These HHS choir students received a 1 SUPERIOR rating at Regional contest with their solos and ensembles and advanced to compete at the State contest, and every one of the solos and ensembles received a 1 SUPERIOR rating at State! Students from top left are Abigail Garcia, Sarahi Valles, Nicole Bustillios, Hailey Maldonaldo, Emily Rojas, Brianna Ordonoz, Abigail Foreman and Jolee Hoffine; second row, Maddie Johnson, Seth Mason, Bryan Montoya, Isaac Martin, Jazen Mauk, Ross Grewell, Griffin Heger and director Renee Beesley; third row, Amanda Farnum, Elena Zhang, Jewels Noland, Katya Wolters, Liliannah Archuleta, Abigail Slocum, Raeleigh Angell and Jessica Martinez; front row, Madison Crawford, Yamile Sanchez, Grace Staats Gibson, Mckenna Hamlin and Danica Amerin. not pictured are Shiloe Goetzinger, Valeria Romo and Mikyn Hamlin. Photo courtesy of Renee Beesley.

The Hugoton FFA Chapter receives the Eddy Koonce Memorial award for being the top Livestock Judging Team in Southwest Kansas this year. The award was presented to the Hugoton team members by the Koonce Family and Payton Walk, the Southwest Kansas Vice President. Pictured are Payton, Shea Robertson, Taylor Nulik, Jacob Bell, Robin Koonce, Tyler Koonce and Carrie Jo Koonce. Photo courtesy of Les McNally.

FFA State Degrees and Alumni Scholarship winners are left to right Taylor Nulik, Kynna Crawford, Victoria Bryan, Jacob Bell, Karina Rodriquez, Nicholas Bryan, Kyra Shelton, Jay McClure, Molly McClure and Suheila Rosas.

The Easter Egg hunters were out in style Saturday. The day was beautiful and it seems most all were ready for a day outing dressed in their Easter finest. It may have taken members of the Lions Club almost a couple hours to “hide” the hundreds of colorful filled eggs, but those little egg hunters made short work of finding them and filling their baskets to overflowing. Thank you to all who helped make this possible for our young ones. It was a fun day.

A Legislative Update was attended March 20 at the Senior Center. In the above picture, left to right are Senator John Doll, USD 210 Superintendent Adrian Howie, Representative Marty Long and Hugoton Chamber Director Alisha Owens.

State Champions with their plaques and coaches, front row left to right are, Jose Coreno, Caiden Perez and Fynn Reinerio. In the back row are, Coach Cody Hill, Coach Josh Perez, Coach Derick Reinerio and Coach Ivan Andrade. Photo courtesy of Jessica Reinerio.

Terry and Jill Jordan are the new owners of this beautiful quilt that was made by Henry Smith and donated to the Project Prom After Party. They have been great supporters of the Hugoton High School students.  Thanks again Terry and Jill aka Jordan Air.

Spring, summer, autumn and winter. While these are the seasons of the year everyone is familiar with, Kansans can usually plan on one more: severe weather season.