Statewide housing has been an issue for a long time in Kansas and solutions have been varied across counties. Some solutions that have been implemented are: rental assistance, low income tax exemption programs and first time home buyer programs.
Kiowas County Senior Center participants enjoyed a fun spirit week along with KCHS students last week dressing comfy, in Maverick gear, in a Peace and Love style and then all dressed up on Friday for homecoming.
Matt and Marci Wooster are the faces and managers of Rattlesnake Meat Company, a new storefront in Pratt that is affiliated with Morning Star Farms in Kiowa County. Located at 112 N. Main Street in Pratt where the former Gatlin Pharmacy used to do business, the Rattlesnake Meat Company uses that space for eight large deep freezers that are stocked with a wide-variety of beef cuts to meet customers needs.
(Washington, D.C., February 11, 2022) – U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. announced his support of the Stop the Nosy Obsession with Online Payments (SNOOP) Act, a bill to strike the tax code provision inserted by the Biden Administration in the American Rescue Plan (ARP) that requires third-party payment platforms to report businesses’ gross transaction volumes totaling more than $600 to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gas Service customers will pay an estimated $5 to $7 a month for five to 10 years to pay for a spike in natural gas costs during frigid weather last year.
S & S Tire is a locally owned tire shop operated by Marshal Sanders. The tire shop is located at 602 W First Avenue in St. John, Kansas. S & S Tire was opened in February of 2013 and has one employee and that is the owner. The hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sanders also goes out with the service truck on emergency calls for tire repairs and replacements.
The old rail line between Country Club Road and Highway 54 in Pratt may eventually become a walking trail. At the February 7 meeting of the Pratt City Commissioners, DeWayne Bryan, Executive Director of the Pratt Health Foundation, approached the city about the possibility of purchasing the rails and including them in the rails to trails program.
The Stafford County Board of County Commissioners met in regular session on Wednesday, February 9, 2022, in the Commission Room in the Annex. Chairman Wycoff called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m.
Mary Jo Taylor is poised, passionate and intelligent in her current job as superintendent for the Haviland Grade School just as she was when serving as a Kansas senator from 2017-2020. Her deep love of education has been a focus through years of public service, no matter what the arena.
The veto of the map redrawing the state’s congressional districts sets up Republicans for a likely override attempt in the Statehouse. TOPEKA, Kansas — Democratic Kansas Gov.