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The Rooks County Historical Society will be having a special event Sunday, October 17, 2021, to be held at the Rooks County Museum, 921 South Cedar, Stockton, starting at 2:00 p.m.

Governor Laura Kelly announced Friday, October 1, Kansas’ September total tax receipts were $876.5 million. Those collections are $162.2 million, or 22.7% more than the estimate and a growth of 20.2%, or $147.6 million, from last September.

No, Stockton is not being invaded by pirates since people have been hearing what sounds like cannon fire or sonic booms going off in the town on a regular basis each night. What is happening is buzzards have been roosting on top of the Farmers Union Elevators.

There was an electrical power outage in Stockton last Friday, October 1st around 4.30 p.m. The City’s electric department ran the line to thoroughly check the area to determine the cause of the outage.

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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