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Body A regular meeting of the Stockton Unified School District No. 271 Board of Education was held Monday March 14th, 2022 at the District Conference Room at 5:30 p.m.

Body Dr. Trey A. Kellner is the recipient of the 2022 Midwest Section of the American Society of Animal Science (ASAS) Outstanding Early Career Agribusiness Award, presented to him this week during the ASAS Midwest Section Meeting held March 14-16 in Omaha, Neb.

Body The Dane G. Hansen Foundation of Logan, Kansas has named 222 high school seniors from 59 Northwest Kansas schools as winners in its 47th annual scholarship competition, five of which include students from Rooks County.

Body Total state tax collections for February were $502.5 million. That is $18.7 million, or 3.9%, more than the February estimate. Those collections are also $46.6 million, or 10.2%, more than February 2021.

Body This story about the Cooper Barber Shop, that served the men and boys of Stockton for 48 years, was written by Jeral G. Cooper, a Stockton alumnus who lives in Tonganoxie.

Body STOCKTON HIGH SCHOOL NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY MEMBERS are from left: Addie Struckhoff, Melissa Ard, Madison Moffet, Olivia Dix, Delanee Bedore, Tierra Yohon, Claire Plumer, Cappi Hoeting, Ruthie Voss, Rylan Basart, Max Moffet, Camden Iwanski, Garrett Billinger and Coryn Hahn.

Body 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.

Body 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?