Western Plains Cat Tracks Western Plains High School Ransom, KS
Issue Date: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 Issue: February 2011 Last Update: Wednesday, February 09, 2011
  • Editorial Cartoon

    Wednesday, February 09, 2011 By: Kate Hagans

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  • FBLA competes in district conference

    Wednesday, February 09, 2011 By: Kate Hagans

    RANSOM — On Jan. 22 Beth Lutters, Dakota Foos, Britny Pfannenstiel, Bryada Martinez, Kate Hagans and Katie Bretton all traveled to Liberal, Kan., to compete in the District Future Business Leaders of

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  • Flax enjoys seeing students improve, mature

    Wednesday, February 09, 2011 By: Gram Darnell

    Pat Flax has been teaching in Ransom for 15 years. Eight of those years were at Ransom High School, and she is on her seventh year of teaching at Western Plains High School.

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  • New law bans texting while driving

    Wednesday, February 09, 2011 By: Katie Bretton

    As of Jan.1, if you are caught texting while driving in Kansas, you are automatically fined $60 for this crime. Governor Mark Parkinson started out his new year by signing this law into effect for 20

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  • WPHS hires new football coach

    Wednesday, February 09, 2011 By: Joel Hernandez

    RANSOM — The Western Plains football team will be hiring a new football coach for the 2011-2012 season. Todd Vogts, the former football coach, was demoted. Vogts is now being asked to be the assista

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At-a-glance

Jr. High basketball season proves complicated
BAZINE — This basketball season for the Western Plains Junior High has been a complicated story. The Lady Bobcats have been seeing success on the court, but the Bobcat Boys have been struggling to fin
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Are seat belt laws really necessary?
The first thing most people do when they enter their vehicle is strap on that seat belt before even turning on the vehicle.
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RANSOM — The Western Plains High School boys’ basketball team has had a tough season.
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NESS COUNTY — At Western Plains there are several concerts coming up in the spring with the junior high and high school.
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Censoring history, classic literature stifles creativity
NewSouth Books is coming out with a new edition of “Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain that is said to be released in mid-February. This version has replaced “the N word” with slave.
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Evel: ‘I just live my life day to day’
Sarah Evel is a junior at Western Plains High School. Her life is simple, but definitely not boring.
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RANSOM — On Jan. 22 Beth Lutters, Dakota Foos, Britny Pfannenstiel, Bryada Martinez, Kate Hagans and Katie Bretton all traveled to Liberal, Kan., to compete in the District Future Business Leaders of
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Flax enjoys seeing students improve, mature
Pat Flax has been teaching in Ransom for 15 years. Eight of those years were at Ransom High School, and she is on her seventh year of teaching at Western Plains High School.
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RANSOM —There has been a lot of talk lately about a possible golf team. Recently the Western Plain Board of Education agreed on allowing students to play golf in a cooperative agreement with Trego Co
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