Childcare is a community need that has become one of the significant needs over the last couple of years, so Economic Development Director Julie Lyon is pursuing a solution with passion. At the Greensburg City Council Meeting on November 15th, Lyon presented an update on her solution.
The cast and crew of the hit review known as "All Together Now!" perfected three performances encompassing 15 songs, 6 big dance numbers and over 160 costumes last weekend at Barclay College, much to the delight of ticket-holders. All shows took place at the still-new Ross-Ellis Fine Arts Building on the Barclay campus in Haviland.
South Central Community Foundation (SCCF) was excited to award over $16,000 in community, children’s health, and teacher’s grants to the communities of Kiowa County this fall. Covering seven counties, SCCF’s goal is to reach many diff�erent sectors of each community, hopefully making a large impact with limited funding.
For some, when the hits keep coming it's a bad thing. For Youth Core Ministries based in Greensburg and Core Community in Pratt and 14 other central Kansas sites, the hits that have been coming in October and November have been all good.
State support for community and employer-based COVID-19 testing would continue into 2022, thanks to $42 million in funding which was granted preliminary approval Monday. Legislators and the state’s business community raised alarm last month when it was disclosed the Kansas Department of Health and Environment was going to run out of funds to support some testing providers by the end of November.
Pilot Club honored their Pilot Express engineers with a dinner, certificates of appreciation, breads of many different fl avors and a chamber bucks certificate in a ceremony Wednesday, November 10 at the Pratt Public Library.
Pratt Lions Club members are busy selling raffle tickets for their annual side of beef and communitybooster fundraiser this month. They are also finding time to empty the purple plastic bag receptacle, located by the Barron Theater on South Main Street in Pratt as it being regularly stuffed.
Although the supply chain seems to have some kinks in it lately, many experts say the U.S. will not experience a turkey shortage this Thanksgiving – at least not much of one.
Pratt City commissioners met November 1 to finalize a takeover of 911 funds and settle a point of contention for some time between city and county officials. Brent Carver, City of Pratt Finance Director, said the city was taking over all the 911 funds and to do so required the city to amend the 2021 budget.
Pratt, Kansas, November 15, 2021 — Lori Kreutzer, County Executive Director of the Pratt and Barber County Farm Service Agency, today reminded foreign investors who buy, sell or hold a direct or indirect interest in agricultural lands in the United States that they are required under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act to report their holdings and transactions to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.