Barton Community College invited the community to attend a signing ceremony with Pratt Community College to celebrate their continued partnership at 9 a.m. April 3 in the Plaza De Cavanaugh room (L-116) in the Learning Resource Center.
Northwestern Oklahoma State University is experiencing a strong enrollment increase for the spring 2025 semester, with an overall growth of 8.28 percent compared to last year. A total of 1,935 students are enrolled across all Northwestern campuses.
The USD 438 Board of Education met for their regular monthly meeting on Monday, March 10, 2025. Board President Rex Robinson called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m.
The official verdict of a groundhog’s judgment may have indicated there would be six more weeks of spring after February 2, 2025, but Walmart employees in Pratt have not taken that advice seriously. A special ribbon cutting ceremony for the store’s garden center took place on Friday, March 21, kicking off special deals on many select items pertaining to gardening, outdoor lawn care, and fun in the sun.
The Kiowa County Health Department has released a special caution about measles as there has been cases reported in nearby states, as well as in southwest Kansas
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At its March 17, 2025 meeting, City of Pratt leaders considered communication issues and the need to inform the public of services and business movements.
Three years ago a summer storm caused the roof of the high school gym in Sawyer to cave in, destroying a community gathering place and part of the home of Patsy Aubley-Janzen. This year, on Tuesday, March 18, another storm with 70+ mph wind gusts spitting snow balls every which way blew out the southern wall of the Sawyer School gym. Bricks exploded across the south lawn of the former schoolyard and across Lorraine Street, some of them reaching the yard of Leon McCullough who lives on the other side.
ST. JOHN – St. John Homecoming Hall & Museum in St. John will host “Ruralpreneurs: Tumbleweeds and Talents in Kansas Communities,” a presentation and discussion by Ron Wilson on Sunday, March 30, at 2 p.m. The museum is located at 304 N. Main in St. John, right next to Tiger Town Pizza. Members of the community are invited to attend the free program. The program is the third in the George and Clara Mae Highfill Lecture Series, and it is made possible by Humanities Kansas.
One minute, Michelle Popovich was walking her sweet dog, Daisy, on a beautiful spring evening in Pratt, the next minute she was screaming for help as a loose dog in the neighborhood ripped into her beloved companion.