Archive By Author - Chuck Smith
Fire prevention efforts are heating up
"Smoke Alarms: A Sound You Can Live With!" That is the official theme for Fire Prevention Week, 2010. The week runs through this Saturday in the rest of the country, but for the Great Bend Fire Department, this is just the start of a month of fire prevention efforts. According to information from the National Fire Protection Association - the agency that heads up the annual fire prevention efforts - the week was initiated ...
Domestic violence is highlighted this month
One in 10 Kansas women will report being a victim of domestic violence, but that only begins to tell the story, according to Family Crisis Center Executive Director Laura Patzner.
Can you dig it?
Waste not, want not. There was a time, not all that long ago, either, when that was a watch-word in our society. Children were encouraged to finish the food that was good for them, told that there were starving children in Europe, China, Africa - depending on what sub-generation they were from - who would be glad to have it. And they weren't encouraged to smart off, suggesting that their plate be airmailed to the ...
No nod for Broadway and Harrison
State officials have determined - again - that there is not sufficient cause for a traffic signal that the Great Bend City Council had previously dedicated to paying for itself.
County longevity pay to continue
County staffers will continue to receive longevity pay as they have in the past, the Barton County Commissioners decided this week, after discussing other possible options.
Leave Zimbabwe 100 percent
Zimbabwe's president-for-life, Mugabe, let's not call him a dictator, has drawn a line in the sand and Western nations should stay on their side.
This bad news isn't really 'news' at all
For those Americans to whom the recent census was bad news, it was, as a matter of fact, not news at all.
County continues emergency planning effort
Efforts to develop a Hazard Mitigation Plan for Barton County are moving forward and are meeting with great success so far, according to Barton County Emergency Risk Manager Amy Miller.
Everyone should be aware of CO danger
There aren't a lot of details being released so far in Manhattan about the two people who apparently were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning in their home, except to note that, according to Riley County Police, there was a car left running in a garage adjacent to the duplex where the two lived.
School zone violators endanger kids
Every year, as school begins, there is the period in which students have to learn that there may be different rules at school than at home. They are needed for school to run smoothly and to make sure people are safe.
Water official to be honored Thursday
You could say this is all about water under the bridge, except it's really more about water out of the faucet and a job well done after a lot of years of public service in Great Bend.
Bloggin for safety
More power to them, if it works. Kansas officials are going on-line to encourage people to be safer. According to the Associated Press report, the state officials are "posting online entries from famous and not-so-famous guest bloggers in a campaign to encourage traffic safety." It is leading up to the second annual Kansas "Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day," which the Kansas Department of Transportation is hosting on Oct. 10. Between now and then, these ...
Boyd Road officially reopened Monday
It's not often that there's a grand opening for a road, but that is what happened Monday on one of the curves on Boyd Road in norther Barton County.
Boyd Road ribbon cutting held Monday
It's not often that there's a grand opening for a road, but that is what happened Monday on one of the curves on Boyd Road in norther Barton County.
Time to take the high road
From 9 a.m. to noon on Thursday, Oct. 28, could be a crucial morning for the development of both Great Bend and central Kansas, and local residents are being encouraged to travel to Hutchinson that morning to support the proposed improvements to K-96 highway between Hutchinson and Sterling.
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