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Taylor Ayers wins this year’s Rooks County Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge

4 years ago By Virgi Laska

This year a total of 17 teams from the Rooks County schools competed at the Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge event, which was held at the Stockton High School on Wednesday, March 2nd. The goal of the Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge (YEC) is to expose Kansas middle school and high school students to entrepreneurship and give them a handson experience.

TAYLOR AYERS OF PLAINVILLE was this year’s Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge winner with his business concept, “Ayers Buddies Pet Sitting.” He also won the Best Marketing Award as well as the John McIntyre Teamwork Award. Taylor is now eligible for the State YEC to be held in Manhattan on Thursday, April 28th.

Stockton third-grade classes learn about their community

4 years ago By Virgi Laska

The Stockton third grade students of Ms. Tricia Hemphill and Mrs. Martha Fleck recently learned about communities in their respective classrooms. The Project Based Learning (PBL) umbrella question was “How do the services in our community make our community a better place to live?” Their ultimate goal from this lesson was to write articles for the newspaper about what they learned about our community.

Grandson too close for comfort in school shooting at Olathe

4 years ago By News Staff

Caleb Scheller, a student at Olathe East High School and grandson of Sandy Folsom, Stockton, had a frightening experience last week that he probably will never forget. As Caleb was going to one of his classes, he happened to pass by the principal’s office and heard a lot of commotion.

Special school board meeting held last week

4 years ago By News Staff

The Stockton USD 271 Board of Education met on Tuesday, March 1st for a special meeting. The first order of business was to approve and sign a response letter to the Plainville 270 Board of Education about the article in the February 17th edition of the Plainville Times referring to the discovery meeting held in Stockton on January 19th with Stockton USD 271, Plainville 270 and Palco 269 in attendance. The Stockton board members felt they came away from that meeting with a lot of positive feedback, and were in the process of setting up another exploration meeting with KASB for more in-depth discussions on consolidation. The waiver of conflict of interest that was asked to be signed by the districts at the meeting was so that one KASB representative could represent all three school districts at the upcoming meeting that Stockton was going to schedule. It was the intent of the board members to have KASB attend the meeting to direct, talk, fact find, and answer questions from the three Districts. It was also noted that at the end of the day a vote for any type of consolidation comes down to a public vote.

Bridge repairs starting on I-70 in Ellis County

4 years ago By News Staff

The Kansas Department of Transportation plans to begin work on a trio of bridge repair projects along I-70 in Ellis County the week of March 14.

Thomas interview to be aired on KWCH tonight at 6:00 p.m.

4 years ago By News Staff

In honor of Black History Month in February, and Women’s History Month in March, KWCH recently came to Stockton and interviewed local resident Kim Thomas. That interview is scheduled to air on KWCH Channel 12 tonight at 6:00 p.m. Tune in and check out what Thomas had to say about being the first African-American female mayor in Kansas and much more! If you miss it on air, it can be viewed by going to www.kwch.com/livestream/.

Homicide investigation in Rush County leads to multiple arrests

4 years ago By News Staff

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) Special Agents made multiple arrests connected to the January 2022 murder of 61-year-old Leslie Randa.

KWEC to offer birdwatching workshop

4 years ago By News Staff

Fort Hays State University’s Kansas Wetlands Education Center will hold a free birdwatching workshop at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 12.

Curtis Wolf, KWEC director, will lead the Birdwatching 101 class.

The Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area, where the KWEC is located, is well known as a birdwatching hotspot. There are more than 450 species of birds being documented in Kansas.

Arrest of former Lawrence police officer

4 years ago By News Staff

Today, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) arrested a man who was formerly an officer of the Lawrence Police Department.

KDA Advises Poultry Owners to Watch for Avian Influenza

4 years ago By News Staff

The Kansas Department of Agriculture’s Division of Animal Health encourages poultry owners, with both commercial and backyard flocks, to take steps to protect their flocks from avian influenza by monitoring their birds for symptoms and by implementing biosecurity practices.