Rural Telephone / Nex-Tech Awarded $101 Million WASHINGTON 1-26-10- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack yesterday announced that Rural Telephone and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Nex-Tech, was one of 14 recipients selected for Recovery Act Broadband Infrastructure funding as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Lenora-based telecommunications cooperative and its Hays-based subsidiary will receive a grant...

Schools score big with Rural Telephone and Nex-Tech HAYS, KAN, 12-12-09—Rural Telephone and Nex-Tech kicked off the fifth consecutive school year with some extra incentives for local football teams to reach the endzone. For each touchdown scored during home games, Rural Telephone or Nex-Tech made a donation to the team’s school system. Twenty-three local high schools participated in the program and collectively earned over ...

Rural Telephone announces capital credits Rural Telephone announces capital credits LENORA, Kan, 12-1-09-Rural Telephone’s Board of Trustees, during their November meeting, approved $642,527 in capital credits to be distributed to its members. “Eligible members who had telephone service with the Lenora-based cooperative during the years of 1988 through 1998 will receive a capital credit check. This is the twen...

Matthew Kent Stamper, Ag Scholarship Awarded MANHATTAN, Kan. – Matt Stamper and Nicholas Mizner are two young people who shared similar backgrounds and plans for the future.  Both grew up in rural Kansas and planned to work in agriculture as adults.  But, Matt Stamper’s plans for the future were tragically cut short on May 23, 1999 when he died in an automobile accident, just shy of his 22nd birthday. ...

CHS Cooperative Scholarship, Ag Scholarships Awarded MANHATTAN, Kan. –  CHS Foundation Scholarships are one way the CHS regional cooperative is giving back to future agricultural leaders. Jenny Combes, Casey Crossland, Ashley Guenther, Trenton Hargrave, Anikka Martin, Dillon Stum, Aaron Sylvester and David White, were selected to be the recipients of the 2008-2009 CHS Foundation Cooperative Scholarship. Jenny Comb...

Stockton’s Jordann Wiltfong selected for D.C. visit LENORA, Kan, 2-13-09-Rural Telephone is pleased to announce that Jordann Wiltfong of Stockton has been selected to participate in the 2009 Leadership Through Learning Program sponsored by the Foundation for Rural Education and Development. Jordann will join thirteen other high school juniors and seniors from rural areas for a week of activities in Washington, D.C. Between ...