Best of Garden City: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is Best of Garden City and who runs it?

Best of Garden City is a community business vote for Garden City, Kansas. The Garden City Telegram runs it in partnership with CherryRoad Media, which hosts the event page where nominations and votes take place. The program is framed as a best-of contest for local businesses.

Because the newspaper runs the event, its timeline and winners announcement are the authoritative sources. The CherryRoad event page carries the working timeline for each round, so readers should use it for dates rather than relying on memory of earlier years.

When do the nomination and voting rounds run, and which years are confirmed?

Editions for 2022, 2024 and 2025 are confirmed. The 2025 cycle is the one with a full timeline in the material: the nomination round ran from July 28 to August 10, and the voting round ran from September 1 to 14, 2025.

The winners announcement closes the event, and the material gives a date for it that differs between sources, so no date for it is given here. The 2026 dates are not printed in the material used here, so the current window is missing; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How does a supporter take part in each round today?

A supporter first uses the nomination round to name Garden City businesses worth considering. In the voting round that follows, the same event page lists the nominated businesses so that supporters can pick their favorites from them.

The material does not describe the nomination form, the number of picks a voter may make, or whether an account is needed, so those points are left to the event page. Nomination and voting are the two mechanics stated with confidence here.

No per-voter limit or daily rule appears in the text behind this section, so none can be stated. The event page's instructions for each round are the place to check the current terms before voting.

Readers who want to follow a year from start to finish should watch the nomination round first, because the businesses named there become the choices in the voting round. A business that does not appear in the second round has no place on the final list, so the first round sets the field the public then judges.

How does Best of Garden City sit beside other Kansas best-of ballots?

Best of Garden City sits beside several Kansas best-of and community votes in this set. Its distinguishing feature is that a local newspaper runs a two-round business vote for one city, rather than a county, a metro market or a readers' vote on a broader scale.

The clearest contrast is the organizer and the market. This event is a Garden City newspaper vote, while the siblings are tied to other Kansas cities or to a magazine and platform of their own.

How can a Garden City business build support for its nomination?

A newspaper-run business vote responds best to outreach that keeps to the event rules. A business can tell customers and partners that nominations are open during the nomination round, then remind them to vote during the voting round on the event page. The strongest case a business can make is its own service to Garden City, which people can judge for themselves.

Commercial vote packages exist for many community contests, yet the Garden City material says nothing about purchased votes, and an outside seller cannot predict how the Telegram would count them. Review the event rules first, then read how paid vote options are described before making any decision. For free ways to encourage support, the guide to getting more votes online covers outreach that respects a ballot's instructions.

Owners who want to thank supporters can do so through their own channels once the winners announcement is published, and the Telegram's coverage gives them a public moment to point to. Such thanks should describe the work done for customers rather than the vote tally, since the event's own announcement sets the result.

Businesses that are new to the Telegram's event should read the 2025 timeline first, since it is the cycle with the fullest dates in the material. Comparing it with the confirmed 2022 and 2024 editions shows the event's shape over time, while the 2026 window waits for the organizer to post it. Planning around the published rounds, rather than around an assumed calendar, keeps expectations tied to what the event actually states.

Readers who want the fastest route to the current event should bookmark the CherryRoad page, since the Telegram's own announcements link back to it and the round timeline is kept there.