News
Dighton Elementary School staff and students have been able to adapt to fewer classrooms due to unexpected delays in the completion of a new HVAC system.
In a unanimous vote by the Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center (WKCAC) board of directors, the Safe Child Event Center in Scott City will remain open as a public meeting facility.
Union Pacific’s stranglehold on rail transportation in the region is costing agricultural producers access to more markets and higher prices for their commodities, according to a federal lawsuit.
Out of sight, out of mind might be the best way to describe the new cell phone policy now in effect at Scott Community High School.
Sports
The Scott Community High School varsity offense offered plenty to feel optimistic about during last Saturday’s controlled scrimmage.
The Scott Community High School football team will be competing against Garden City High School and Wichita Southeast in a Jamboree on Fri., Aug. 28, at the GCHS field.
The SCHS volleyball team will travel to Oakley for a season opening triangular against the Lady Plainsmen and Wallace County on Fri., Aug. 28.
After dropping a pair of matches in tie-breakers, SCHS volleyball head coach Shelby Feely was not discouraged following Tuesday’s Jamboree on the home court.
The numbers are down for the SCHS girl’s cross-country team, but the depth should be enough for them to contend for yet another trip to the Class 3A state meet.
Columns & Opinions
It’s not easy being a politician these days. In fact, it’s downright dangerous.
Or so says Doc Marshall.
By Rod Haxton, Editor Rod Haxton Can Be Reached At Editor@screcord.com
Cattlemen and ranchers have been wailing about how, despite their steadfast loyalty to Donald Trump, he has stabbed them in the back with this week’s announcement that he was allowing 300,000 metri
another view
Sofia Leyba Immigration officers have fired on at least 30 people since President Trump returned to office. Eight of those people were killed.
Whenever I hear it said on TV that the Dallas Cowboys are “America’s Team,” it always makes me wonder, according to whom?
By Rod Haxton, Editor Rod Haxton Can Be Reached At Editor@screcord.com
Lifestyle
Ten-year-old Duke Ommert died after an electric scooter crash in Leawood last year when a car struck him as he crossed the street mid-block.
By Grace Hills Kansas News Service
Hundreds of pesticides are legal, but that doesn’t mean that their impacts on health are fully understood. Cleaning produce before eating it reduces your exposure.
By Celia Llopis-jepsen Harvest Public Media
MANHATTAN - Included in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s sobering statistics on injuries and death in older adults due to falls are four very important words.
Anesthesiology is the branch of medicine committed to pain relief and patient care before, during, and after surgery and other procedures.
By Andrew Ellsworth, M.d.
WASHINGTON - Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged during his confirmation hearing to do everything in his “power to put the health of America back on track.”
By Jennifer Shutt The Kansas Reflector
Obituaries
Terry Lee Ives, 68, died August 22, 2026. He was born April 7, 1958.
His funeral service will be Sat., August 29, at Countryside Christian Church, 1919 S. Rock Rd., Wichita.
Abram Friesen Wiebe, 54, died August 19, 2026, at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City.
Larry Evan Turley, 64, died August 17, 2026, at his home in Hoxie.
He was born on December 6, 1961, in Scott City, the son of Gary Earl Turley, Sr., and Catherine Ann (Bennett) Turley.
Roger Allen Cooley, 81, died August 1, 2026, at the Scott County Hospital, Scott City.
He was born on April 11, 1945, in Larned, the son of Glenn and Dorothy (Grate) Cooley.
Yvonne Luene Anderson, 81, York, Nebr., died July 31, 2026.
Yvonne was born on February 28, 1945, in Dodge City, to Wilford and Jennie Billings.
The Scott County Record
PO Box 377
Scott City, KS 67871
Phone: 620-872-2090
Fax: 620-872-0009