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Larned Junior Indians capture third place
HAYS - After finishing second during the regular season with a 5-1 record, the Larned third and fourth grade Junior Indian football team went 2-1 in the eight team Tournament of Champions to earn third place in the Western Kansas Football League.
Pawnee Commission approves minutes
LARNED - The Pawnee County Commission met Oct. 24 at the Pawnee County Courthouse. The following are approved minutes submitted by Pawnee Commission clerk Ruth Searight.
Jordaan Library features new books
LARNED - Jordaan Memorial Library will be closed Friday, Nov. 11 to observe Veterans Day. The library will open at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 12 and observe regular Saturday hours .
Larned Recycling Center provides public service
By Jim Misunas
Volleytech Sports Club to hold tryouts
Tryouts for the Volleytech Sports Club youth volleyball teams will be held on Sunday, Nov. 13, at the Hoisington Activity Center.
Six Pack tryouts to be held Saturday, Sunday
Tryouts for the Six Pack traveling volleyball club based out of Ellinwood is set for Saturday and Sunday.
Cougars land five players on all-conference teams
The Barton Community College men's soccer team had five players selected to the 2011 All-Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference teams released on Wednesday.
No. 1 LSU, No. 2 Alabama clash Saturday
Johnny Rodgers remembers a day when the two best teams in the land played a game for the ages. Forty years later, he can go over the winning drive as if it happened yesterday.
Hoisington briefs
Hoisington government surplus commodities to be distributed
Tricks take a lot of planning
ELLINWOOD - Life-size Halloween with spine tingling visuals, casts its spell when passing by the John and Erica Perron residence at 415 Cliston Drive (frontage off 7th) in Ellinwood. Each year the displays grow with four or five new additions just this year.
CPMS Renaissance council
BUSHTON - The Central Plains Middle School Renaissance council celebrated a successful first quarter on Thursday, Oct. 27. All students who were passing all classes with a C or higher and had not been referred to the office more than one time throughout the first nine weeks were eligible to attend. Ninety-one percent of all 6-8 grade students achieved this Renaissance goal and got to enjoy an afternoon off from classes with movies and popcorn.
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Phyllis A. Winter 1939 - 2014
CONCORDIA - Phyllis A. Winter, 74, died March 5 at Cloud County Health Center in Concordia. Born on Nov. 20, 1939, in Concordia, she was the daughter of James and Mary (Cote) Breen. She graduated from Notre Dame Catholic High School. On Feb. 24, 1958, she married Willis "Willie" D. Winter. She was a secretary/bookkeeper for Palmquist Drug Store, Associate Financial and various other businesses.
Norma Pauline Kasselman 1917 - 2014
PAWNEE ROCK - Norma Pauline Kasselman, 96, passed away March 5 at Woodhaven Care Center in Ellinwood. Born July 17, 1917, in Columbus, she was the daughter of Emma (LeCleff) and James Argyle. She was a lifetime resident of Pawnee Rock. On June 5, 1937, she married Emmett "Johnny" Kasselman in Ellinwood. He preceded her in death on Oct. 17, 2001.
Bernice Ida Koch 1914 - 2014
ELLINWOOD - Bernice Ida Koch, 99, died March 6 at Woodhaven Care Center in Ellinwood. She was born March 16, 1914, at Alden, the daughter of Claud E. and Emma Louise (Reiser) Parker. She graduated from Alden High School in 1932. On March 10, 1935, she married Harry Koch at Alden, he preceded her in death. A life-long resident of Barton and Rice counties, she was a retired secretary and agent with Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. as well as a homemaker.
School serves Grab 'N Go breakfast
The USD 112 Food Services is celebrating National School Breakfast Week, March 3-7.
Obama, Ukraine, and Republican Amnesia
Boy oh boy, the President of the United States is such a wimp!
Get Ready for ‘Education Spring’
In the state where high-stakes testing began, a few hundred teachers, academics and activists came together last weekend to hasten what one leader called an "Education Spring." The Network for Public Education gathered in Austin to plan the resistance to the status quo of high-stakes testing and an encroaching corporate privatization movement. This first-of-its-kind convention might finally provide an effective opposition to the corporate reform movement that wants to run education like a business.
Shield sharp for Royals in win over Diamondbacks
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Kansas City ace James Shields allowed one hit in three scoreless innings and Mike Moustakas hit a three-run homer in the Royals' 6-5 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday.
Creighton’s McDermott shows he’s beast of Big East
OMAHA, Neb. - It's been a season of no regrets for Creighton's Doug McDermott.
TURNING HEADS
LAWRENCE - Tarik Black pulled a Big 12 championship T-shirt over his broad shoulders, slipped a title hat on his head, and then gave Andrew Wiggins and the rest of his teammates a hug.
Looking ahead at NCAA Tournament ‘dream’ matchups
March Madness is ramping up with the conference tournaments starting this week and the NCAA tournament just around the corner.
