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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 Musil and Mason Ruder – have always had important, and sometimes controversial, decisions to make, but who could have prepared for 2020? Just when the emotionally-charged debates over the roundabouts began to settle, along came the pandemic, and among the many critical decisions that had to be made was the mask ordinance.
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 project has been in the works for more than 25 years, with Hays and Russell navigating the state’s complicated legal and regulatory process to develop the groundwater source. The project will pipe water 67 miles from the R9 Ranch in Edwards County to Ellis and Russell counties.
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