Coming off a 24-day layoff from competition following a groin pull at the April 15 Tom Gilmore Relays in Ashland, Greensburg’s Kacey Fulton made a strong return at Friday’s league meet in Spearville, racking up 28 points for her Lady Rangers with gold performances in the 100 meters, long jump and a second in the 200.  The GHS girls finished with a total of 74 points, good enough for second to Minneola’s 118.

   Just as residents have been hit in the wake of last year’s tornado with insurance coverage shortfalls and gaps, so does the cold water of reality affect government in the same manner, as explained by Emergency Preparedness Director Ray Stegman at last week’s county commission meeting.

   Describing the more-than-hundred page document as an attempt to set guidelines for land use and direction for upcoming development decisions, BNIM’s Steve Hardy handed copies of a rough draft of Phase II of Greensburg’s Master Plan to the newly comprised city council last week before hitting highlights of the details inside the cover.

   Though he may be known to only a few residents of Kiowa County at this time, Bob Fraga (pronounced frog-uh) could approach being a household name a year from now, as Greensburg gathers to mark the second anniversary of its near annihilation by a killer tornado.

   The U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced Friday a $2.3 million investment to the city of Greensburg.  The investment will help rebuild the central four blocks of Main Street and is expected to create 30 jobs and generate $3 million in private investment.

   For the second time since the town-leveling tornado of a year ago, Greensburg High School bestowed diplomas this weekend on its graduating seniors in a setting no one could have foreseen prior to that stormy night.