The Governing Body of the City of Russell will hold a Special Council Meeting at the City Building June 4 at 4:30 p.m.; the object and purpose of said meeting being the following: 1) Discuss Ordinance 1594 in regards to the sale and discharge of fireworks in the city limits and consider restrictions in the [...]
The two Western Kansas American Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicles (ERVs), including the one based in Hays, are traveling through the tornado-affected areas in Oklahoma with food and supplies. The ARC volunteers are also opening 10 emergency aid stations and 11 fixed feeding sites. Both ERVs were deployed to Shawnee, Oklahoma Thursday. The ERVs are [...]
ELLIS CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING Minutes May 20, 2013 CALL TO ORDER Mayor Lyle Johnston called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. Present were Council members John Walz, Jolene Niernberger, Steve Ferland, Loran Gottschalk and Terry Redetzke. Also present were Public Works Interim Co-Director Danny Wickham, City Clerk Amy Burton, Police Chief Taft Yates, [...]
It’s homework disguised as fun. The annual Summer Reading Program at the Hays Public Library kicked off Thursday with a huge party upstairs in the Children’s Department. This year’s theme is “Dig Into Reading.” Special guest “Buddy the Snake” from the Sternberg Museum of Natural History attended the event. Participants also got to dig “dino” [...]
The erection of Fort Hays State University’s two 400′ wind turbines is getting underway southwest of Hays. Thursday morning workers assembled the final section of the construction crane. Parts and crew members will be arriving throughout the next week. The turbines are west of the university’s Super DARN radar array, near the intersection of 210th [...]
Material submitted by the Ellis County Joint Planning Commission for Wednesday’s public hearing regarding a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) request by Invenergy, LLC of Chicago: FACT SHEET: BUCKEYE WIND ENERGY PROJECT May, 2013 * All statistics regard the project as proposed at this time PROJECT NAME Buckeye Wind Energy Project (“Buckeye”) LOCATION Buckeye [...]
“The meeting went more smoothly than I expected.” Ellis County Joint Planning Commission Chairman Kendall Krug says last night’s public hearing for a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) for commercial wind developer Invenergy LLC resulted in a unanimous vote of support for the CUP. The recommendation now goes to the Ellis County Commission, which must allow [...]
FROM THE CITY OF HAYS Due to the observance of Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, 2013, Refuse/Recycling route collection schedules will be altered as follows: Collections will begin on Tuesday, May 28, 2013 starting with Monday’s route and progressing throughout the week. Although alley collections may not occur on your normal day, collections will be [...]
There’s lots of good food to enjoy inside the Hays Senior Center meal site on east 8th Street. But outside the site Tuesday morning, there was some throwing of rotten tomatoes. This group of meal site participants and United Way of Ellis County representatives are part of this fall’s United Way campaign fundraiser video. The [...]
An Ellis resident and student at Thomas-More Prep Marian High School in Hays has earned the highest Girl Scout Award for ages 14 to 18. Allison Hohmann is a TMP junior and a recipient of the Girl Scout Gold Award. Hohmann’s project involved making literacy kits for Spanish-speaking families in the Hays USD 489 school [...]
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