Rural Telephone honored during Business Appreciation Month Lenora, Kan, 7-29-08—Rural Telephone was recently honored during Business Appreciation Month as one of the top four companies in the State of Kansas at a ceremony on June 17 hosted by the Kansas Cavalry and the Kansas Department of Commerce. This annual ceremony known as the Kansas Calvary Encampment is the state’s largest celebration of Kansas businesses. The Encampment i...

Lakeside School Channel Airing This Fall Downs, Kan, 6/4/08— Nex-Tech Digital TV subscribers in Downs will soon enjoy watching local students and faculty on a new school channel. The content will be produced by local high school students with equipment donated by Rural Telephone/Nex-Tech and will feature a variety of school-related programming. Customers will enjoy seeing Lakeside High School basketball and footb...

Rural Telephone and Nex-Tech Sponsor Youth Leaders Hays, Kan, 5-27-08—Rural Telephone and Nex-Tech are pleased to sponsor 30 area students to attend the Kansas Youth Leadership Academy (KYLA) camp held at Fort Hays State University this June. KYLA is a statewide, comprehensive, and all-inclusive program designed to promote youth leadership development. The Academy Camps, previously known as the Kansas Youth Leadership Camp...

Rural Telephone/Nex-Tech congratulates Beverly Wilkerson Plainville, Kan, 4-15-08— Congratulations to Beverly Wilkerson of Plainville for winning the Rural Telephone/Nex-Tech Feature-opoly drawing!  Feature-opoly is a calling features board game designed by Rural Telephone/Nex-Tech and is fun for people of every age! Participants have the opportunity to win a calling feature free for three months, a chance card for an insta...

Hard hat tour provides information and prizes Hill City, Kan, 4-11-08—Poker runs aren’t just for bikers anymore. Rural Telephone’s Economic Development Department has organized a special one along with a Hard Hat Tour to help recognize and promote manufacturers and small businesses in the region. Any mode of transportation is acceptable on the tour /poker run, and carpooling is encouraged. The Hard Hat Tour is schedul...

Rural Telephone Annual Meeting set for April 18 Lenora, Kan, 4-11-08— The 2008 Annual Meeting for Rural Telephone Service Co., Inc. will be held at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 18, at the Ruppenthal Middle School Auditorium, 400 Elm, in Russell. The meeting will include reports from the president and CEO/General Manager, the election of trustees, and a proposed bylaw change to address bringing the ten new exchanges acquired ...

Rural Telephone/Nex-Tech promotes youth leaders Hays, Kan, 4-10-08—Rural Telephone/Nex-Tech is proud to announce that it will sponsor 30 area students to attend the Kansas Youth Leadership Academy (KYLA) held at Fort Hays State University this June. Students who register will be entered into a drawing from which 15 middle school students and 15 high school students will be drawn to attend the KYLA camp. The selected stu...

S&T Communications, LLC Acquires Oakley Nex-Tech Customers Oakley, Kan-1-14-08 - S&T Communications, LLC, a subsidiary of S&T Telephone of Brewster, Kansas, is pleased to announce that it has entered an agreement to acquire the local telephone, long distance and Internet subscribers in Oakley from Nex-Tech Inc. Nex-Tech is a subsidiary of Rural Telephone Service Company, Inc., based in Lenora, Kansas. This acquisition is e...

USD 326 receives technology grant to fund AutoCAD implementation Logan, Kan, 12-6-07—  Logan School Superintendent Bob Jackson accepted a $9,139 “Technology Grant” from the Foundation for Rural Education and Development (FRED) during a school assembly this morning at the Logan High School Auditorium. Their grant application was sponsored by Lenora-based Rural Telephone. Only six other schools nationwide received a FRED Technology G...

Schools score big with Rural Telephone and Nex-Tech HAYS, KAN, 12-7-07—Rural Telephone and Nex-Tech kicked off the third 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. Nineteen local high schools and Fort Hays State University participated in the program, co...

Rural Telephone announces capital credits LENORA, Kan, 11-14-07-Rural Telephone’s Board of Trustees, during their October meeting, approved $960,120 in capital credits to be refunded to its members. “Eligible members who had telephone service with the Lenora-based cooperative during the years of 1986 through 2006 will receive a capital credit refund check. This is the twenty-third consecutive year in which capital...

Nex-Tech helps raise money for Stockton Park Stockton, Kan, 10-15-07—Nex-Tech has teamed up with the Stockton PARK committee to help raise funds for new playground equipment in the Stockton City lower park. “Nex-Tech puts a high priority on giving back to the communities in which we live and work,” said Dustin Schlaefli, Nex-Tech’s Marketing Supervisor. “We are kicking off a fundraising campaign by donating $500 to...

Nex-Tech to Acquire Cable Customers in Quinter Quinter, Kan, September 12, 2007—Nex-Tech, a subsidiary of Rural Telephone, is pleased to announce an agreement with Quinter Cable Company Inc. to acquire its cable television subscribers and plant facilities in Quinter effective September 30, 2007. “Many Quinter customers already experience the convenience of receiving local telephone service, long distance, high-speed In...

Three new wireless hotspots available in Logan Logan, Kan, September 12, 2007 — Residents and visitors of Logan will now have access to high-speed Internet via three new Lightning Jack® Wi-Fi hotspots provided by Nex-Tech. The Wi-Fi hotspots are available at Main Street Pizza, Hansen Memorial Museum and Logan Area Historical Museum. Wi-Fi is a trademarked name for equipment that meets a certified wireless networking st...