2016 – Page 987 – Hays Post Archive

Sen. Moran to host town hall meetings in Hill City, Ransom

Posted on January 1, 2016December 17, 2015

Office of U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran

HILL CITY–U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) has announced he will visit Hill City Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, as part of his Kansas Listening Tour.

The town hall meeting will be held in conjunction with the Hill City Lions Club Meeting.

Area residents are encouraged to attend and share feedback with Sen. Moran about issues facing Kansas and the nation. The issues Sen. Moran focuses on and the work he does in Washington, D.C., are largely based on the conversations he has with Kansans during these town hall meetings.

Hill City Lions Club members will join Moran for dinner and their group meeting at 5:30 p.m. The public town hall meeting will follow starting at 6:30 p.m.

Both events are in Red’s Family Restaurant, 222 N. Pomeroy Avenue.

Sen. Moran will be in Ness County the following morning, Tuesday, Jan. 5.

The Ransom town hall meeting is scheduled from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m. in the Grisell Memorial Hospital – Long Term Care dining room, 210 S. Vermont Avenue.

High court election-year lineup rich in high-profile cases

Posted on January 1, 2016

MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s lineup of cases is fit for an election year.

Affirmative action, abortion and another look at the Obama health care law and its contraceptive mandate all are before the court. And they could well be joined by immigration, giving the justices a run of cases that reads like a campaign platform.

Also coming are disputes involving labor unions, the death penalty and the way electoral districts are drawn.

Decisions in these high-profile cases almost certainly will split the court along ideological lines, mirroring the country’s stark partisan split. The most contentious issues won’t be resolved until late June, barely four months before the 2016 presidential election.

Kansas man dies after ejected in rollover accident

Posted on January 1, 2016

WINCHESTER- A Kansas man died in an accident just after 10:30p.m. on New Year’s Eve in Jefferson County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1999 Chevy Malibu driven by Jackson, Isaiah J. Jackson, 27, Atchison, was westbound on Kansas192 at 7th Street in Winchester.

The driver missed the curve and continued straight onto Delaware Street.

He lost control of the vehicle. It entered the south ditch and overturned several times. The Driver 1was ejected through the rear window.

Jackson was pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Frontier Forensics.

He was not wearing a seatbelt, according to the KHP.

Sunny, warmer New Year’s Day

Posted on January 1, 2016December 31, 2015

Temperatures are expected to return to near seasonal averages by this weekend.
New Year’s Day Sunny, with a high near 42. Wind chill values as low as 1. West northwest wind 8 to 13 mph.

Friday Night Clear, with a low around 17. West wind around 7 mph.

SaturdaySunny, with a high near 45. West northwest wind 6 to 11 mph.

Saturday NightMostly clear, with a low around 17. West northwest wind 5 to 8 mph.

SundaySunny, with a high near 42.

Sunday NightMostly clear, with a low around 19.

MondaySunny, with a high near 39.

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.