ-centered, Bible-believing American to do with Pride month? Like many of you reading this article, I believe in the Constitution of the United States of America, a governing document based on God’s higher law and the Bible, granting freedom, dignity, and equality to all. So, what should be our response when the lifestyle choices of other citizens are in direct contradiction to God’s principles and precepts and the natural order He established? Choosing actions that are considered sinful by biblical standards and proven to be detrimental to individuals and society at large? Herein lays the tension we hold.