In March 2021, the Kansas Legislature passed K.S.A. 79-2988, which requires Kansas County Clerks to send taxpayers notification of the revenue neutral rate (RNR) compared to the proposed rate for each taxing subdivisions. Taxing subdivisions are prohibited from levying an ad valorem property tax that exceeds the RNR. Therefore this August, an estimated tax notice was mailed out by the county clerk to all county property owners with information about property tax revenue and an estimated tax notice on behalf of all of their taxing subdivisions.

(The following story was from the AP-San Francisco) Apple disclosed serious security vulnerabilities for iPhones, iPads and Macs that could potentially allow attackers to take complete control of these devices.

A Rooks County man has been sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for seconddegree intentional murder in the 2020 death of a woman in northwest Kansas, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said. Thomas S.

By Virgi L aska Stockton Sentinel On Tuesday, August 16th the Stockton City Commission voted to sign a real estate agreement with Farm Implement & Supply Corporation, Inc. for property in Plainville as well as sign the real estate agreement with Michael C.

Ezra Scott (4), who has Chronic granulomatous, received his bone marrow transplant from his younger brother, Charlie (2 1/2), during the middle of August at the Seattle Children’s Hospital. Everything went well for both patients with everyone now waiting on the 21-day window to see if the transplant took.

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At the special school board meeting held on Wednesday, August 10th, the Stockton board members voted to hire Keri Kephart to fill the Grade School Title 1 position. They also held a discussion on the guidelines to purchase beef/pork from the Rooks County Free Fair with no decisions made.

By Virgi Laska Stockton Sentinel Ronda Morgan with the Appraiser’s office was at the August 9th regular weekly meeting of the Rooks County Commission to talk to the commissioners about the GIS data/mapping maintenance. It was decided by the commissioners to allow for the maintenance with $2,200.00 to come out of the GIS fund.

With the 2022 Rooks County Free Fair just coming to a close, the work for next year’s event has already started with the exciting announcement that the 2023 Fair will have a carnival! The fair board has a verbal agreement with Pride of Texas Shows Carnival for rides, concessions and games to be on the fairgrounds from Wednesday through Saturday (August 9th through August 12th) with fair board president Dean Hrabe stating, “The contract is on its way.” The last carnival at the Rooks County Free Fair was in 2019 before the COVID Pandemic in 2020. Since that time, and because of the Pandemic, it has been very hard to procure a carnival since 60% of them were eliminated during that time.