Pratt’s current municipal swimming pool, which has served the community for 90 years, is rapidly approaching the end of its useful life. This is not news to the Pratt City Commission, but as Public Works Director Russ Rambat explained at the commission’s May 16 meeting, it is time for a new pool.
Dick Anderson, 76, of Pratt died unexpectedly May 12, 2022 after a brief struggle with esophageal cancer. As Sports Director for the local KMMM1290 radio station, Anderson could be counted on to do all the sports broadcasting for the Pratt community as requested. He was quickly tokened the name “The Voice of the Greenbacks.”
PRMC Urgent Care now offers sports physicals No appointment necessary, no insurance processed, $20 with completed KSHSAA physical form, open hours Mon-Fri 9 a.m. - 7 p.m., Sat-Sun 10 a.m.
A full compliment of emergency vehicles and departments responded to a dispatch of an explosion at the Farmers Co-op Equity elevator last week in Sawyer, but company officials remain tight-lipped about what really happened, other than to say there were no injuries.
More than 500 acres of grass and trees were scorched in a voracious fire at Tractor Lake on Monday, May 9, bringing together a community of fire fighters and rural departments north of Iuka. The same area reignited on Saturday, May 14, with personnel from Iuka, Preston, Byers and Stafford County fire departments again responding to curb the danger.
Editor’s Note: We salute all students in our coverage areas for Pratt Tribune, Kiowa County Signal and St. John News, and congratulate recent graduates on their successes in reaching this milestone. Please enjoy some photos from area academic celebrations this week, and come back to these pages next week for our full graduation coverage issue May 25, 2022.
In a stark turn from its more austere budgetary past, the state of Kansas will likely close out the fiscal year in June with a larger-than-expected $2.7 billion surplus, thanks to federal relief funds.
Guardians ad litem say their heavy caseloads make it hard to be everywhere at once. Foster parents want them to know the children they represent better.
The SJN Bank of Kansas has allowed USD 350 to use the building located at 205 East Fourth in St. John rent-free for the last three years for the Parents-as-Teachers program. The bank has now officially donated the building to the school and paperwork will be filed in the Register of Deeds Office this week. The building will open as a daycare in August following remodeling.
When the start bell rang at the 2022 running of the Kentucky Derby last week, some Kiowa County connections were discovered. Ruth Hoeme McFarland, the owner of the Crazy Mule Restaurant in Greensburg and her daughter, Adrien McFarland, who often helps at the Crazy Mule or volunteers at the Kiowa County Care and Share store, attended the Kentucky Derby this year, representing Kansas and even Kiowa County at the annual event.