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Look for the new addition of April’s Imagination Photography & Boutique, owned and operated by April Goodenberger, in the Sentinel’s Business Directory starting in this week’s paper. April’s Boutique carries a variety of items, and she is now booking for Class of 2025 Senior Picture Sessions!

The Trevor Tien Silent Auction and Benefit Dinner, with a dance following (Rockin’ Thunder Music), will be held on Saturday, February 10th, at the Logan City Building from 5:00 p.m. to Please get in touch with Jordyn Legget with questions and to donate at

At the start of the Rooks County Commission meeting held on Tuesday, January 16th, commissioners Jake Prockish and John Ruder met with sheriff Gary Knight and emergency management director Butch Post. The two requested ARPA funds to purchase two radios for dispatch backup at approximately $2,500.

Darren Rubottom is this year’s Rooks County Conservation District’s Bankers Soil Conservation Award recipient. Darren’s interest in production agriculture developed as an 8th grader while working on his grandparents’ farm south of Woodston.

The 2023 Rooks County Windbreak Award winners are Alan Dix and Travis Jones of Stockton. In 1998, Alan and Travis started planting trees for the Rooks County Conservation District. Their first project was a CRP Enhancement planting on Andreson property.

The Rooks County Conservation District’s 76th Annual Meeting will take place on Monday, January 29th, at 6:30 p.m. at the Palco High School Gym.

The 2024 Stockton Grade School Spelling Bee was one for the books. The contest went twentysix rounds with 218 words announced until fourthgrade student Bryah Stithem won the competition after correctly spelling the word “recital.

The Phillips-Rooks Extension District will be hosting a free, daylong Farm/Ranch Financial Management program in the 4-H Building at the Rooks County Fairgrounds in Stockton on Thursday, February 8th. The program will begin at 10:30 a.m.

The #500forGood Program was started in 2018 by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka, with eight $500.00 gifts given out. This year, the organization is pleased to announce 52 recipients chosen from more than 120 submissions.