Rockalooa returns to Hays next Saturday with a line up including The Fey, Vehicles, Starslinger, Stone the Thrones, 2Twenty2, Tree Kitty, Miles on End, Flyover, 80 Proof Alice and Mid-Engine. The eighth annual festival will include music, art, food trucks, a beer garden and yard games, fun for all ages.
Last week, the USD388 School Board Administration sent the 2022 Bond to polls. The $4.55 million bond issue will provide updates and repairs to both Ellis Junior/Senior High School and Washington Elementary.
Hays High StuCo is working tirelessly to put together a homecoming week that emulates what it means to be an Indian, pulling inspiration from homecomings’ past. This year’s candidates include: (King) Tanner Werth, Blake Buckles, Royal Gantt, Remy Stull and Karsten Koenke.
Grow Hays, Inc., a nonprofit organization aimed at advancing the economic health and vitality of Ellis County, has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Patterson Family Foundation. These funds will go toward the building of the Grow Hays MicroFactory, which will be breaking ground this October in the Heart of America Development on Commerce Parkway.
Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center, in partnership with other medical centers in VISN 15 VA Heartland Network, will host a town hall meeting for women Veterans 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. on Friday, September 23, 2022.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas condemned a school district’s discussed transgender policy as potentially illegal and harmful, in anticipation of a deciding vote on the matter. Parents, students and board members in the Gardner Edgerton School District discussed the contentious policy during July and August board meetings.
Athletic trainers (ATs) play a critical role on sports teams. You’ll often see them on the sidelines and when someone is injured during a sporting event.
A “once in a lifetime” federal investment will clean up more than 2,300 abandoned gas wells — some of which may be leaking super-polluting methane — in Kansas. But that’s only a fraction of the state’s approximately 11,000 abandoned wells.
Dear Readers, If I had not been inadvertently looking my love of a lug boy cat, I never would have seen it happen. I’ve mentioned before that this now two and a half year old is big and no lie, he’s huge. We have measured him and when he naps on a desk splayed out, he covers nearly a three foot deadto- the-world rectangle. And that’s what he was doing when he appeared in my peripheral vision this week as I, across the room, looked up from the paperwork I was sorting. What occurred next took less than a nanosecond, yet in my mind’s eye I watched him in slow motion, eyes closed and head lolling still slumbering deeply, heave and roll over and fall off the desk. He woke only when he instinctually stuck his landing with all four paws. He shook his head as if in disbelief, staggered around a bit discombobulated, and then with a half-hearted squeak, settled on the floor in pool of sunlight streaming through our front windows and was asleep again before I stopped laughing. And admiring cats’ innate ability to land on their feet. Now that’s a trait I wish I possessed both literally and figuratively.
Members of a U.S. House Education and Labor Committee panel on Thursday questioned experts and leaders of youth rehabilitation programs about how the federal government could invest in programs to prevent kids from becoming incarcerated.