Dodge City baseball team opened a four-game series with Butler on Thursday at home for a doubleheader and split with the Grizzles claiming victory in game one 5-3 in walk-off fashion and falling 11-8 in game two.
When Paloma Gomez smelled smoke from inside her garage on Brier Street and Avenue K in Dodge City in the early hours of April 21, she said she thought someone was having a bonfire outside. “I was putting together some things to donate to the Salvation Army when I smelled the smoke,” Gomez said.
There’s a sign on the front door of Black Hole Vinyl that reads, “Text me and I’ll be right over.” The record store is full of new and vintage vinyl records, cassette tapes and CD’s, but it doesn’t qualify to host an annual event called Record Store Day on April 23 that is celebrated around the world by his peers because owner Scott Barb doesn’t keep regular enough hours. “As far as I know I’m the only record store from here to Wichita,” Barb said.
Dodge City softball hosted Colby for a KJCCC doubleheader on Wednesday and dropped a pair of tough games falling 9-1 in game one in six innings and losing game two 9-6. The pair of losses send the Conquistadors to 18-22 on the season and 12-14 in KJCCC play.
After playing on Wednesday the Dodge City softball team hit the road on Thursday for a makeup doubleheader with Seward County and played to the split with the Saints. The Conquistadors claimed a game one 4-1 win and fell 10-4 in game two.
Chapter HM of PEO (a philanthropic educational organization dedicated to the education of women) met April 19 in the home of Jan Scoggins to celebrate the 47th anniversary of their chapter. About 14 members enjoyed a selection of delicious salads, followed by a homemade three-layer marble cake, decorated with home baked chocolate chip cookies, and served with ice cream. The evening was filled with great conversation. Pictured here is the member who baked the cake, Katie Quaderer Linke. [SUBMITTED PHOTO]
The Kappa Psi Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Honor Society at Dodge City Community College (DCCC) inducted 14 new members and installed four new officers Tuesday, April 19. The new members inducted were Jennifer Katz, sophomore from Springfield, Neb.; Hailey Ellis, sophomore from Meade, Kan.; Damian Garcia, sophomore from Dodge City, Kan.; Juan Camilo Susa Cortes, freshman from Bogotá, Colombia; Alan Cervantes, sophomore from Cimarron, Kan; Steven Brown, sophomore from Dodge City, Kan.; Litzy Rosales, Vice President of Service, freshman from Atlanta, Ga.; Olivia Ortiz, sophomore from Dodge City, Kan.; Yesenia Lopez, sophomore from Dodge City, Kan.; Perla Acuna, Vice President of Fellowship, freshman from Norcross, Ga.; Janik Buch, Vice President of Leadership, freshman from Süderbrarup, Germany; Brisa Ontiberos, freshman from Dodge City, Kan.; Addison Spencer, freshman from Vernon, Texas; and Reese Unruh, freshman from Greensburg, Kans.
Chefs, food marketers, millers and other wheat industry representatives came together in Napa, California, on April 11 to 14 for the Wheat Foods Council’s Chef Workshop and first Future of Food Forum. This seminar was insightful and provided a chance to advocate wheat foods to key people in the food industry.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new Kansas fiscal forecast issued Wednesday predicted that inflation will boost state tax collections more than previously expected, intensifying the dispute between Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and the Republican-controlled Legislature over how to cut taxes.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Wednesday vetoed a measure tucked into a spending bill that would have allowed Kansas legislators to reconsider a decision not to join the state pension system for teachers and government workers.