The 15th Annual Barton Community College Foundation Sporting Clay Shoot is set for April 27 at Camp Aldrich, offering participants a day of friendly competition while raising funds for a great cause.

Barton Community College will host student recitals at 4:30 p.m. April 2, 16, and 30 in the Dorothy Moses Morrison Chapel in the Fine Arts Building. The recitals are free and open to the public.

The Barton Music Department will present a choral concert alongside the Central Kansas Community Choir, and the Hutchinson Community College Choir for two performances of Gabriel Faure’s “Requiem Mass,” at 7:30 p.m. April 4 in the Fine Arts Auditorium on the Barton Campus and again on April 6 at 2 p.m. at St. Teresa’s Catholic Church in Hutchinson.

Potential students will have an opportunity to gear up for the fall semester during Barton’s popular “Enrollment Day” sessions, which start on April 15 and will continue throughout the summer.

Otherworldly 3D art will be front and center at the Shafer Gallery’s “Sci-Fi Ceramics” event, led by artist John Hamilton April 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Ceramics Lab, in the Technical Building, room T-151.

Barton’s Shafer Art Gallery will open its “Vortex Day,” art show March 10 featuring a variety of 2D and 3D pieces from local high school artists from across the region.

The drought monitor report as of Tuesday, February 25th continues to show slight improvement.

Being an active-duty member of the military equates to a hectic lifestyle, and oftentimes, soldiers are so preoccupied with their daily tasks and training that getting a college education is the last thing on their minds, but even with his schedule full of military obligations, Isaias Hernandez graduated with his associate degree from Barton Community College at Fort Riley in December.

The drought monitor report as of Tuesday, February 18th continues to show slight improvement.