The Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition this month awarded Latin Lactation in Southwest Kansas a grant to extend the run time for a bilingual billboard that promotes workers’ rights to lactation accommodation in the workplace.
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In the first game of the day a walk-off left Spearville on the wrong end of a 4-3 defeat to Pratt Skyline May 7. The game was tied at three with Pratt Skyline batting in the bottom of the seventh when Miller singled on a 3-1 count, scoring one run.
The Bucklin Red Aces derailed Ellis the night of March 7. In game one Nate Bowman threw a gem for the Red Aces, allowing zero runs and besting Ellis by a score of 4-0 In the first inning, the Red Aces got their offense started when Bowman doubled on a 3-1 count, scoring one run.
The Red Demons fell behind early and couldn’t come back in a 14-7 loss to Blue Valley West May 8. Blue Valley West scored on a double by Kyle Jones in the first inning, a walk by Joey Nichols in the first inning, a double by Joseph Lock in the first inning, a single by Alex Villegas in the second inning, and a wild pitch during Nichols’s at bat in the second inning.
Dear Amy: My younger sister is 54. She has been divorced three times and has a teenage daughter.
Right now, some people are probably grumbling about lane closures on the Second Avenue Bridge. We take it for granted we can easily cross the Arkansas riverbed in Dodge City without inconvenience or paying a toll. But that wasn’t always the case.
Since 1997, May has been designated as National Moving Month. It marks the beginning of the nation’s busiest time of year for moving – May through August. Your Better Business Bureau (BBB) fielded nearly 1,100 complaints against moving companies last year. BBB’s Scam Tracker had reports of more than $730,000 lost to moving scammers, a 216% increase from 2020. As we approach mid-May, this is a good time for consumers to educate themselves on how to avoid victimization by unscrupulous companies, and smooth out the famously rocky process of relocating their residence.
The public is invited to attend a public meeting for the U.S. 56/U.S. 283/U.S. 400/2nd Avenue intersection improvement project just south of Dodge City on Tuesday, May 17, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at the Dodge City Public Schools USD 443 Civic Center VIP Room, 2112 1st Ave. The Kansas Department of Transportation is hosting the event.
CIMARRON — Around noon on Thursday, May 5, EMS, fire and the Gray County Sheriff’s Office responded to a trailer fire near 4th Street and Avenue C in Cimarron. According to the Gray County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page, while working the fire, an adult person was found to be deceased inside the residence.