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Body The area farmers are just getting started with this year’s fall harvest. So as of Monday, October 4th, the Stockton Farmers Union Elevator in Stockton has taken in 25,000 bushels of soybeans, 37,380 bushels of corn, and 19,325 bushels of milo.

Body Fort Hays State University held a ribbon-cutting for the Fischli-Wills Center for Student Success Friday, Oct. 1.

Body The Rooks County Commission met for its weekly meeting on Tuesday, September 28th with commissioners John Ruder, Greg Balthazor and Tim Berland in attendance.

Body The Stockton USD 271 Board of Education held a special board meeting on Friday, October 1st. Those present were board members Mark Billinger, LeAnn Dix, Daphne Plumer, Jesse Stithem, Aftan Tso, Stephanie Niblock, superintendent Bill Lowry and grade school principal Stacey Green.

Body The Stockton FFA Greenhand and Senior teams, who both placed first in the Northwest District Land and Homesite Judging Contest in Goodland, qualified for Nationals! The article had that they had qualified for State. Way to go, Stockton!

Body THE GRAND OPENING AND RIBBON CUTTING for The Daily Grind was appropriately held on National Coffee Day, Wednesday, September 29th.

Body What do Neil Armstrong, Gerald Ford, Sam Walton, Ewing Kaufman, Mike Rowe, Manti Te’o, Shane Victorino and Rylan Basart, a senior at Stockton High School, all have in common?

Body Caleigh Iwanski could not have asked for a better ending to her youth career in the Kansas Quarter Horse Youth Association (KQHYA) than winning the bronze in the World Championships in the Level 3 Ranch Trail Competition in Oklahoma City, Okla. this past August.

Body The Kansas Department of Transportation plans to begin a pair of resurfacing projects on U.S. 24 and K-184 in Thomas County the week of Sept.

Body Present for the Rooks County Commission’s weekly meeting on Tuesday, September 21st were commissioners John Ruder and Greg Balthazor. Commissioner Tim Berland was absent from the morning session.