Archive By Section - Local News
Letters to Great Bend City Council members and/or city officials from the local Fraternal Order of Police chapter express concern over staffing shortages within the Great Bend Police Department, blaming this on salaries that fail to compete with other cities. Members are frustrated with a lack of response, officer moral, and worry about the safety of the community.
May 23, 2017
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Dale
Hogg
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Local News
Members of the Great Bend American Legion Unit 180 and Auxiliary invite the public to honor our nation's fallen warriors and contribute to the continuing needs of veterans by wearing a red poppy for Memorial Day. Handmade crepe paper poppies will be available for a donation.
May 23, 2017
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Susan
Thacker
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Local News
Barton Community College now had three vice presidents instead of one, following an administrative structural change that was approved Tuesday by the college's board of trustees.
May 23, 2017
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Susan
Thacker
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Local News
HOISINGTON -- Monday night, board members of the Hoisington Land Bank met to consider three new applicants for lots in the McKenna Meadows subdivision. After advertising for months, spring had sprung, and it appeared that every lot available under a Moderate Income Housing grant would be spoken for.
May 23, 2017
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Veronica
Coons
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Local News
HOISINGTON -- Dolores Kipper, the city's code enforcement officer, Monday night provided an update to the city council on her efforts to encourage property owners to take advantage of the city's needs-based grant program to help spruce up the exteriors of some houses suffering from deferred maintenance.
May 22, 2017
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Veronica
Coons
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Local News
The sparkling new hilltop scenic overlook tower looms over the griddle-flat Cheyenne Bottoms below. Stretching out into the horizon Monday were the refuge's shimmering pools, brim full from recent rains.
May 22, 2017
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Dale
Hogg
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Local News
It's been a week since an EF3 tornado roared through western Barton County, destroying several homes and causing over $600,000 in damages. At the County Commission meeting Monday morning, officials gave an update on the devastating May 16 storm.
May 22, 2017
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Dale
Hogg
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Local News
NESS COUNTY - A Dodge City woman died Saturday after a van she was riding in crashed on U.S. 283, 5 miles south of Ness City.
May 22, 2017
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Tribune Staff
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Local News
Contracts for head coaches, administrators and management staff are on the agenda for Tuesday's Barton Community College Board of Trustees meeting. Trustees will meet at 4 p.m. on May 23 in room F-30, on the lower level of the Fine Arts Building.
May 22, 2017
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Tribune Staff
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Local News
Last week, as classes were wrapping up at Great Bend schools, 20 elementary students were given BMX-style bicycles as a reward for excellent attendance.
May 20, 2017
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Susan
Thacker
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Local News
Engineman Senior Chief Petty Officer Shannon L. Thomas will retire from the U.S. Navy on June 23 at San Diego, Calif. Thomas is a 1996 graduate of Hoisington High School. His parents are Margaret A. Thomas and the late Larry Keith Thomas.
May 20, 2017
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Tribune Staff
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Local News
A free workshop on origami will be offered at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 4, at the Kansas Wetlands Education Center, 592 NE K-156.
May 20, 2017
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Tribune Staff
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Local News
The Shafer Gallery will host an opening reception for the exhibit "Mages' Marine Marvels" by James Mages at 6 p.m. May 25. The show will run through July 19. The exhibit consists of dramatically stylized fish crafted in cast bronze, stainless steel, aluminum and wood surrounded by boldly patterned brilliantly colored posters.
May 20, 2017
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Special to the Tribune
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Local News
While it's something that's been done locally for as long as anyone can remember, a document and a few signatures now makes it official.
May 20, 2017
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Tribune Staff
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Local News
A pile of old computers and monitors accumulated outside the St. Mark Lutheran Church on Saturday. Pastor Adam Wutka sat at the end of a long table, destroying the magnetic platter inside a hard drive. Meanwhile, his sons Ben and Nathan were talking to Renee Demel from the IT department of Barton Community College, who was showing them different parts inside a dismantled PC.
May 20, 2017
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Susan
Thacker
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Local News
