Archive By Author - Dale Hogg
DeBolt family supports dropping of death penalty
In a brief statement following the second preliminary hearing for the man accused killing Great Bend teen Alicia DeBolt, the DeBolt family said Thursday afternoon they backed the prosecution's call to not seek the death penalty for Adam Longoria.
GBHS homecoming today
Great Bend High School will hold its 2011 Fall Homecoming today. Events are planned throughout the afternoon and evening.
A STAND AGAINST BULLYING
The 200-plus students of Eisenhower Elementary turned the brown playground across from their school into a sea of blue Monday afternoon.
Potential area wind farm changes hands
Although any development would be years down the road, St. Louis, Mo.-based wind energy developer Wind Capital Group purchased a proposed wind power project in central Kansas, a company official said Friday.
Local girl meets dolphin star
When the film "A Dolphin Tail" opened in Great Bend last weekend, 8-year-old Addie Ehrlich was among the first in line.
PUMPKIN PARADISE
On a recent afternoon, dozens of students from Jefferson Elementary School roamed the Long Pumpkin Patch northeast of Great Bend.
TOWERING CHANGE
Timber! Well, sort of. The skyline of downtown Great Bend changed Wednesday morning as the 30-year-old radio tower beside the Great Bend Police Department came down. "It definitely looks different now," said Police Chief Dean Akings. "You say 'wait a minute, there's something missing.'" Akings was among several city officials watching as crews from Mobile Radio Services and Great Bend Crane Rental scaled the tower to attach the cable, detached it from its concrete base ...
Work continues on cyber chat policy
For the Unified School District 428's proposed policy governing electronic communications between teachers and students, it was takes three and four at the School Board's luncheon meeting Tuesday.
RETURN TO SENDER
PARADISE – Paradise lost? Perhaps not, but it may become a little harder to find, at least by mail. The United States Post Office in this small northwestern Russell County community made the U.S. Postal Service's short list for potential closure. The residents are not happy. At a meeting called by the USPS Tuesday night in the Paradise Methodist Church, 50 folks vented their frustration with the plan they feel would place a severe hardship ...
Dry summer prompts water conservation
SUSANK – Things are dry in the northeast Barton County community of Susank, and they are about to get dryer. The Russell Rural Water District No. 3 based there issued a notice to its users this week requesting they do what they can to save water, a resource made more precious by the blistering hot, dry summer.
New service makes shingles vaccine easier
Shingles is a painful, debilitating disease, one that particularly attacks those 60 and older. There is a vaccine, but it is costly.
GB native takes stage with opera great
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – It is the gig of a lifetime for Great Bend native and rising opera star Bryan Pinkall.
International forum comes to Barton County
An 80-acre swatch of rural Barton County will be the hub of some global discussion this week as the Dominican Sisters' Heartland Farm hosts the Sirolli Institute international fall forum.
A sale with class
The brochure reads "own a piece of history or make your own." Dating back to 1929, the history it refers to is the former Shady Grove School west of Great Bend. The price - $86,000. The Unified School District 428 School Board Monday night set the cost for the building and the two acres of ground on which it stands. The package includes the original school house and an attached gym built in 1972. "Expand ...
A MOMENT TO REMEMBER
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. – Matthew 5:9"
Articles By Author - Dale Hogg
TOUTING TOURISM
It is fitting that Barton County celebrate Kansas Tourism Week this week, Great Bend Convention and Visitors Bureau Director Cris Collier told the County Commission Monday morning.
OF RISK AND REWARD
Three weeks ago, a fertilizer storage facility in West, Texas, not all that different from plants in many, small, rural communities, exploded. It killed 14 people, leveled much of the tiny town and rocked the nation.
Come on guys, keep those doors open
Sunshine Week, the national initiative by journalists to assure that sunshine illuminates every crevasse in the halls of officialdom, runs March 10-16. During that week, newspapers traditionally run editorials and columns extolling the importance of open government as it relates to our freedoms as Americans.
A two-way trail
Saturday marked the opening of Travel and Tourism Week in Kansas, which runs through next Sunday. The Barton County Commission Monday morning is set to authorize a proclamation to recognize the importance this industry plays in our local, regional and state economies.
