After months of culling nominations and receiving input from you, our readers, we at the Hays Free Press and News-Dispatch are proud to announce our winners for our Citizens of the Year campaign.

The premise of our campaign was to find those who make an impact across various categories in our communities and to highlight their efforts.

But getting to that point was rather difficult, simply because there are so many in our area – those who are nominated and those who were not – who ar...