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Barton County's Largest and Oldest Weekly Newspaper since 1889 A member of the Kansas Press Association. Published weekly by Main Street Media

03/03/2026

𝙃𝙤𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙤𝙣 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝘼𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙋𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙎𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙡𝙚
To better serve our readers and accommodate evolving industry needs, the Hoisington Dispatch is announcing a shift in our weekly delivery and availability.

Due to necessary changes in the press schedule, the Hoisington Dispatch will be arriving in mailboxes and on newsstands one day later starting the week of March 1st. Moving forward, our publication day will shift from Thursday to Friday.

For our local readers, this change is designed to be as seamless as possible. Because we will continue to drop papers at the post office overnight, residents on local Hoisington routes can expect their delivery to remain consistent with the new Friday schedule. For our valued subscribers living out of town, your mail delivery will also shift by one day, arriving just in time for your weekend reading.

Newsstands at Town & Country Supermarket will be stocked every Friday morning, ensuring you have the latest local headlines as you head into the weekend.

While schedule changes require an adjustment, this move brings significant benefits to our newsroom and our readers. The primary advantage of a Friday publication is the ability to provide more timely and relevant local news.

While schedule changes require an adjustment, this move brings significant benefits to our newsroom and our readers. It allows us to write about important occurrences that take place at the beginning of the week and get them into your hands by Friday.

By moving our print window, we have gained the ability to:

𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀: During election cycles, we will be able to deliver results to your doorstep just days after the polls close.

𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀: This shift allows us to capture and include important community events that happen early in the week, ensuring our reporting is as timely as possible.

𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀
It is important to note that all deadlines for legals, classifieds, or advertisements remain the same. While the delivery day is shifting, our internal processing schedule ensures your notices and ads are prepared with the same care and lead time as always.

We appreciate the continued support of our Hoisington community as we make this transition. Our commitment to being your primary source for local news remains our top priority, and we look forward to seeing you on Fridays starting March 1st.

12/06/2025

2025 Sports in Kansas Non-Senior Defensive Player of the Year – Small Classes (3A & Below)

Brody Pfannenstiel – DE/TE, Hoisington High School, Jr.

At 6’4”, 225 pounds, Hoisington junior Brody Pfannenstiel delivered another dominant two-way season, emerging as one of the most physically imposing underclassmen in Kansas small-class football. Already well known as a freshman and sophomore pass-rushing force at Russell HS, Pfannenstiel elevated his game again in 2025 with playmaking on both sides of the ball for a Cardinal program that remained among Kansas’ toughest.

This fall, Pfannenstiel totaled 54 tackles, 4 sacks, 3 forced fumbles and a fumble recovery, while also contributing major offensive production with 464 receiving yards and 6 TDs, plus 326 rushing yards and 6 more scores. The unanimous all-league selection now owns 145+ career tackles and 17 sacks through just three seasons, establishing himself as one of the state’s premier defensive prospects in the Class of 2027.

A multi-positional mismatch with national recruiting attention, Pfannenstiel holds offers from Minnesota, Kansas State, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan State, and Duke. Known for his faith and humility, he credits his success to hard work, family support, and his favorite verse, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.” The Cardinals’ future remains bright with one of Kansas’ top young defenders leading the charge.

10/14/2025

🗳️ Hoisington Voters: Meet Your Mayoral Candidates! 🗳️
Decisions are coming soon, so get to know the candidates running for Mayor!

The Hoisington Dispatch has asked all three mayoral candidates the same five critical questions. We'll be publishing their answers in three installments over the next few weeks:

📰 Check your weekly Dispatch on:
October 16th
October 23rd
October 30th

Don't miss this chance to hear their platforms and plans for our city! Get informed before you vote!

09/04/2025

He has ‘eased’ his last ‘T’, he has ‘jinxed’ his last ‘Hi’, he has ‘played’ his last ‘Horse’, and he has ‘ganned’ his last ‘Shenan’. The little boy that made his mother chase him through the sticker patch to avoid his punishment has finally outrun us all. Larry Linsner ended his mischievous ways surrounded by his loving family on Monday, September 1, 2025.

He was an ornery and beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. He entertained us all with his antics and he will be dearly missed. Beyond his playfulness was a heart of pure gold.

Larry grew up in Hoisington, Kansas where he met and married his wife, Charlotte. He was a track star and set school records for distance running. He worked for Kansas Brick and Tile in Barton County for several years, before he moved to Wichita for a few years and worked for Boeing. He moved back to the area and worked for Brestler and later Peterson and Vaughn in Great Bend, Kansas where he learned the plumbing trade and he was proud of the fact that he worked on the high rise building and the Community College in Great Bend, as well as many other local projects throughout Kansas, including helping to plumb the technical school in Liberal, Kansas. Larry moved his family to Goodland, Kansas where he taught plumbing at the Vocational Technical school for many years. He eventually opened his own successful plumbing business and there was never a Thanksgiving, Easter, or Christmas meal where he and his family didn’t have an emergency plumbing call that he answered willingly.

Larry was born on August 4, 1938, in Great Bend, Kansas at St Rose Hospital to Robert Linsner and Lois Ehly. He grew up on the family farm north of Hoisington, Kansas. In 1952, he attended the Catholic Divine Word Seminary school in East Troy, Wisconsin where he strived to make his grandparents and parents proud of him. Larry was not great at following rules. While in seminary school, Larry would sneak out at night into the adjoining woods and set illegal rabbit traps. The priests and monks (like everyone who knew Larry) looked the other way when he would bring the rabbits that he caught back to the seminary and the monks would cook them for all the students to enjoy. On a train ride home Larry sat next to a very pretty girl and decided she “smelled really nice” and determined that a life of priesthood was probably not for him.

Larry was widely known for being the guy that ‘would give you the shirt off his back’. He was a generous and charitable soul who volunteered for many causes and would help anyone he ever met. He never knew a stranger. His friend Terry Riedel recounted the first time he ever met Larry was when he was repairing a fence on his farm north of Walker. Larry happened to be driving past his farm and stopped to help. Terry had no idea who Larry was and mentioned to him that he wouldn’t be able to pay him. Larry’s response was “I didn’t ask for any darn money!” They were friends for over 20 years after this auspicious meeting.

Larry is survived by his brothers, Jim and Joe Linsner, his two sisters Pam Redetzke and Rhonda Herman, his three children Bruce Linsner, Lynn DiPlacito, and LeAnn Pidcock, his five grandchildren, Kaycie Naglowsky, Chaelyn Hamann, Christian Flanders, Chelsey DiPlacito, and Dylan Pidcock, also one great-grandchild, Aerick Naglowsky. He was preceded in death by his wife Charlotte Linsner, his two brothers, Robert and Patrick Linsner, his sister Ann Schenk, his grandchild Robert Linsner, and his son Brian Linsner.

In his later years, Larry who was an avid hunter and fisherman, retired with his wife Charlotte to Walker, Kansas and he spent the last 30 years of his life catching as many fish as he could from area lakes, hosting local fish fries, and volunteering for local community causes including Options in Hays for victims of domestic violence. Larry was an active member of and served on the parish council for the St. Ann Catholic Church in Walker, Kansas.

We will miss his strength, his spirit, and most of all his infectious laughter. He taught us all to smile through the heartache and laugh through the tears.

Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, September 6, 2025, at the Catholic cemetery in Hoisington, Kansas with Father Curtis presiding. Lunch to follow at St. Ann Catholic Church school at 1275 Walker Ave, Walker, Kansas.

08/25/2025

🚨 Subscriber Notice 🚨
Some of our readers may not have received the August 21 edition of the Hoisington Dispatch due to a delivery issue. We apologize for the inconvenience.

👉 If you missed your paper, please contact us so we can take care of it.

Thank you for your patience and support!

— The Hoisington Dispatch

05/19/2025

Storms moving into central Kansas have a history of producing tornadoes and golf ball size hail.

04/30/2025

The pavement replacement project on K-4 is moving forward but there have been some changes to the planned phasing of the project. The first phase of the project is underway. Under the revised phasing plan, the next portion/phase of the project will involve the center section of the pavement.

During the next phase of the project, the north lane will carry traffic to the west and the south lane will carry traffic to the east. Traffic will still not be able to cross the highway to the north or south. Traffic from the north and south will be able to enter K-4 during the second phase but will be limited in the direction they can travel. All traffic from the north and south in the construction area will only be able to turn right onto K-4 when they get into the traffic area.

Under the revised plan, the south lane will be the final phase of the project. The revised phasing is not expected to extend the project which is scheduled to be complete in mid-August. That being said, other variables (weather, soil conditions, utility issues, etc.) may impact the project's completion date.

Thank you for your patience and understanding during this challenging project. Please help to and about the project.

04/22/2025

USD 431 Names New Superintendent Trenton Horn

April 23, 2025

HOISINGTON, Kan. – The USD Board of Education has announced the selection of Trenton Horn as the new superintendent. Horn will take the reins on July 1, 2025, after the departure of current superintendent Patrick Crowdis at the end of the 2024-2025 school year.

Horn has broad educational experience as a teacher and an administrator. Horn is currently serving as superintendent for USD 452 Stanton County Schools in Johnson City, Kansas. He is in his sixth year in that position. Previously, he served as a middle school principal at Chapman Middle School in Chapman, Kansas, for three years, a 7-12 building principal at Valley Heights High School in Blue Rapids, Kansas, and as an agricultural education instructor and FFA advisor at Chapman High School, Linn High School and Hanover High School.

Board President Becky Mooney noted that Horn emerged from a quick, but thorough search process for the right candidate to lead the school district.

“The Board of Education is certain in our choice of Trenton Horn and confident that under his leadership USD 431 will continue to work collaboratively with our community to build a bright future for every student,” Mooney said.

Mooney explained that community input, especially that from teachers, administrators, parents and community members who participated in the community survey, targeted focus groups and public meet and greets with the two finalists, was a key factor in the success of the superintendent search process.

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