Hoisington News

Santa and Mrs. Claus await the 2009 Great Bend Christmas Parade Saturday night. The couple was the guest of honor for the annual opening of the Holiday season which included the lighting of the Mayor's Christmas Tree, the opening of the downtown skating rink, carriage and train rides, and other activities.

Great Bend city employees were busy Wednesday running last-minute checks of Christmas decorations and, as was the case in the picture, repairing damage done by vandals.

Next week it's expected that the Barton County Commission will take action on a request to use more than $1 million in stimulus funding bonds to help bring a hotel to northern Barton County, replacing the Hoisington facility that was destroyed in the 2001 tornado.

LaVern E. 'PeeWee' Karst, 82, died Nov. 21 at Central Kansas Medical Center in Great Bend.

Great Bend High School student Jeremy Zigler loads food items into his pickup Friday afternoon after the GBHS National Honor Society finished its first-ever food drive for the Barton County Food Bank.

A former member of the world famous Harlem Globetrotters is coming to town. Lamont "Showboat" Robinson, who toured with the Harlem Globetrotters in the 1980s, started a group called the Harlem Roadkings about 12 years ago as a spinoff from the Globetrotters.

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After a tense, two-hour standoff in which authorities resorted to launching tear gas, a 56-year-old Hoisington man emerged from a smoke-filled trailer and surrendered to law enforcement Monday evening.

Hoisington High School Principal Benjamin Jacobs has received a 2009 Educator Award from Yale University in a program to recognize outstanding educators from around the world who have supported and inspired their students to achieve.

Whooping cranes on their fall migration made an appearance at Cheyenne Bottoms this morning.

Antonio Mosqueda was sentenced on Thursday to 9 years and 9 months in jail for the murder of Jose Luis Villanueva.

Following a 45-day lull, the legal battle over the fate of St. Joseph Memorial Hospital here heated back up Monday.

Great Bend resident Mckenzie N. Usoro, 19, was arrested early Sunday morning in connection with a stabbing on Main Street Hoisington during a party.

Pictured is the former Great Bend Packing facility south of Great Bend. City and county leaders approved Monday an incentive package to lure Redbarn Pet Products to take over the plant.

A Hutchinson man who reportedly walked out of the Great Bend Wal-Mart Supercenter with three stolen TVs on Thursday was arrested after a vehicular pursuit through Barton County.

Marissa Anne Pechanec, daughter of Mark and Chelsea Pechanec, La Crosse, was born Aug.

It was a history-making meeting of the Barton County Commission, Monday - or, rather, it was a history-making 'non-meeting.' For the first time that anyone around the courthouse could remember, the commission meeting was shut down for the lack of a quorum when three members were absent.

Once again, this year, Barton County Commissioners have approved cutting half of the cost of the clean-up disposal for a county community, and they stated their support to do the same for other towns, to help address illegal dumping in the county.

When Great Bend Tribune readers pick up their papers next Sunday morning, they may not recognize them at first.

Above, Dan Williams and Chandra Morris take a look at a motorcycle with sidecar, Saturday at the Second Annual Big Bend Bike Rally west of Great Bend.