To inaugurate the new creative writing club, and to celebrate the South Central Community Foundation grant which will fund materials, Pratt High students, teachers, staff, and former staff wrote a crowd-sourced poem. Almost 100 people participated, and PHS English teacher Rose Beilman edited the final poem. Here it is:
Representatives from Barton Community College and the American Welding Society (AWS) gathered Thursday morning to celebrate the college's receipt of a grant worth more than $24,000 from the AWS. The funds were used to purchase eight new welders and is part of an effort to enhance Barton's welding program.
There's often more to successful farming than meets the eye and Ag Astra, a six-state grain marketing consulting and coaching firm based in Pratt, is helping bridge the gap between production and financial stability.
October is Crime Prevention Month, and the Kansas Insurance Department wants to remind Kansans of the importance of stopping insurance fraud. Purchasing auto insurance minutes after an accident and delaying a claim or having your contracting estimate repair costs to include the deductible are just a few examples of the common types of insurance fraud. Insurance fraud is a crime and can lead to criminal prosecution.
OCTOBER 25, 2021 – PRATT & WICHITA, KS - Ninnescah Electric Cooperative joins 11 other rural electric cooperatives in Kansas in deploying sun farms and investing in over 20 megawatts (MW) of solar power to be deployed across 800 miles of the state, and power 80,000 homes in rural Kansas.
LAWRENCE — For the first time in more than 30 years, Kansas will count all of its college students in the towns where they go to school for redrawing state legislative districts next year. Since 1990, Lawrence, Manhattan, Emporia and other college towns lost out on the potential political clout those students represented in an archaic and costly census readjustment aimed at preserving rural political power.
Several St. John city council candidates join others looking to make a positive impact in their own communities if selected by voters on Tuesday, November 2 in Stafford County. A special candidates forum held October 21, 2021 at the Stafford County Annex, gave area residents a chance to ask questions of those running for city positions.
Controversial Rep. Aaron Coleman, D-Kansas City, Kan., has been banned by the Kansas Department of Labor from its premises for allegedly trying to access an employee-only segment of the agency’s headquarters and for “disruptive, intimidating and berating” behavior — charges Coleman disputes.
Soil health facility plans Pratt opening in November PrairieFood, developer of an innovative approach to converting waste biomass into safe, valuable, highcarbon products for agriculture and other sectors, announces the ribbon cutting of its facility in Pratt, Kansas along with the PrairieFood Forum + Soil Health Workshop. The ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held on Monday, November 15 at 10:30 am at the Pratt Municipal Airport.
In 2020, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic brought massive uncertainty, not the least of which being an economy plunged into turmoil not seen since the Great Recession. Six months later, things were looking up — but many economists predicted a recovery that could continue to lag for some time, particularly for middle class and poor residents.