nwkansas.com provides dial-up Internet service in Oberlin, Goodland, Colby and St. Francis in northwest Kansas.
Nor'West Newspapers, run by Haynes Publishing Company and the Haynes family, is dedicated to bringing quality newspapers to northwest Kansas with publications in Bird City, Colby, Goodland, Oberlin, Norton and Saint Francis.
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In 2004
Nor'West Newspapers won the Burton Marvin Award from Kansas University
for News
Enterprise, the Victor Murdock Award for outstanding journalistic
standards from
Kansas Press Association, Frank and Mamie Boyd Community Service
Award from Kansas
Press and Editorial Excellence and Community Service Awards from
the National
Newspaper Association.
Plus annually numerous individual newspaper awards have been received from the Kansas Press for photography, layout, news reporting, sports reporting, general writing excellence and editorial writing.
Our 4-day a week newspaper is the Colby Free Press. The company has three weekly and two semi-weekly newspapers
The Oberlin Herald, The Saint Francis Herald and the Bird City Times are the weekly papers
and The Goodland Star-News and The Norton Telegram are the semi-weekly papers.
Nor'West publishes The Country Advocate, a free shopper which reaches 19,000 households across 10 counties
in northwest Kansas and two in eastern Colorado, reaching from Hoxie to Burlington, Colo., and from Oberlin to Norton and Oakley to Sharon Springs.
For information about Nor'West Newspapers, to place an ad or to inquire about job opportunities, call
The Oberlin Herald (785) 475-2206; Colby Free Press (785) 462-3963; The Goodland Star-News (785) 899-2338; The Saint Francis Herald (785) 332-3162; and The Norton Telegram (785) 877-3361.
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