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The Stockton City Commission held its regular meeting on Tuesday, April 4th. City clerk/manager Courtney Flower reported that the water heater for the Senior Center had been installed.

The Kansas Department of Transportation plans to begin a field survey for a proposed bridge replacement project along U.S. 36 in eastern Phillips County starting the week of April 17.

The Spring Into Stockton Jubilee will be here before you know it! The Stockton Area Chamber of Commerce invites everyone to enjoy the family fun at the event on Saturday, April 22nd, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

For the past 24 years the Saint Thomas Quilters have been working to make a difference. Their mission is to show God's love through the comfort of a quilt.

Former Stockton man, Andrew Casad, was recently sentenced to four to six decades in prison for sexually assaulting four girls in Lincoln, Nebraska. Casad, 65, pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree sexual assault and one count of third-degree sexual assault of a child.

At the regular meeting of the Rooks County Commission held on Tuesday, March 28th, commissioners Kayla Hilbrink, Tim Berland, and John Ruder reviewed the County’s sick leave policy.

Kent Townley enjoyed camping at Webster Lake, so what better way to celebrate his life than to combine the things he loved to do in a memorial at his favorite campground, Goose Flats, located on the south side of the lake?

Stockton Grade School students from the third-grade classes of Ms. Brooke Werner and Mrs. Martha Fleck walked down to the Stockton Sentinel on a windy, Friday afternoon last week. The students were on an educational outing, hoping to learn more about informational writing from the Sentinel staff.

After serving for a total of 43 years as a city manager in the state of Kansas, Richard Nienstedt retired last Friday, March 31st. Nienstedt was city manager in Stockton from March 1983 to December 1989. For the past 16 years, he and his wife, Rita, have called Ottawa home.