Dodge City outlast Bat Cats

DODGE CITY – Dodge City rallied from a 7-2 deficit to upset the Great Bend Bat Cats 9-8 on a game-ending single in Wednesday's Jayhawk League baseball game.Jake Cruce singled home Carlos Arel...

Just giving a heads up

Great Bend City Sanitarian Austin LaViolette was out of his office most of the day Wednesday at the site of an emergency abatement. The property was packed with trash, his Great Bend Public Works ...

OUT OF THE MORGUE

Each week we'll take a step back into the history of Great Bend through the eyes of reporters past. We'll reacquaint you with what went into creating the Great Bend of today, and do our best to upd...

Neighborhood Tiger

Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood of Make-Believe is alive and well at the Public Broadcasting System, now as an animated children's program called "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood." The show's modern star, 4-y...

OTR for June 6, 2018

Great Bend Fire/EMSFirefighters made four ambulance runs on Tuesday. There were no fires. Great Bend PoliceTheft was reported at Presto-Circle K located at 2337 Washington St.A non-injury crash wa...

City auction set for Friday

Zoo news: Swans disappear from Vets Lake

Three of the Great Bend Brit Spaugh Zoo's young swans are missing from Veterans Memorial Park. Zoo Supervisor Sara Hamlin is asking anyone with information to call the zoo, 620-793-4226. The swans...

Extreme Ice to give all Thursday revenue to Cook family

ELLINWOOD - Ellinwood's Extreme Ice snow cone shop will donate all revenue received today, Thursday, June 7, to the family of Ellinwood Middle and High School principal Mark Cook to help with expen...

Governor likes what he sees in Great Bend

Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer took a look at Great Bend Wednesday afternoon during a quick visit that included a brief tour and conversations with governmental and business leaders. "It's fun to be her...

Christina Lynn Sanchez 1981 - 2018

Christina Lynn Sanchez, 36, passed away June 2, 2018, in rural Ellsworth County. She was born Aug. 26, 1981, at Beloit, Kan. to Donald Lee and Darcy (Taylor) Mallory. A long time Great Bend residen...

Crazy Rudy’s full court press

Last year, as the tightly wound spool of scandal surrounding his administration started to unravel, President Trump reportedly asked a roomful of White House officials rhetorically, "Where's my Roy...

Midterm Tsunami Months Away

The media continues to lie about Trump

The problem with the "fake news" meme is that such fabrications exist in two places - online at sites dedicated to creating falsehoods and mainstream news outlets.The point of documenting the follo...

Five arrested during drug bust

Ellinwood Police Department executed a narcotics-related search warrant at 6:36 p.m. on Tuesday at 208 West B street, Ellinwood. Arrested at the scene were Tina Creamer, Larry Carpenter, Antonio Br...

Larks outscore Bat Cats 11-6

BY JIM MISUNASjmisunas@gbtribune.com The Great Bend Bat Cats continue to score runs.But the Bat Cats' pitching struggled in an 11-6 Jayhawk League loss to the Hays Larks at Al Burns Field in Tuesd...