Old Business for the Stockton City Commission on Tuesday, September 20th, started with the approval of the Nex-Tech agreements with the City dealing with the service agreement and $1.00 per access line. They then reviewed the Residential Revitalization Program for the City with city manager/ clerk Courtney Flower presenting additional information. That information will be sent out in the next City Newsletter for the residents as to what the program all entails and how they can apply for it if they have an outside project or repairs that need to be done to their property. A total of ten projects will be approved per year with Flower stating the SDIC is working on a similar program for businesses to help with repairing, updating or fixing the exterior of their buildings.

Meeting with the Rooks County Commissioners on Tuesday, September 20th was Ronda Morgan from the appraiser’s office. Morgan was in to get approval for the purchase of several shirts and sweatshirts for the office employees that had been ordered throughout the year. The office had just received the final bill for all of the clothing. The commissioners approved the shirt purchases in the total amount of $896.57.

The 2022 version of the Fly Kansas Air Tour will once again make a stop at Rooks County Regional Airport (RCP) on Friday, October 7. Anywhere from 30-40 planes will make the morning trip to RCP from their first stop of the morning at Augusta.

The fact that only 4.3 percent of all marathon runners ever qualify for the Boston Marathon proves just what a feat it is to accomplish. So being able to say you qualified for the world’s oldest annual marathon in the first marathon race you ever ran is even more amazing!

It’s time once again to scare up some Fall and Halloween fun at the Stockton PUMPKIN PATCH, which will pop up in the Stockton City Park located on west Highway 24, on Saturday, October 1st from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The Richard Schleicher Memorial Bull Riding event, held on Saturday, September 24th at the Phillipsburg Rodeo grounds, was a moving tribute to the young man whose life was tragically cut short in a car accident after he had competed at the Pendleton (Ore.)

Zach Kesler stepped into his position as Webster State Lake’s Park Ranger on September 1st, 2002, and officially became the park manager in February of 2007. When Kesler started twenty years ago, he had just received his degree in Park Management and Conservation from Kansas State University. While in college he worked for the Corps of Engineers at Tuttle Creek for two summers and one summer at Perry State Park by Topeka.

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. After a 21-day waiting period, the doctors recently performed the tests to see if the transplant took. Here is what his grandmother Ellen has written: “All of Ezra’s blood work is starting to come back normal!

A second small earthquake was detected in northwest Kansas on Monday morning last week. At 8:09 a.m.