News
In a special meeting on Thursday afternoon, Scott County commissioners voted unanimously to mandate the wearing of masks.
A unique opportunity to see the Perseid meteor shower at Little Jerusalem/Badlands State Park will be offered on Thurs., Aug. 13.
Everett Green is like most Midwesterners.
He’s a Republican. He voted for Donald Trump. And he was somewhat skeptical about the coronavirus pandemic.
Restaurants and motels in Scott City will be the primary recipients of $132,000 in coronavirus relief funds approved this week by the Scott County Development Committee.
During a special meeting on Monday morning, the Scott County Commission voted to opt out of Gov.
Sports
There will be some new faces on the sideline when the fall sports season begins for Scott Community High School and Scott City Middle School athletes.
The difference between good wrestlers and great wrestlers are the little things.
Athletes in the major universities have been making their voices heard in recent years in an attempt to get a piece of the revenue pie generated through sports - primarily football and basketball.
By Rod Haxton
As badly as we want to have sports this fall, the MLB’s Florida Marlins is showing just how difficult that’s going to be.
By Rod Haxton, Sports Editor
During their high school careers, Brett Meyer and Kelly (Wycoff) Meyer were among the track elite in Kansas.
Columns & Opinions
Despite an abundance of wishful thinking, COVID-19 didn’t disappear during the summer and it’s not fading away this fall.
You have to give Republicans their due.
When it comes to governing, they do a miserable job except when taking care of their wealthiest donors and Wall Street bankers.
By Rod Haxton, Editor
While “social distancing” is now the rule in public schools and on university campuses, the term “social disconnect” is now being used for the failure of online education to provide the connections
By John Schrock
Prescription drugs have long provided two bad examples of American exceptionalism.
By Another View Dean Baker And Gerald Scorse
Lifestyle
TOPEKA - Haley Kottler sees firsthand desperation of young families struggling to put food on the table as the economy wilts under the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Noah Taborda Kansas Reflector
Adolescence is a difficult stage for both teens and their parents.
By The American Counseling Association
WICHITA - More than 26,000 people in Kansas have contracted COVID-19. Roughly 350 of them have died.
By Brian Grimmett
TOPEKA - Gov.
By Tim Carpenter Kansas Reflector
A new Kansas Department of Health and Environment policy makes lung cancer screenings available at little to no cost for Medicaid recipients at high risk of the disease.
Obituaries
Salena S. Nichols, 99, died August 2, 2020, at the Bethel Home in Montezuma.
She was born on June 12, 1921, in Halstead, the daughter of Peter A. and Susanna (Nightengale) Johnson.
Marion V. Garman, 90, died Fri., July 31, 2020, at Trinity Nursing and Rehab in Merriam.
Marion was born March 19, 1930, in Turon, the son of Charles and Maudie (Ruckman) Garman.
Mary Elizabeth Clark (Boulware), 85, died on July 29, 2020, at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City. She was born on Feb.
Gloria Nan Hostetler, 84, died July 24, 2020, at Country Living in Anthony.
Gloria was born in Hutchinson, on April 24, 1936, the oldest child of Emery and Bernice (Miller) Bontrager.
Mary Elizabeth (Boulware) Clark died on July 29, 2020, at the Scott County Hospital.
The Scott County Record
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Scott City, KS 67871
Phone: 620-872-2090
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