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The one-cent sales tax to pay for the Stockton City Swimming Pool began on January 1st, 2017. The new pool opened that summer on Tuesday, July 25th. It was anticipated at the time that the generated tax increase would be between $13,500.00 to $14,500.

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The Nova Theatre Board is looking for a few managers for the facility. Managers sign up once a month and oversee the theatre operations, which includes running the ticket booth and counting the money from the ticket sales and concession stand for that evening.

Commissioner Tim Berland brought up questions that he has been asked about the County’s funding to Redbud Village at the Tuesday, December 27th Rooks County Commission meeting.

It comes as no surprise that the biggest increase in the County’s tax revenue for the 2022 year is again in Oil with an increase of $1,054,439.78 for a total of $2,907,562.33. The 2021 total was $1,853,122.55.

The PRIDE committee has announced the winners of the Christmas Light Contest. They are: first place, Victoria Hrabe ($75.00 Chamber Check); second place, Cory Jones and Melissa Hemphill ($50.00 Chamber Check); and third place, Wade and Jacque Inglsbee ($25.00 Chamber Check).

As adults, we can all probably reflect on a time when we can point to one person who made a huge difference in our lives. For Cameron Lindsey, that just might be a guy in a lime green shirt who seemed to appear out of nowhere at a most difficult time in a road race.

With the arrival of 2023, the Stockton Sentinel would like to present its readers with the year in review for 2022, from local happenings, events and tragedies written within its pages over the past twelve months.

The gracious Stockton merchants and sponsors that make the 2023 Stockton Sentinel’s First Baby of 2023 Contest possible are: J-Mart, RGN Co., Inc.