By Journal Record Staff Eloise Hayes was named the new medical director of the GeroPsych program at Great Plains Regional Medical Center in Elk City. Hayes previously worked as the head of the Community Mental Health Clinic for the state of Georgia. (c) 2006 Journal Record - Oklahoma City.

A flurry of home building, packed hotels, the new cars and trucks cruising the red dirt oil patch along the Texas border 110 miles west of Oklahoma City announce a natural gas boom that hasn't been seen here since the collapse of the last boom nearly 25 years ago.