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City may allow side-by-sides for city streets Hays Daily News Side-by-side alternative vehicles may show up before long on the city streets of Hays, if enthusiasts of the small, nimble non-automobiles get their wish. Used primarily for sport or agriculture, the smaller than standard, four-wheel vehicles are popular with farmers and with those who like to play on sand dunes and off-road. At Thursday’s regular work session of the city commission, a group of residents asked the commissioners to ...

Hays Daily News A $450,000 project to shade the eight ball field bleachers at city-owned Bickle-Schmidt Sports Complex should relieve the No. 1 complaint there, according to Jeff Boyle, parks director for the city of Hays. “Originally we were seeing more complaints about the playground not being in place,” said Boyle on Thursday evening at the regular work session of the Hays City Commission in City Hall, 1507 Main.  “That project is done and everybody is happy with that,” Boyle told t...

Hays Daily News Filled with anticipation for the new semester and re-energized after taking advantage of the privilege to rest and enjoy a long winter break, I find myself thinking about some of the people I admire and/or have gotten to know better this past year because of the pandemic. Here are just a few: our Hays city commissioners, our county health administrator and a group I refer to as our city rallying team. Our city commissioners – Michael Berges, Sandy Jacobs, Ron Mellick, Shaun Mu...

Hays Daily News Opponents of Hays and Russell developing their 7,000-acre R9 Ranch as a municipal water source are guilty of a double standard, according to Hays city manager Toby Dougherty. Speaking to the Hays City Commission at its regular work session last Thursday evening, Dougherty said attacks by Big Bend Groundwater Management District No. 5 and WaterPACK, a nonprofit agriculture irrigation lobby, show the state’s water rights rules aren’t being applied fairly. The $80-million R9 pr...