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`It's not about the haircut, it's how you treat your customers'
"It's all about relationships," Larry McCarty said of his barber business that he just retired from June 30. He's retiring after 61 years as a barber mainly in Kiowa, Kansas."It's been a very...
KDH Childcare Addition moving forward, grant received will fund 75%
At the June 27 monthly gathering of the Kiowa District Hospital Board of Directors, President Pat Myers called the meeting to order with board members present including: Jeff Miller, Jim Parker and Chantae Simpson. Marcia Cantrell was absent. Also...
New City Clerk hired and new pickle ball courts to be built in Kiowa
At a special meeting July 3, the Kiowa City Council hired an accounting consultant and accepted the resignation of City Clerk Sheila Smith. Stan Busby, who is now retired from Busby Ford Reimer LLC (BFR) accounting firm of Wichita, received the...
Wind storm blows over old train cars, uproots trees and more in Kiowa
Monday evening when it was still light, the sky darkened and high winds blew in swirling tree branches every direction. Many say it was caused by a front moving in and hit the hot air causing the insane wind. Just south of Kiowa and before the state...
Burlington School has another counselor change
At the late June meeting of Burlington's Board of Education they hired a counselor to fill the vacancy left by Gayle McNett last spring. She was Donita Wagonner who was reportedly seeking the...
Area elevators 2023 grain intake less than half of normal
In the Newsgram reading area of northwest Oklahoma and southwest Kansas, the 2023 harvest of red, hard winter wheat was the worst in about everyone's memory. This serious situation was due to an extreme drought since the summer of 2022, specifically...
Freedom Gates Boys Ranch Fundraising Hamburger Feed and Auction Saturday
All are invited to come out Saturday night, July 15, for the Freedom Gates Boys Ranch (FGBR) Annual Hamburger Feed and Auction. It's in Medicine Lodge at the Heritage Center. The Hamburger Feed is at...
Secured walkway, elementary kitchen remodel and drop-off zone on South Barber radar
Superintendent Dr. Mylo Miller opened South Barber's July Board of Education meeting telling that he's met with architects concerning four big projects – elementary kitchen renovations, elementary d...
Burlington's new Outdoor Learning Center `Is for all teachers I taught with, not just me'
Some Burlington alums have fond memories of Bonnie Somerhalder as their beloved kindergarten teacher. Others think of her as their helpful librarian. Everyone knew she had a passion for reading. "It...
Burlington School Board takes lots of action, gym ahead of schedule, remodeling ongoing
Burlington's Board of Education had a marathon three hour meeting where they took action on a multitude of items. All board members attended including President Robert Hill, Lindsey Callison, Terry Graham, April Kisling and T.J. Rockenbach. Also...
Skies will light up over Kiowa Fourth of July, public invited
“If Hardtner was still doing their fireworks we wouldn't do this in Kiowa. We loved Hardtner's tradition,” Kiowa woman Jenna Mostert said. Last year Mostert and her husband Will and their friends Jarrod and Sammi Inman and many other of their fri...
Freedom Gates Boys Ranch invites public to open house
Teaching troubled young men to have a life with Christ, how to develop a strong work ethic and more upstanding qualities is one of the many goals of the Freedom Gates Boys Ranch located in the tiny town of Hazelton, Kansas. Michael Simpson is...
Thanks to Kiowa/Barber County Economic Development
Much-needed childcare is going to see 198 new daycare slots in five communities in the Kansas counties of Barber, Harper and Kiowa. Funding comes from a $2.1 million Childcare Accelerator Grant, according to Julie Lyon, who is director of the Kiowa...
World Champion Team Ropers Smith/Vander Hamm capture third at national finals
How many junior high students do you know that can say they won the World Team Roping Championship one year and then captured third place in the World competition the next year? Well, folks in Kiowa,...
What there is of a 2023 wheat crop in this area is off to a dismal start
“What little wheat that's been brought in is decent, but there's not a lot of it,” Kevin Pingelton, assistant manager of the Alva Farmer's Cooperative said. “Sadly enough, that is it for now.” For the first time in many area farmers' lives (in the Ne...
City of Kiowa wants to sell three city-owned properties
At the regular monthly June meeting of Kiowa's City Council, they discussed selling three city-owned properties. Those properties are: the old hospital that was demolished and the lot totally cleaned-up at 810 Drumm; two vacant properties by...
South Barber Lady Chieftains have a special guest coach for basketball camp
South Barber's Lady Chieftains could be a whole new basketball team next fall. Their new K-12 Principal Steve Neal invited his friend, a basketball standout from Colorado, to travel to Kiowa and be a...
KDH has `clean audit' – Manor kitchen finished
In the absence of board president Pat Myers, Vice President Jeff Miller presided over the regular May board of directors meeting May 23. All other board members attended including secretary Jim Parker, Marcia Cantrell and Chantae Simpson. Also presen...
Saving a piece of history, Papon restores 1942 Taylorcraft army plane
A lifelong roofer, a bullfighter for a while and a pilot (to name only some of his adventurous activities), Hardtner, Kansas, man Bruce Papon likes a good challenge. One of those adventures was...
South Barber hires several new faces, divided vote on math teacher
South Barber's Board of Education met Monday evening for their June meeting. Their agenda had an executive session near the top. In mainly 15-minute increments, the board was in executive session approximately one hour and 40 minutes to discuss non-e...
Barber County has three state rodeo champs headed to National Jr Hi Finals
Last summer young Kiowa cowboy Steele Smith and his team roping partner Logan Vander Hamm of Ingalls rode into the national junior high finals arena in Perry, Georgia, and after competing rode out of...
Burlington School accepts resignations, hires new ag teacher
Burlington's Board of Education hired Addison Spicer as the new vocational agriculture teacher and FFA advisor at their May meeting. Spicer is reportedly from Fairview, an OSU graduate and just married. She was hired for the 2023-24 school year....
Cantrell and Simpson elected to another 3-year term on KDH Board
No members of the public attended the annual meeting of the Kiowa District Hospital. The Kirkpatrick Room at the hospital was filled with board members and hospital personnel as is typical for the monthly board meetings. Two board of director seats...
$1 million later, Kiowa's General Store celebrates 30 years, needs volunteers
There's no government involvement – just devoted volunteers who've turned your donated leftovers into treasures the last 30 years. Kiowa's General Store helps shoppers find super bargains and in t...
2nd Annual Stateline Ruck March nets 600 pounds of goods
"We had a solid turnout" Pake McNally said of the second annual Memorial Stateline Ruck March. He said 20 participants met at Kiowa's Community Building early Saturday morning, put on their hiking...
