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Panther Tales

The student news site of Great Bend High School

Panther Tales

The student news site of Great Bend High School

Panther Tales

GBHS Principal Retires After 41 Years

GBHS Principal Retires After 41 Years

Alyvia Grabast, Writer March 5, 2024

Tim Friess, Great Bend High School’s Principal, is retiring after 41 years of working in the district 428. His journey to become principal for GBHS was fairly long but let me walk you through it. Friess...

Strikes in the Medical Field

Strikes in the Medical Field

Ellie Newman February 18, 2024

Many students at Great Bend High School plan on going into the medical field like juniors, Briley Richter, Adrianna Estes, and Ally Howard.  Richter is planning on becoming a speech pathologist in...

GBHS Phone Policy

GBHS Phone Policy

Ellie Newman January 2, 2024

At Great Bend High School the 'new' phone policy took place at the start of the 2023-2024 school year but is this policy new or has it just not been enforced in past years? Is the phone policy affecting...

Epilepsy Awareness Month

Epilepsy Awareness Month

Ellie Newman November 27, 2023

November is epilepsy awareness month, and as such 450,000 of the nearly 3 million diagnosed Americans are under the age of 17 and are forced to face their peers with their disorder! Did you know kids with...

Great Bend High School Wrestling Season Closing in

Great Bend High School Wrestling Season Closing in

Ellie Newman November 12, 2023

The 2023 Wrestling season is on the horizon with many people in preparation at Great Bend High School. With GBHS's past Coach, Nathan Broeckelman having left last year when offered a job coaching at Barton...

Great Bend Panthers Varsity Volleyball Team, GBHS

Nachtigal Scoops 1,000 Career Digs

Alyvia Grabast, Writer October 19, 2023

Thursday, October fifth, was an exciting night for the Great Bend Panthers Volleyball team as Macy Nachtigal reached her 1,000th career dig. Just to clarify, a dig is when a player on one side of the net...

Great Bend High Students Call For A Change!

Great Bend High Students Call For A Change!

Savanah Bingaman, Author October 9, 2023

Did you know that girls could only wear skirts, no yoga pants, no jeans, only skirts at one point in history?  The dress code is very out of date, the current one we have hasn’t been re-written in more...

Fall Breeze and Autumn Leaves

Fall Breeze and Autumn Leaves

Alissa Richardson, Writer October 5, 2023

Fall breeze and Autumn Leaves How do you feel about fall? Do you like the different colored leaves falling and brushing against you? Have you ever wondered why or how they get their colors? If so then...

Panther Student Juggles Two Sports at Once!

Panther Student Juggles Two Sports at Once!

Ellie Newman October 4, 2023

Can you imagine being a varsity athlete for two sports at once? Well, Great Bend High School senior Mackenzie Premer, started her very first season of cross country this year on varsity! And Premer is...

Pinch Pot by: Brooke Bodine, Freshman

Creating Better Things

Alyvia Grabast, Writer October 4, 2023

What do you do in your free time? If you’re one of those people who love being creative, then this story is for you. Great Bend High School’s Intro to Visual Design class, taught by second year teacher,...

Another Play Is On the Way

Another Play Is On the Way

Savanah Bingaman, Author October 4, 2023

Theater is something that seems to be forgotten about a lot when it comes to news and grants and things etc. The Great Bend theater department is the same way, they have many things that need to be replaced...

Alien Corpses in Mexico City

Alien Corpses in Mexico City

Steven Guillory October 4, 2023

Aliens. Whether they come from the mouth of a man of questionable sanity on the History Channel, or a close relative, these E.T’s have always been on the minds of people since the dawn of creation. And...

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