Today Chamber of Commerce - meeting today 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 502 Broadway. Wednesday Economic Development Board - meeting from 6:30-8 p.m. at 502 Broadway. Thursday Lions Club - Board of Director Meeting at the Nazarene Church
Just a reminder during a winter storm Jordaan Library will be closed if the schools are closed. Announcements will be on the KSNC and KWCH TV channels and the local radio station. If the conditions are icy, call the library to find out if we are closed.
Jerry Buxton, the Great Bend Tribune's reporter covering Pawnee County, died Saturday at the Hospice House in Hutchinson after a brief, but valiant, battle with cancer. He was a valuable member of the Tribune team and a long-time friend. Below are some remembrances written by his co-workers at the paper. His obituary appears on page 3 of today's Tribune.
Due to the weather, the Black History Club program, Early African American Settlers, of Edwards, Hodgeman and Pawnee Counties presented by Mrs. Jane Doris has been rescheduled to Feb. 26th at 2:00 p.m. at the Escue Church in Larned.
Donna Krug, Family and Consumer Science agent at the Barton County Extension, will present the program "Sugar - More Than Just a Sweetener," at 1 p.m. Friday at the Great Bend Senior Center, 2005 Kansas Ave. "Sugar serves many purposes in our foods," Krug said. "In many cases, artificial sweeteners are used to replace sugar. However, these sweeteners do not have the ability to replace all the roles sugar plays in ...
Great Bend Police Monday reports: A window was broken on a pickup at 1436 21st St. A Wii gaming system and miscellaneous games were stolen from 1501 Second St. during a burglary. A license plate was stolen from 1907 Baker Ave. A hit-and-run vehicle struck a parked vehicle at 3503 10th St. A hit-and-run vehicle struck a parked vehicle at 514 Cleveland St. The windshield on a ...
Due to the weather, services for Pearl Mater have been rescheduled as follows: Vigil service will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home in Hoisington. Mass of Christian burial will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Ann's Catholic Church in Olmitz. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
"Sovereign" citizens - militia types - continue to insist that their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution is superior to that of virtually every American historian, judge, legislator, governor and law professor who ever studied it.
ARLINGTON, Texas - Aaron Rodgers celebrated his first Super Bowl scoring pass by simply raising both arms in the familiar signal for "Touchdown!" before briefly embracing an offensive lineman.
Students across the state are studying word lists as they prepare for the Great Bend Tribune's Sunflower Spelling Bee on March 12. But in order to compete in that regional qualifier for the Scripps National Spelling Bee, student must first win county championships. Barton County students will get that chance this Saturday, said Paul Snapp, with the Great Bend Noon Kiwanis. The Kiwanis will host the Donald H Humphreys Barton County ...
ELLINWOOD - June Schiewe, 80, died Feb. 6 at Ellinwood District Hospital. Born June 16, 1930, in Sylvia, she was the daughter of Harry Merwin Shultz and Electa Lee Strawn Shultz. She attended Nickerson schools. An Ellinwood resident since 1963, formerly of San Diego, Calif., and Nickerson, she was a sales clerk at Litwin's and Brown's in Great Bend and the manager of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. On ...
w/pic LARNED - Jerry Buxton, 68, died Feb. 5 at Hospice Hospital in Hutchinson. Born Dec. 14, 1942, in Ransom, he was the son of Richard C. and Esther Johannes Buxton. He was the class Valedictorian at Ransom High School where he graduated in 1960. He attended the University of Kansas and graduated from Fort Hays State University. He worked for several Kansas and Oklahoma newspapers, most recently for the Great ...
Great Bend Fire Department Firefighters made nine ambulance runs on Friday, seven Saturday and five Sunday. There were no fires, but there was one false alarm on Saturday. Barton County Sheriff A vehicle hit a deer in the 300 block of SE 20 Road around 11:15 p.m. Friday. Theft of several hundred dollars worth of oilfield electrical wire and old appliance motors from 1566 East ...
Kellie and Kathie Henderson, sexual abuse victims and twins from Wichita, will appear on the Oprah Winfrey show at 4 p.m. Tuesday on KWCH-TV, channel 12. The twins traveled to Chicago last week for taping, and the entire show is dedicated to their story. Their story was also reported by Roy Wenzl of the Wichita Eagle, in a series titled "Promise Not to Tell." Kellie Henderson is a student at Barton ...
ARLINGTON, Texas - Forget Lombardi on Broadway. Green Bay has the newest Super Bowl hit: Aaron Rodgers.
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 ...
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 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.
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