Treader’s celebrates grand opening

Treader's Deli, located at 1309 Main Street in Great Bend, recently celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon cutting and Business After Hours event. As the seventh of the MyTown stores to open, the new restaurant serves soups, salads, sandwiches, and snacks from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays.

Platinum Style Salon celebrates grand opening with chamber ribbon cutting ceremony

The Great Bend Chamber of Commerce recently welcomed Platinum Style Salon to its membership. Karen Crane owner of the Salon along with Cosmetologist Sandy Clanton would like to welcome you to visit their salon.

Parade, free breakfast for vets, spouses announced

Participants in this year's Veterans Day parade in Larned are asked to form up at Dwight Shank Chevrolet, 124 Broadway, at 10:30 a.m. next Thursday, the 11th. The parade is to begin at 11 a.m. Free breakfast will be served at the American Legion Post Home on East Seventh from 7 to 9 a.m. Thursday for veterans and their spouses. The local Legion post is sponsoring the parade and other Veterans ...

Stow the phone

Self absorbed. It's all about me. I am the center of the universe. All of these words come to mind when I see today's endless stream of motorists talking, tweeting, twittering and Face booking while speeding down the boulevard. This recent phenomenon has become epidemic and it's spreading. Harsh words? Certainly, but there are also harsh consequences in lives lost, bodies maimed or injured permanently in traffic accidents caused by those ...

November board meeting at Welcome Inn

Welcome Inn has The regular monthly meeting of the Welcome Inn Leisure Center Inc. was called to order by President Charles Wonsetler on Nov. 3 at 12:50 p.m. with the following members present: Betty Tauscher, Secretary; Jim Forrest, Treasurer; Thelmarie Wilhite, Historian, and Roger Haberman, Reporter. Absent were Marylee Phinney, Vice President, and Ernie Ashley, Financial Secretary. Also present was Amy Bauer. Thyra Frazer declined the position on the board ...

School board to look at LMS math curriculum

School board to look at LMS math curriculum The math curriculum at Larned Middle School is one item on the agenda for the November meeting of the Board of Education of USD 495, Larned. The board will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday at district offices, 120 East Sixth St. Also on the agenda are the Junior City Council, laptop disbursement, Midwest Energy grants and bus bids; as well as ...

School board to look at LMS math curriculum

School board to look at LMS math curriculum The math curriculum at Larned Middle School is one item on the agenda for the November meeting of the Board of Education of USD 495, Larned. The board will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday at district offices, 120 East Sixth St. Also on the agenda are the Junior City Council, laptop disbursement, Midwest Energy grants and bus bids; as well as ...

Church women slate soup, pie lunch, crafts fair

The Episcopal Women of Sts. Mary & Martha Episcopal Church, at 8th and Main in Larned, will have a soup and pie luncheon, and a crafts fair/show, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the church. Chili and chicken noodle soup will be featured, as well as pie.

K of C slates hog fest Nov. 13

The Larned Knights of Columbus Council 3273 will have its Fall Hog Fest from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13, at the K of C Hall on Scenic Drive in southwest Larned. Admission is $9 for adults, $5 for those younger than 12. The menu will feature pulled pork, new potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, bread and tea or coffee.

Vets’ representative to be in Larned Tuesday

Vincent Scott Dorsey, Veterans' Service representative of the Kansas Commission on Veterans Affairs, Dodge City, will be in Larned at the Veterans of Foreign War Building from noon to 2 p.m. and at Larned State Hospital in the Reimbursement Office from 2:30 to 4 p.m. on Tuesday to assist veterans, their dependents or survivors with questions concerning veterans benefits.

Rollover wreck

James L. "Jim" Morton

James L. "Jim" Morton, 64, died Nov. 3 at his home in Great Bend. Born May 4, 1946, in Great Bend, he was the son of Loyd and Violet (Smith) Morton. On Aug. 28, 1970, he married Karen Collier in Great Bend. A resident of Great Bend since 1973, coming from Seward, he was a district manager for Halliburton for 25 years and production superintendent for Hartman Oil Company until his retirement ...

Wilma Imojean Fritz

HOISINGTON - Wilma Imojean Fritz, 82, died Nov. 3 at her home in Hoisington. Born Feb. 12, 1928, she was the daughter of Harrison and Mollie (Proksch) Clift). On Aug. 28, 1947, she married Kenneth L. Fritz in Hoisington. He died Feb. 21, 2010. She was a co-owner with her husband of Fritz's Bait Shop. Mrs. Fritz was a member of the First Christian Church and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, ...

Alvin R. Moeller

LOVELAND, Colo. - Alvin R. Moeller was born Jan. 27, 1927, on a farm near Preston and passed from this life on Nov. 2 at his home in Loveland, Colo. He was 83 years old. Alvin served in the U.S. Army immediately after high school from 1944-1946 and was discharged at the end of World War II. Upon release from the service he settled in the Rush Center area and married June ...

Industrial Arts students attend SkillsUSA

HOISINGTON - Hoisington High School Industrial Arts students travelled to Nebraska to learn leadership skills and participated in projects.

Bridge work completed

Work on the bridge north of the Club at StoneRidge has been completed and the road is open, according to the Barton County Engineers Office.

Virginia Manning 1921 - 2013

ELLINWOOD - Virginia Manning, 91, died May 20 at her home in Ellinwood. Born Dec. 16, 1921 in Ellinwood, she was the daughter of E. Aubrey Smith and Hazel Converse Smith. In 1939, she graduated from Ellinwood High School. On May 17, 1940 she married Delmar Manning in Ellinwood. He died on Oct. 11, 2005. A lifetime resident of Ellinwood, she was a homemaker.

Sienna Michelle Meeks 2013 - 2013

Sienna Michelle Meeks, 3 months, died on May 21 at her home in Great Bend. Born Feb. 22, in Great Bend, she was the daughter of Nolan and Collette (King) Meeks.

Paul J. Linenberger

Paul J. Linenberger, 90, died May 21 at Great Bend Regional Hospital. Services are pending with Bryant Funeral Home, 1425 Patton Road, Great Bend.

Kansas State's first baseball championship reaps several rewards

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - Kansas State reaped the rewards of its first-ever Big 12 baseball championship season as a school-record seven players earned all-conference first-team honors on Tuesday. Wildcats head coach Brad Hill was named coach of the year for the second time.

Unique art treasures shown at gallery

Unique artwork and ceramics will be shown at a gallery opening at 7 p.m. Friday at Petr's Frame House, 2009 16th St. The show features the work of Darnel Row, Joshua Garret and Lili Vialacres.

Chamber Coffee

This week's Chamber of Commerce Coffee will be hosted by Sunflower Bank, 3600 10th Street, at 9:30 a.m., Thursday. Ambassador in charge will be Ronda Sjogren with greeters Connie Oetken and Karmi Green. Coffee, refreshments and door prizes will be available.

Claflin Community/Fitness Center

Peter named 2013-14 KMU president

Bob Peter, city administrator and city attorney for Ellinwood, was named the 2013-14 Kansas Municipal Utilities president at a recent conference.

Claflin set to open Community/Fitness Center

CLAFLIN - Numerous volunteers have put their hands together and established a new Community/Fitness Center for the Claflin area. The project involved refurbishing the old Claflin Elementary School for the new purpose.

"Second-Term Curse"

IRS Scandal another Reason Why We Need the Fair Tax

"It will create a bureaucracy with the efficiency of the Post Office, the frugality of the Pentagon and the compassion of the IRS."– Mantra of those who opposed HillaryCare in the 1990s.

The Government Can’t Be Trusted With Our Health

"We have a large government," political consultant David Axelrod offered as a plea of ignorance to all of the scandals swirling around his boss. "Part of being president is there's so much beneath you that you can't know because the government is so vast." And yet, thanks to Axelrod and Obama, we now stand on the precipice of the largest expansion of government power in almost half a century: Obamacare, officially known as the Patient ...

Black transfers to Kansas with one year of eligibitliy remaining

LAWRENCE - Memphis forward Tarik Black is transferring to Kansas and will be eligible to play immediately.

Red Wings take 2-1 second-round series lead with victory

DETROIT - Gustav Nyquist and Drew Miller scored 31 seconds apart midway through the second period and Pavel Datsyuk restored a two-goal lead in the third to help the Detroit Red Wings beat the Chicago Blackhawks 3-1 Monday night to take a 2-1 lead in the second round series.