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Barton sets new enrollment record
Barton Community College's enrollment figures show an overall 5.2 percent increase from summer 2010 to spring 2011, college officials reported. That increase comes off the heels of 10 percent enrollment growth the preceding year. This year's total credit-hour output set a new enrollment record with 107,158 credit hours compared to last year's previous record of 101,877 credit hours. This continues the college's upward trend in credit-hour production for the fourth straight ...
WISHES GRANTED
Just as all seems hopeless, a clever young man comes to the rescue. That is the story told by the Great Bend Recreation Commission's 17th-annual youth summer theater production "Aladdin."
New farm show possible for Great Bend
A new local farm show to replace the 3i Show will be one of the topics at a news conference at 10 a.m. Friday in the Great Bend Chamber of Commerce board room, 1125 Williams, said Chamber Board President Ron Straub.
Heat isn’t only thing rising
Gas prices are on the rise again, locally, with prices ranging from $3.43 to more than $3.55 around Great Bend on Tuesday.
Attorneys seek hearing on photos in Longoria case
Defense attorneys for Adam Joseph Longoria have asked for a pre-trial hearing to determine what photos will be admitted at his capital murder trial. His attorneys also want a hearing in October or November, in addition to the one scheduled for 9 a.m. on July 21, to deal with pre-trial motions. Longoria is charged in the death of 14-year-old Alicia DeBolt last August in Barton County. In seeking the death penalty, ...
Rykiel formally charged with three felonies
The man arrested after 15-year-old Jessica Cheyanne Shearer died on July 4 has been formally charged with aggravated indecent liberties with a child, criminal sodomy with a child 14-16 years old and aggravated endangering a child. Joseph Jeffery Rykiel, 30, made his first appearance Tuesday in Barton County District Court, before District Judge Hannelore Kitts. He waived his right to a preliminary hearing within 10 days, and the preliminary hearing ...
Great Bend, Garden City lose 3i
DODGE CITY – The annual 3i Show, the ag exposition that for years alternated between Great Bend and Garden City, will no longer be held in either community, the Western Kansas Manufactures' Association announced Tuesday. From 2012-2016, it will take place in Dodge City.
LEARNING LEADERSHIP
They came home tired, but energized nonetheless. Three Great Bend High School business students – Dylan Dreiling, Colton Lagerman and RJ Seidel – recently attended the Future Business Leaders of America National Leadership Conference in Orlando, Fla. The conference was designed to sharpen students' core business skills and expand their networks while they participated in business and business-related competitive events. "I just cannot put into words how valuable the experience was," said Cody Lee, FBLA ...
Burn ban continues
It may have missed our attention, but this region continues to be stuck in the grip of dangerously high temperatures and no appreciable precipitation.
Bikers on a Mission
LARNED – Kevin Mincio's incredible journey started with 9-11. He worked a few blocks away from the World Trade Center as a vice president at Goldman Sachs in Manhattan when everyone's world changed forever on Sept 9, 2001. "9-11 changed me forever – and it changed me for the better," he said. Mincio's time after the disaster was invested in restoring his company's computer systems. But he could never get the image of nearby rescue ...
Prosecution says Longoria was 'obsessed' with DeBolt
Adam Joseph Longoria was obsessed with Alica DeBolt and the two exchanged dozen of text messages, according to the motions filed by Deputy Attorney General Victor Braden in Longoria's capital murder case. The attorney general's office plans to introduce evidence of the relationship between 14-year-old DeBolt and Longoria, her alleged killer, during the summer of 2010. Motions file on June 30 outline a the relationship from the "start of a fixation" ...
GBRC announces 2011-2012 budget
The Great Bend Recreation Commission is proposing a maximum general fund budget of $1,649,900 for fiscal year 2011-12, with $485,990 earmarked for personnel. An additional $164,720 not included in the $1.6 million is budgeted for the employee benefit fund, GBRC Director Diann Henderson said Monday as her board of directors held its public budget hearing. "The adopted budget will provide the Recreation Commission with our maximum budget authority," Henderson ...
Final Day
Today is the last day to take in the 2011 Barton County Fair, which opened last Wednesday. Today's events will start with nondenominational church services at 8:30 a.m., followed by breakfast. The morning will also see 4-H round robin showings of small animals and livestock, with the sale of championship animals at 2 p.m. Those who come out for the traditional 4-H barbecue can take in an antique tractor pull ...
Fair photos
Ellinwood prepares for After Harvest Festival with a full range of activities
ELLINWOOD - The city of Ellinwood will party this week to celebrate the 38th annual After Harvest Festival with a full range of activities for the entire family from Thursday to Saturday.
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Myers walks out of meeting
After an often heated exchange between Great Bend City Council Member Randy Myers and several fellow council members over his alleged ethics violations, Myers stood up and walked out of the governing body's Monday night meeting.
GBFD roundup: Fire marshal investigates basement fire
An investigator from the Kansas State Fire Marshal's office was in Great Bend Monday to determine the cause of a fire Sunday afternoon at 2011 Jackson St. It was one of several fire calls over the weekend, Great Bend Fire Chief Mike Napolitano said. Firefighters received the report of a basement fire at 4:37 p.m., at the house owned by James and Krissy Jackson. The first truck arrived to find heavy smoke and fire coming ...
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.
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