Hays News

Karen Nowak ran her fingers across the cover of the brand new dictionary she held in her other hand and smiled.

A building fire in Hays Thursday afternoon caused light damage and displaced one family.

The Fort Hays Municipal Golf Course will close for winter Dec. 1 to help protect the facility's recovering greens.

As director of the Fort Hays State University student health center, Dona Koenigsman knows what it's like to see patients who are unable to afford prescriptions and medical attention.

Members of the Hays USD 489 Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to formally announce their willingness to support litigation against the state due to a steady stream of funding cuts that has left school finance -- in their opinion -- inadequate.

The following personnel transactions were approved Monday by the USD 489 Board of Education.

Calling bingo is a lot like being on the soccer field for Kevin Schumacher. If he makes a mistake, he learns from it and tries to do better next time.

The Fort Hays Singers, concert choir and wind ensemble gave two-and-a-half concerts Thursday evening at Fort Hays State University's Beach/Schmidt Performing Arts Center -- the separate parts did not often mix.

In an interview, Hammond talked about how Kansas usually rebounds slowly from an economic slowdown, so he sees obstacles ahead, especially when stimulus money runs out in 2012.

Jim and Opal Flinn, Ellis, will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary Oct. 24, 2009, with an open house hosted by their children and spouses from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Ellis Nutrition Center.

A relatively maintenance-free housing development is in the works on the southeast side of Smoky Hill Country Club.

It might be nearly 140 years old, but Historic Fort Hays could be taking on a new life in the coming months.

He's thrilled to finally have it over, even though the paint on the 8-by-10 mural must first go through a two-week drying period, followed by the application of picture varnish.

Sporting a rainbow wig, a red foam nose and a colorful clown costume, Faye Miller walked around the room demonstrating how to make balloon animals.

Members of the Hays USD 489 Board of Education received a lesson in technology-oriented pedagogy Monday night, courtesy of Hays High School Principal Mike Hester.

About 140 people will be racing across Hays Saturday for the third annual STRIDE half-marathon hosted by Hays Medical Center's Center for Health Improvement.

The signs started appearing about 23 years ago, Jude Scheck said. Her husband, Gilbert, began calling her for assistance in finding his way home from familiar places and often couldn't remember where he had placed his keys.

In response to the editorial by Patrick Lowry in the Oct. 2 issue of The Hays Daily News on Page A6 regarding the enactment of a so-called "Shield Law" protecting a journalist-reporter from prosecution in protecting the identity of unnamed news sources, I would like to make the following observations.

Although the official start to fall was less than three weeks ago, the feeling this weekend was undeniably wintry.

A Hays man was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon after posting a threatening message on a door outside the Ellis County Courthouse.