Author: Hugoton Hermes Staff

If you are a motorist wanting to pass a KDOT truck plowing snow or putting down salt or brine to fight ice, you might not realize why it is moving so slowly. It comes down to physics and performance. Fact, the physics: A KDOT plow truck weighs around 26,300 pounds – and that’s unloaded – […]

Stevens County’s Economic Development Director Jan Leonard was honored to receive K-State’s Huck Boyd National Institute for the 2020 Rural Development award as Huck Boyd Leader of the Year in the category of Tourism. Every year they ask the students in the entrepreneurship classes at K-State to review those featured on Kansas Profile in various […]

To all of our good friends and customers here, thank you for making our year so special. We wish you all the best at Christmastime and throughout the New Year. Pictured in back left to right are Loretta Woodworth,  Beverly Gerrond, Krissann Roland and Phoebe Brummett. In front are Toni Hamlin,  Ruthie Winget, RoGlenda Coulter […]

LaLane McClure is the new USD 210 Board of Education member.

Hugoton students auditioned for the SWKMEA honor choir and were selected with top scores in the southwest district.  This is the largest number of middle school students ever selected for both honor choirs.  Pictured left to right front row are Olivia Salmons, Mckenzie Esarey, Faith Beesley, Ella Beesley, Lelanie Gerber, Director Renee Beesley, Mylee Miller, […]

Kristin Farnum worked her Thanksgiving magic again this year and organized a successful distribution of a Thanksgiving feast for around 450 community members. The meals were delivered to community members in Hugoton, Moscow and Rolla. With the help of some hard working volunteers from several organizations, the cooking, packaging and delivery of meals went very […]

We, here at the Hermes, would like to wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving.

Operation Christmas Child national collection week is here – November 16-23. This is when you will drop your OCC shoeboxes off at First Christian Church at 600 S Van Buren St. in Hugoton. If you still need shoeboxes, First Christian Church has pre-printed boxes available at no cost. The schedule for when the church will […]

Hugoton Middle School September Students of the Month are seventh graders Miguel Hernandez and Chaney Poulsen and eighth graders Yareli Guerrero and Christian Zizumbo. Photo courtesy of Morey Mecklenburg.

Superintendent Adrian Howie with his wife Kristen and daughters Kinley, Kamdon and Krosby celebrate Halloween in style.