The Dodge City Community College Conquistador cheer squad left their mark at their first year attending the Region VI Championship at Hutchinson Community College on March 7, being named Grand Champions of the Event. The Conquistadors brought home three championship wins in total. The Conquistador’s biggest win was the small co-ed division championship which was the lar...
A missing persons report has been filed with the Garden City Police Department and people are encouraged to report anything regarding the whereabouts of 17-year old Autumn Star Doyle. Autumn was last seen on March 4 at around 7 p.m. in Garden City, Kans in the 1300 block of Summit Street, specifically 1310 Summit Street. The official report lists Autumn Doyle's gender as ...
Garden City Police Department officers were dispatched to the Emergency Room at St. Catherine Hospital for a prior aggravated battery on March 6 around 7:25 p.m. GCPD officers met with a woman who said she was walking the 400 block of Pennsylvania Ave. when she was shot by an unknown suspect. The woman was treated and released from the ER. This inve...
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack made the following statement on March 5, regarding the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act by the U.S. Senate. “I am grateful to the U.S. Senate for passing the American Rescue Plan today to bring much-needed nutrition assistance and financial relief to millions of families struggling to pay the bills and put healthy food on the table. President B...
Officers with the Garden City Police Department were dispatched to 1404 W. Fulton St. Apt. 4 on March 7 at around 7 p.m. to a call that a man had been shot in the head. The man was identified as 32-year old Victor Cabrera of Garden City. Upon police discovering Cabrera with a gunshot wound to his head, he was transported by Finney County EMS to St. Catherine Hospita...
Student Councils at Comanche Middle School (CMS) and Dodge City Middle School (DCMS) donated funds from their Valentine’s Day flower sale to the Friends of Wright Park Zoo (FWPZ), aiding theirs and the City of Dodge City’s Re-Do the Zoo Campaign. Funds also went towards the Adopt-An-Animal program. Each year the Student Councils at CMS and DCMS discuss ways to impact ...
More than 6,000 National Beef employees in Dodge City, Kan., and Liberal, Kan., are now eligible and have started receiving COVID-19 vaccinations as of March 5. This comes following the announcement on March 4 that meat processing workers are now a priority for vaccine distribution in Kansas. Governor Laura Kelly, Tim Klein, CEO of National Beef, UFCW Local 2, and other l...
[GARDEN CITY, Kansas] Courtney Prewitt has been named Chief of Police for the Garden City Police Department and as of March 29, will fill the post, once vacated by the retirement of Chief Michael Utz. Prewitt has served with the GCPD since May 1999, originally joining as a patrol officer before moving through the ranks to captain of the patrol division in 2013 The City of Garden City cond...
[MEADE, Kansas] Fishermen are invited to register for the Meade State Park 2021 Trout Derby fishing competition until March 20, the day of the competition. After being forced to modify the Trout Derby as a virtual tournament last year due to the still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the competition will take place in person. Anyone ages 16 and older with a valid fishing license and trout permi...
Dodge City Commissioners’ unanimously approved the 2021 Street Program at the March 2 Commissioners’ meeting. Partial funding of these projects will come from the City’s Special Streets Fund, while the remaining $4,698,375 worth of funds needed to complete the present program will come from General Obligation Bonds (GOB). The Finance Director and other staff wil...
