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Multiple burglaries reported
Great Bend police received reports of several burglaries on Tuesday morning.
For March, 11, 2011
Great Bend Police Scott Keeler was backing a Ford F-150 in the grass at 4800 17th St. Terrance at 1:31 p.m. Tuesday and struck a water fountain. Vehicles collided at 23rd and Lincoln at 4 p.m. Tuesday. A vehicle driven by Jason Zink backed into a parked vehicle in the 1400 block of Eigth St. at 6:19 p.m. Tuesday. An employee at Travelers Budget Inn, 4200 10th St., ...
PSR students host guest
ELLINWOOD - St. Joseph Parish School of Religion students shared a class with a special visitor, newly ordained Bishop John Brungardt, the sixth Bishop of Dodge City Diocese. A soft-spoken man with encouraging words and provoking thoughts for all ages, Bishop shared a story of the prodigal son, a familiar Bible story to some. "What do you see on the Fathers face in this picture 'shown above'?" the Bishop asked the students. Student answers ...
Presbyterian Church plans annual St. Patrick's Irish stew
First Presbyterian Church in Great Bend will hold its annual St. Patrick's Irish Stew meal on St. Patrick's Day, member Earl Fox reports.
Clinician to work with sutdents in Barton's Vocal Masterclass
Barton Community College's Music Department will present its 27th annual Vocal Masterclass on Saturday, featuring Dr. Holly Swartzendruber, an adjunct vocal music instructor at Tabor College and Hesston College.
High School state basketball tournament scores
STATE TOURNAMENT SCORES First-round games BOYS CLASS 6A At Wichita Wednesday's results Dodge City 55, Leavenworth 53, 2 OT; BV Northwest 55, Wichita Northwest 34; Olathe East 60, Washburn Rural 53; Wichita Heights 55, Blue Valley West 33. CLASS 4A ...
Time to lead or get out of the way -- Mike Reagan
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is getting away with murder because the president of the United States refuses to take action when that's exactly what is called for.
But they really are so peaceful
Police in Hyderabad, Pakistan, recently arrested a doctor for the increasingly suspect crime of insulting Islam - after he merely tossed away the business card of a man who happened to have the last name "Muhammad."
We’re winning, even if we’re losing
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? President Obama rolled out his new motto, "Winning the Future," on the campaign trail this week. The administration is beset by unemployment and mounting debts. As Lincoln once said, it's a government of Charlie Sheen, by Charlie Sheen and for Charlie Sheen. A White House memo noted a shortage of high schools seeking President Obama as a graduation speaker Tuesday. The security is such a hassle. The ...
Area Briefs
HAP Dumont baseball tryouts The Central Kansas Baseball League tryouts for the NBC Hap Dumont baseball competitive traveling team will be on Sunday at Barton Community College's Kirkman Activity Center - from 3-5 p.m. Players need to bring their own baseball gloves and bats, if they have one. Baseballs and batting helmets will be provided. Players will be evaluated on their batting, fielding and baserunning. This is an indoor tryout, so players should wear tennis ...
KSU beats Iowa State in tourney
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Brittany Chambers scored 20 points and Jalana Childs added 14 to lead fourth-seeded Kansas State to a 56-53 victory over Iowa State, sending the Wildcats to the Big 12 women's tournament semifinals against top-seeded Baylor.
Oklahoma shoots down short-handed Baylor
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Cade Davis scored 24 points and Oklahoma hit nine 3-pointers en route to an 84-67 victory over short-handed Baylor in the first round of the Big 12 tournament on Wednesday night at Sprint Center.
St. John’s eases past Rutgers
NEW YORK - No. 17 St. John's, despite not making a field goal over the final 4 minutes, got some of its Madison Square Garden magic back Wednesday with a wild 65-63 victory over Rutgers in the second round of the Big East tournament.
From Jeans to Scrubs
The United Way of Barton County opened the campaign with veteran participants JC Penney in Great Bend and a denim fund-raiser and ended with first-time presentation at Great Bend Regional Hospital. It also concluded with the new name – United Way of Central Kansas.
Royal Dean Henbest
Royal Dean Henbest, 69, died March 9 at Via Christi St. Francis Medical Center, Wichita. Services are pending with Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home, Hoisington.
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'Brain Weather' topic for free cancer talk
The role of emotions in day-to-day life after a cancer diagnosis is the topic for the next Interactive Television (ITV) presentation at St. Rose Ambulatory & Surgery Center. The event, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled for 3 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 22 in the basement-level St. Dominic Room.
Arthur Lewis Mostrom 1925 - 2013
BURDETT - Arthur Lewis Mostrom, 88, died May 8 at Larned Healthcare Center. Born March 16, 1925, in Spearville, he was the son of Clarence H. and Merion E. North Mostrom. On Aug. 17, 1952, he married Faye Schadel in Alexander. She survives. A longtime resident of Burdett, he was a retired mechanic and custodian.
Dr. Sotelo expands practice to include more shoulder surgeries
Alice Walter acknowledged that if she had to do it over again, she wouldn't wait so long. Hindsight tells her she could have returned to her daily activities much sooner.
Brown Mackie students experience hippotherapy at Rosewood Ranch
Two Brown Mackie College occupational therapy assistant students spent four days last week involved with the equine therapeutic riding program at Rosewood Ranch. It's the second consecutive year that Rosewood Ranch has welcomed first-year OTA students from the Salina college to its award-winning therapeutic ranch so that the students can complete fieldwork required for their OTA practicum. Brown Mackie OTA students Megan Collins and Ashley Overbey attended the ranch from April 29 through May 2, ...
Myers explains actions at meeting
Yes I walked out of the council meeting. I should not have even sat there to begin with as I had told them I would not play their childish game and then I did. This was a planned rehearsed orchestrated attempt to discredit me with the voters. I wonder how many if not all of the council members discussed this with each other prior to the meeting.
Great Bend falters at conference track meet
DODGE CITY - The Western Athletic Conference track and field meet was not kind to Great Bend High School on Thursday evening.
Lady Panthers drop game 4-0 at Junction City
JUNCTION CITY - The Great Bend High School girls' soccer team finished their regular season with a 4-0 loss against Junction City on Thursday evening.
Royals hit three home runs, handle Orioles 6-2
BALTIMORE - Jeremy Guthrie's incentive to win had nothing to do with beating his former team.
Edmonds signs Civility Pledge
CONCORDIA - Rep. John Edmonds, R-Great Bend, has signed the Civility Pledge, a spokesman for the Concordia Year of Peace committee announced.
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American pravda, a nation of lawbreakers and Benghazigate
Louis Brandeis, who served on the United States Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939, once warned, "Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."
HMS performs School Daze
HOISINGTON -On April 29 and April 30, the Hoisington Middle School vocal group performed its play "School Daze" at Roosevelt and Lincoln Elementary Schools. The vocal group is made up of 7th and 8th grade students from Hoisington Middle School.
