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Submitted The Hays Community Theatre is looking for actors to assist in the annual Haunted Hays City Historic Tours. The tour takes guests through a guided walking tour of old Hays City, featuring past figures including horseback riders, saloon girls and more ghostly guests.

The Hays Public Library will be hosting a number of events throughout the month, including their annual HPL Foundation Wine and Cheese Fundraiser. The fundraiser will take place Saturday evening, with a presentation by the Kansas Sampler Foundation’s Executive Director Marci Penner.

Thomas More Prep-Marian High School (TMPMarian) is going back to the future with the piloting of a new boarding program for its students on the campus of Fort Hays State University (FHSU). TMP-Marian previously housed boarding students for over 80 years until 2014 when the decision was made to close the Catholic secondary school’s dormitories.

On September 26, 7:14 pm, the DART satellite will slam into the asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits a larger asteroid named Didymos at the speed of 15,000 mph. Picture a vending machine hitting the pyramid of Giza.

The Ellis County Public Works Road & Bridge division is announcing that a culvert replacement will be taking place in the 1700th block of Hyacinth. This is located between Fairground Road and Feedlot Road. This two-mile stretch will be closed to through traffic beginning at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, September 12, 2022, and will remain closed until the project is completed. The expected completion date will be October 3, 2022, pending weather conditions. Motorists traveling in the affected closure area should use alternate routes of travel until the project is complete. Please direct any questions to the Ellis County Public Works Road & Bridge division at (785)-628-9455. Your cooperation during this project is appreciated.

A national government advocacy group says Republican gubernatorial candidate Derek Schmidt deserves scrutiny for taking campaign contributions from law firms who received contracts from him as attorney general.

By Tim Carpenter Kansas Reflector Mobile platforms for legal sports gambling in Kansas proved so enticing that more than 16,000 people in Missouri tried to place wagers in the first weekend of live betting. As those cross-border residents discovered, many of whom were located in the Kansas City, Missouri, the gambling law established by Kansas required a person to be somewhere within the state’s 82,000-square-mile domain to place an online bet.

This Saturday will commemorate the 12th Annual Free Spirit 5K/10K Run, honoring the memory of Jordyn Claiborn who was killed in a car accident on September 11, 2009. Claiborn, often called “Jordy” by friends and family was a Hays High School student at the time of her passing.