Sports reporter, Colby (Kan.) Free Press

Company: Colby Free Press
Position: sports reporter
Location: Colby, Kansas
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Negotiable
Ad Expires: May 14, 2007
Job ID: 763474
Website: http://www.nwkansas.com


Description:
Help Wanted: Sportswriter The Colby Free Press, a four-days-a-week afternoon daily in northwest Kansas needs a sportswriter for three high schools and Colby Community College, all in one county. The high schools have state-tournament quality teams and the college always send wrestlers to the national tournament. Plenty of game stories and features. We use Pagemaker and Photoshop on Macs. Colby has all the necessities in a town of about 6,000 people and is the go-to town in northwest Kansas. Just three hours to Denver, Colo. Please send resume, samples of writing and references to, John Van Nostrand, publisher, 155 W. Fifth St., Colby, Kan. 67701 or jvannostrand@nwkansas.com


Just wondering what four days do four-days-a-week papers publish on? This one sounds like a starter for someone fresh out of school.

 

Re: Somewhere over the rainbow...

Im fresh out of college.

What about tornadoes...as we all know, tornadoes are the deadliest of mother nature's storms

 

Re: Somewhere over the rainbow...

Oh, yes. And what about the Wicked Witch?

 

Re: Somewhere over the rainbow...

Auntie Em! Auntie Em!

 

Re: Somewhere over the rainbow...

The "go-to town" in NW Kansas. Yeeeeeeehawwwww!

The go-to town in west Kansas is Dodge City, and the place to be is at Ma and Pa's Pool Hall drinking Bud at 11 a.m. The go-to town in east Kansas is Fort Scott, for the Bourbon County Fair. Ain't no party like a Bourbon County Fair party.

 

Didn't take long for an "Oz" reference, did it? Second post. What took so long?

 

Colby is the kind of town that gives Kansas the reputation of being flat, dusty and desolate. People driving I-70 trying to get to Denver or somewhere else forget about KC, Lawrence, the Flint Hills and even Salina by the time they get to Colby all they remember is the three hours of nothingness they just drove through.

It's way out there. I don't know anything about the paper, but Colby isn't too bad if you don't mind being isolated. Of course it isn't far from Benkelman, Neb., so it's got that going for it.

 

You probably won't be able to commute from from Overland Park.

 

Colby's a town people in Great Bend would make fun of for being small and in the middle of no where.

That's not good.

Still, at least it has the community college.

 

Colby ... ewwww. There is a Village Inn there, but that's about it. And at least it isn't Goodland or Kanorado.

 

If you're curious about Colby, watch CBS at 8 p.m. on Wednesday nights.

 

Might I ask why?