Student info available online

Your student's information has always been available, but gaining access to that information meant phone calls to the school and visits with teachers – each time you wanted an update.

County encourages public transportation grant

Barton County officials approved standing up for a local transportation program that has garnered state attention.

Monumentally quick

The last time that Glenn Opie came to a Great Bend City Council meeting, City Attorney Bob Suelter told the council members that the bid from Eby Construction to complete the Jack Kilby plaza area in 84 days for $408,085, was below the engineering estimates.

Rape suspect arrested

The Barton County Sheriff's Office is investigating a report of a juvenile being raped, somewhere in the vicinity of Hart's Corner. A deputy and three Great Bend police officers were dispatched to the Central Kansas Medical Center Emergency Room at 5:11 p.m. Sunday, where the girl's father reported she had been raped.

Ellsworth woman dies in I-70 collision

An Ellsworth woman died in a two-vehicle accident Tuesday at the Hedville Road intersection with Interstate 70 in Saline County. Mary A. Donley, 82, was taken to Carlson-Geisendorf Funeral Home in Salina. The other driver, 18-year-old Austin Shane Nelson, 18, of Salina, was not injured. Both were wearing seat belts. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol online crash logs, Nelson was in a southbound Ford truck on Hedville Road at 8 ...

LOOK OUT JAWS

Jay Holloway loves to fish. That's why while he and his family was on vacation in Florida over Christmas and New Years, he begged to venture into the warm Atlantic waters aboard a chartered fishing boat. For a guy used to reeling in a channel cat, what he hooked into New Years Eve came as quite a shock. "It was a shark," he said Monday, not long after returning from his excursion. ...

County considers keeping VIN inspections

County officials, who learned about plans to drop VIN inspections for vehicles coming to Kansas from other states when they read it in the Tribune last week, showed concerns for the service moving out of the county's hands and will investigate it being taken over by another department.

Broadway-Harrison meeting is Monday at 6 p.m.

Anyone interested in the plans to install traffic signals at Broadway and Harrison are invited to attend a city meeting set for 6 p.m. next Monday, it was announced Monday night at the Great Bend City Council meeting.

CKMC to cease in-patient services

In response to changes in the health care landscape, in the near future, Central Kansas Medical Center will cease providing in-patient care to focus solely on out-patient services, hospital officials said Monday.

Winter traffic accidents reported

The winter storm that began last week contributed to several accidents in central Kansas, including a fatality Sunday in Pratt County. Kansas Highway Patrol also worked one injury accident last Friday in Ellsworth County, and one Sunday in Rush County. Lazaro Antonio Garcia, 43, of Emporia, died when the pickup he was in went out of control on any icy Pratt County road some time Sunday afternoon. The KHP ...

Flags once told story of weather forecasts

Editors note: Ellinwood historians Mary Jo Cunningham and Robert Yarmer provided information for this story.

Cold weather can drive poison into our homes

Over Christmas, Kansas news sources reported on a near-tragedy south of here where a family was "recovering from a pre-Christmas brush with serious carbon monoxide poisoning," according to the Associated Press.

Let it snow, let it snow

Relay already

Relay for Life of Barton County organizers want folks to click their heels together three times and say "there's no place like hope, there's no place like hope."

This is for the birds

CHEYENNE BOTTOMS - The annual National Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count was held in December, and the results showed that the 95 species of birds were present at Cheyenne Bottoms this winter. The numbers were up.

Cooking up great soil

Gardeners may finally catch a break after unexpectedly cool weather last week. It's finally time to start digging and planting, and that means its the perfect time to think about soil health. For gardeners in Great Bend, the city provides plenty of rich dark compost free for the taking.

Kansas 150 years 1861-1900

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