Law enforcement authorities in the region are looking for a white 2002  Chevy Silverado 2500 extended cab truck.

The truck was reportedly taken in Rush County after 10 a.m. on Thursday.

The vehicle has a chrome tool box, rain guards on the windows, heavy diesel marks on the tail gate and a KS license 852FPT

The truck also has a TMP parking permit on the left rear window.

If you have information on the missing truck or see it contact police.

Hays High will host their annual Maroon and Gold basketball scrimmage Friday night

The admission fee is part of a National Honor Society fundraiser.

Just bring a non perishable food item to donate.

(AP) — Federal prosecutors have trimmed their case against a former northwest Kansas wastewater manager accused of violating the Clean Water Act.

A criminal information filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court charges Charles L. Blair with a single count of negligently causing a violation of a permit issued to the city of Hays.

Blair was originally charged in a four-count indictment with making false statements about nitrogen levels in discharges from the city’s wastewater treatment plant.

Blair, who retired last year, has denied the charges but is scheduled to be in court Monday for a change-of-plea hearing.

 

 

Prosecutors say a traveling hospital technician who infected patients in Kansas and other states with hepatitis C through tainted syringes created a “national public health crisis” and should spend 40 years in prison.

David Kwiatkowski has admitted stealing painkillers and replacing them with saline-filled syringes tainted with his blood.

Defense attorneys argue he should get 30 years instead, in part because of a drug addiction that clouded his judgment. He’ll be sentenced Monday.

Kwiatkowski worked at the Hays Medical Center from May 24 to Sept. 22, 2010.

Forty-six people were infected in four states including six here in Kansas.

At the USD 489 Board of Education work session on Monday, December 2nd, the board will discuss proposed changes to the organization of the district’s administration and support staff.  Reorganization and better-defining the reporting structure of the district was just one suggestion made by Randy Gustafson, who had been hired as a consultant to conduct a review of the school district’s operation and make recommendations.

Superintendent Dean Katt told Hays Post that Gustafson met with staff, reviewed policies, handbooks and processes, and designed a list of recommendations he felt would benefit the district.  From those recommendations, Gustafson created a 38 page report which he presented at the USD 489 retreat held on Saturday November 16th.  One area which he felt the district was deficient was establishing clear structure for each department.

According to Gustafson’s report;

“USD 489 is a large local government organization, with a budget approaching $50,000,000.00, with employment over 700, over 2000 students, in a city/county of more than 27,000 residents, and it’s been run as if it were a district of 100 students in the most remote area of the state.  There is there is little oversight, direction, supervision, coordination or direction given to its departments of employees.”

Gustafson cited kitchen, custodial, and IT personnel as examples where direct supervision and oversight is unclear to even the staff in those roles.  He proposed creating Standard Operating Procedures for each position to better define each role.  At the retreat, it was determined that the district would also benefit from an organizational chart to define the reporting structure of staff.

At the retreat, Gustafson’s report and the resulting discussion were used to set various SMART Goals as part of a USD 489 action plan.  The action plan will be visited throughout the school year.  Katt said that the goal of the plan isn’t to look back and see who or what was wrong, but to move forward.

“We need to forget about the past, we have the plan, we have the recommendations; that’s what we’re going to focus on and go forward.  Let’s quit dwelling on what’s happened in the past, whether you agree, disagree whatever.  All these things on here are good.”