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Administrative reports took up most of the USD 480 school board’s time at its most recent meeting Monday evening.
After hearing updates from Director of Operations Chad Mease and Technology Director Rusty Tuman, Superintendent Dane Richardson shared some updates of his own with the board.
With the recent grand opening of its Limited Medical Clinic, Liberal’s Grace Place Pregnancy Care Center is seeing growth in its size, enabling the center to help a growing number of clients, and along with that increase, the facility is seeing higher figures in workers providing health.
Project Manager Maria Froese was hired in October 2024, and Clinic Manager Gwen Rawlins was hired in March, as progress was being made to the Limited Medical Clinic open.
Originally from Sublette, Froese went to school in Garden City, and she said she feels working at a pregnancy center like Grace Place was always something in the works for her.
There are many stray animals in need of a home and soon, the Liberal Animal Shelter will be joining a big effort to help with just that.
The Liberal Animal Shelter will be teaming up with Best Friends Animal Society, a national animal welfare organization working to save the lives of dogs and cats in U.S. animal shelters, to participate in a nationwide adoption event Saturday, Oct. 18 to celebrate the Kansas Adopt-a-Shelter-Dog Proclamation issued by Gov. Laura Kelly to highlight the vital role pet adoption plays in building no-kill communities. The shelter will be joining many other shelters across the state by reducing adoption fees to $10 for altered dogs to get more pets out of shelters and into adoptive homes.
The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) is seeking input from the public on regional transportation priorities at Local Consult meetings across the state in October.
“This is an opportunity for our residents to voice their specific transportation needs and priorities directly to the decision makers at KDOT. Your input is needed to help KDOT shape the future of our transportation system and make improvements that benefit our communities,” said Joe Finley, District 6 Engineer. “I strongly encourage everyone to participate and help us to design and build an improved and efficient transportation system that will serve our future needs in southwest Kansas.”
It is officially Halloween season, which means it is time for people to go to their local pumpkin patch and select that perfect jack-o-lantern to carve up.
Pumpkin Paradise, LLC, located at 1853 Road 100 in Sublette, is one such pumpkin patch open for the season, and she said there is a lot of excitement in the air.
“We’re so excited to be open, we’re really happy to have a good pumpkin crop this year for people to choose from and we even added a couple new attractions like the big Adirondack chair for photos, tug-of-war, and we also hid some pumpkins in the corn maze,” owner Janet Weidner said. “There’s also a space in the gift shop where you can get your ‘pumpkin name,’ and we’ve got more merchandise in there for shoppers. We started planting everything in early June and we spent most of the summer babying everything and watching everything grow. We were thankful to get the rain we did, that really helped with the pumpkins’ growing and the weeds’ growing, which we weren’t as thrilled about, but we just work at it every day. We don’t have our usual Sasquatch pumpkin this year since none of them grew quite that big, but we definitely have enough pumpkins for people to choose from.”
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