January 2016 – Page 81 – Hays Post Archive

Keep Christmas green by recycling your tree

Posted on January 1, 2016December 18, 2015

City of Hays

Citizens are encouraged to bring Christmas trees to the free disposal site located north of the Public Works building at 1002 Vine Street. This area is right next to the bathrooms at Speier ball fields. Place the trees inside the orange snow fence area.

Signs will be posted to direct citizens. Please remove all plastic, ornaments, and lights before leaving the tree. The disposal site will be open Thursday, December 17, 2015 through Saturday, January 16, 2016.

Midwest Energy will provide personnel and a wood chipper to chip the trees to make mulch. The mulch will be placed at the Parks Department on the 183 Bypass and is available for pickup free of charge.

If there are questions, please call the Solid Waste Division at 628-7357.

HACC nominations for community leaders due Jan. 8

Posted on January 1, 2016November 18, 2015

Hays Area Chamber of Commerce

Do you know an individual or business who is making a significant impact in our community and the surrounding area? If the answer is yes, please consider nominating them for one of five categories being presented at this year’s Annual Awards Banquet.

The categories include: Rising Star for young professionals, Small Business Achievement, Business Woman of the Year, Citizen of the Year, and Hall of Fame.

Winners exemplify excellence through proven growth or stability, innovation, creativity, community leadership and achievements. The winner in each category will be unveiled during the Chamber’s Annual Awards Banquet on February 2, 2016.

Nomination forms can be found at discoverhays.com or through the printable link 2016 Annual Awards Nomination Form.

Study: Smaller counties driving US jail population growth

Posted on January 1, 2016

JAKE PEARSON, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Big-city jails grab headlines but a new report shows that small and medium-sized counties have driven the overall explosion in jail growth rates.

There are now nearly 700,000 people locked up in local jails in the country’s roughly 3,000 counties on any given day, up from 157,000 in 1970.

Forty-five years of jail statistics analyzed by the Vera Institute of Justice show smaller counties now account for about 44 percent of all jailed people in the U.S. That’s up from just 28 percent in 1978.

Exactly what’s behind that trend is not clear. But experts say a range of factors likely contribute, from law enforcement’s increased use of summonses and traffic tickets to the closing of state mental hospitals.