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Senior Menu
The following well-balanced and nutritious Friendship Meals will be served for lunch at the Great Bend Senior Center, 2005 Kansas Ave. Meals are served with milk; donations for coffee and tea are accepted.
Sabbatini leads Honda Classic going into final round today
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) - Rory Sabbatini had another good round with his new putter Saturday, shooting a 4-under 66 to take a five-stroke lead in the Honda Classic.
Kansas City plans for football stoppage
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Everyone who works for the Kansas City Chiefs, including general manager Scott Pioli and head coach Todd Haley, will be lighter in the wallet if there's a work stoppage in the NFL.
Saturday's AP Top 25 capsules
No. 3 BYU 102, Wyoming 78 PROVO, Utah (AP) - Jimmer Fredette scored 38 points and BYU closed a tumultuous week with a runaway win. Charles Abouo scored 21 of his 25 points in the second half for the Cougars (28-3, 14-2 Mountain West Conference), who earned their first win since Brandon Davies was kicked off the team for breaking the school's honor code. BYU was coming off an 82-64 loss to New Mexico on ...
Rockies edge Kansas City, 10-9
SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) - Vin Mazzaro realizes a good early impression is important in camp for the Kansas City Royals.
NFL’s future has new deadline — again
WASHINGTON (AP) - Let's make a deal? Not quite. There is still time, though. The NFL and the players' union need to figure out a way to bridge major gaps on core issues if they're going to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement. They gave themselves an extra week to try to do that, agreeing Friday to extend the deadline a second time. The current labor deal had been set to run out Thursday night. ...
Pullen scores 17 on senior night, leads Cats over Iowa State
MANHATTAN (AP) - Jacob Pullen, in his last game at Bramlage Coliseum, scored 17 points and Kansas State held off Iowa State 67-55 Saturday, ending the regular season on a six-game winning streak.
Former Kansas basketball assistant coach Manning dies
LAWRENCE – Former Kansas men's basketball assistant coach Ed Manning, father of current assistant coach Danny Manning, died Friday morning at Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas.
SEVEN STRAIGHT
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - No. 2 Kansas wrapped up its seventh straight Big 12 title with defense and dominant play inside. Ball-handling, well, that needs some work.
No. 14 UNC bests No. 4 Duke
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Harrison Barnes scored 18 points to help No. 13 North Carolina beat No. 4 Duke 81-67 on Saturday night, clinching the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season championship.
Jordaan Library Talk
Dr. Bill Brenner presented a copy of book "I'm Praying Hard For You"- Love Letter to a Death Camp: The World War II Ordeal of Bill and Jo Brenner" to Jordaan Memorial Library. This is the personal story of a young couple whose lives were dramatically affected by when he was taken prisoner by the Japanese. It is the story of ordinary people who participated in extraordinary events. Dr. Brenner will sign copies of his ...
Larned Events
Today Jazz Ambassadors - The United States Army field band, Jazz Ambassadors will perform at 3 p.m. at the Larned Middle School Gym. The Admission is free. Thursday Coffee Hour - Coffee hour will be at 9:30 a.m. with Troy Smith at the Trail Stop, 224 Broadway. Taco Night - American Legion Riders are serving tacos at American Legion Post 106, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome.
Archie G. Allen
Archie G. Allen died March 4 at his home in Great Bend. Services are pending with Bryant Funeral Home.
George James “Jim” Eastwood
TULSA, Okla. - George James "Jim" Eastwood, 63, was born on July 25, 1947 in Great Bend to George and Mary (Welch) Eastwood. Jim passed from this life on March 2 in Tulsa, Okla. at the age of 63.
John Maynard Little 1955-2011
HOISINGTON - John Maynard Little, 55, died March 3 at Clara Barton Hospital. He was born Sept. 2, 1955 at Hoisington, the son of Harold E. and Wilma M. (Lust) Little.
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NOW WE KNOW
Now we know why those college basketball coaches get paid so much money. They have to deal with the seedy underworld of basketball in recruiting.
Orioles take down Royals
BALTIMORE - One bad throw led to another, and then another. And another.
Great Bend Middle School fares well at TMP meet
On April 30, the Great Bend Middle School track and field team finished up the 2013 track season by traveling to Hays and competing in a seven-team meet put on by TMP Middle School.
Miami routs Chicago
MIAMI - It was the biggest postseason win in Miami Heat history, and the biggest postseason loss in Chicago Bulls history.
GB places fourth
LIBERAL - It was a fourth-place finish on Tuesday for the Great Bend High School golf team at the Liberal invitational.
Brownback to speak at BCC graduation ceremony
Barton Community College's 43rd commencement is set for 7 p.m. Friday, May 17, in the Barton Gymnasium.
Keep children and pets safe by teaching any dog may bite
TOPEKA - Each year, 4.5 million people in this country are bitten by dogs and 885,000 of those require medical attention, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among children, the rate of dog bite–related injuries is highest for those ages 5 to 9 years, and children are more likely than adults to receive medical attention for dog bites than adults. Children, because of their inexperience and size, are particularly prone to serious ...
Food Bank donation
On a recent afternoon visit to the Barton County Food Bank the volunteers were scurrying about trying to assist local residents who were overflowing the waiting room, many with children in tow, hoping for emergency food assistance. It clearly demonstrated the urgency of ongoing needs still existing for local families in Barton County as well as the critical commitment needed from the community for ongoing financial support for this worthwhile endeavor.
Full entry takes 8th at State
On Saturday May 4th the Great Bend Forensics squad traveled to Emporia High School for the 5A State Championship Speech Tournament. They competed in 16 events, which gave them a full entry. Placing 8th out of 25 schools, the team had five events break into semifinals.
Are we intervening in Syria yet?
Will Obama Beat the 6-Year Itch?
If the 2010 elections weren't bad enough for Democrats, here comes the "six-year itch." With the exception of Bill Clinton's second term, the party that controls the White House loses seats in congress six years into a presidency. But there's a gathering sense among Democratic consultants who work on congressional campaigns that their party could buck the trend in 2014 for a number of reasons, not least because Barack Obama is finally fired up and ...
No-Fault Internet Addiction
Online chat host: Good morning, cyber pals. As you know, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the psychiatric "bible," is to be released this month. It will include "Internet-Use Disorder" - also referred to as Internet addiction - as a condition recommended for further psychiatric study. Our guest today is Dr. Adam Von Cybercruncher, America's leading authority on Internet addiction.
Power lines, homes damaged by storm
Power company and electrical contracting company crews were busy Wednesday morning cleaning up about a half-mile stretch of power poles north of Great Bend snapped and broken by violent winds that swept through the area Tuesday night.
