SUE’S ULTIMATE EMBROIDERY, located at 206 S Main in Pratt, serves many different creative sewing, craft and embroidery needs. Sue DeWeese, business owner, has been running the company since 2010. She started her company with a onethread machine, and at that time she was still employed as a local schoolteacher.
AS FORMER U.S. SENATOR and native Kansan Bob Dole was laid to rest with a funeral last Friday in Washington D.C., memorial services in Russell,… Login to continue reading Login…
CLIP-CLOPS RINGING on pavement and jingle bells tinkling in the wind brought smiles to faces of children (and adults) in Pratt on Sunday afternoon when Tia Vogel of Bit and Spur Training, Isabel rode through Pratt on horseback, along with a company of several other horse riders.
WICHITA — For the Boys and Girls Club of Topeka, $25,000. For the Ellis Foundation — giving out scholarships to kids in the Fort Scott area — $120,000. For the naming rights at Naftzger Park in downtown Wichita, $1.4 million.
THREE YEARS ago, most of St. John cringed when former USD 350 Tigers basketball star went down during a Kansas State University men’s basketball game. It was an unfortunate injury at a bad time in a storied career that put the small town of St. John, Kansas on the map when it came to rising stars in the basketball world.
WASHINGTON — Nearly three in ten Americans say their top concern is paying for basic needs or the cost of goods due to inflation, according to a new poll from Monmouth University. Overall, the number of respondents who said it is easy for them to pay grocery bills dropped by 13 points in the past two years, the Monmouth researchers said.
WICHITA — For the Boys and Girls Club of Topeka, $25,000. For the Ellis Foundation — giving out scholarships to kids in the Fort Scott area — $120,000. For the naming rights at Naftzger Park in downtown Wichita, $1.4 million.
A MEDICINE LODGE author has released a new book about “the good, the bad and the ugly” of Kansas history. In his latest book, “True Tales of Kansas,” Roger Ringer tells about famous and not-so-famous Kansans in short, well-researched vignettes. Recently, the Kansas Authors Club awarded Ringer’s newest book the 2021 Martin History Book Award.
MARK CHESNEY, general manager of the Kansas Power Pool [hereafter KPP], reported to Greensburg City Council members at their December 6 meeting that 2022 utility prices are projected to increase over 2021 costs. Over the past five years, the cost of natural gas has remained flat until the unprecedented winter storm of last February. The storm affected the locational marginal energy price in the southwest power pool integrated market where all utilities purchase their energy to service their businesses, cities, and residents. Adding to this, a sixteen percent increase in the southwest power pool’s transmission service cost will be included in the budget for 2022.
DR. BENJAMIN YABUT, who has had 25 years of clinical experience and years of research in Chicago and other cities, brings a big city spirit of improvement to the small town of Greensburg. Dr. Yabut was recently welcomed at the Kiowa County Memorial Hospital as the Chief Medical Officer and family doctor, and he hopes to help improve community health.