Hays, Kan. — The Society of Friends of Historic Fort Hays will offer a free-to-the-public, two-day encampment event to commemorate and celebrate local Fort Hays period history. “Historic Fort Hays Days: Where History Lives!” will be a celebration of culture and history on June 11-12, 2022 at the Historic Fort Hays Site at 1472 US Hwy 183 Alternate.
On a shelf in a Western KS warehouse sits a parcel I hope will be recovered. Well I don’t know for sure that it is on a shelf or in a warehouse but after four hours, five or six “live chats,” and too many phone calls to count, the United Parcel Service (UPS) assures me this package is somewhere in Garden City. And as best I can determine it strayed 252 miles off course due to a comedy of human and computer errors.
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is preparing to ship out to the states millions of COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5 in the coming weeks, likely ending months of waiting for parents and caregivers.
TOPEKA — Republican gubernatorial candidate Derek Schmidt waited until the filing deadline Wednesday to announce his selection of a U.S. Senate aide as his running mate in the 2022 campaign.
May Was a Bit Overdramatic There was a basketball player at my high school who was overdramatic. Anytime an opposing player even brushed up against him he would yell in pain and grab his arm.
“No greater love has a man than this—that he lay down his life for his friends.” Congressman Tracey Mann used that quote by Jesus as the overriding theme for his Memorial Day speech at St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Hays.
The cyclone sculpture in Codell, Rooks County, Kansas, was built to commemorate the events on May 20 in the years 1916,1917, and 1918. On May 22, 1918, at approximately 9:00 pm, a tornado swept across northern Ellis and southern Rooks counties.
American flags blow in the wind on Monday on Hall Street next to Thomas More Prep-Marian. Randy Gonzales / Hays Daily News Flags wave in the breeze on Monday next to a tank on display at Veterans Memorial Park.
One day in 1973, The Wall Street Journal published a review of Kansas tourist attractions. It was not kind.
Ann Leiker was honored Thursday afternoon for her 21 years of work with the Center for Life Experiences. “The last 21 years I have been at CFLE have been what I feel like I have been called to do with my life and therefore is very significant to me personally,” Leiker shared.