The 2021 Stockton High School Graduating Class will receive their diplomas this Saturday, May 8th at 3:00 p.m. in the high school auditorium. The event will begin with the Processional of the graduates with superintendent Bill Lowry to give the Welcome. Next Mr. Scott Bennett will introduce the Salutatorian and Valedictorian, who will then give their speeches to the audience consisting of family, friends and classmates.

THE SUNDAY EVENING THUNDERSTORM made itself known with the rain accumulations varying from two to eight inches in and to the north of Stockton. The runoff of the water came to rest in Dibble Creek located west of Stockton, as well as on the Stockton football field and the field west of the creek where the fireworks stand is located.

The beef industry was well represented in Manhattan on Saturday, April 17th when hundreds of people filled the streets of Aggieville for the first Aggieville Showdown Grand Drive and Fashion Show. The exhibition combined a western fashion show, a live concert from Lucas Maddy and $5,000.00 of prizes in the premier grand drive right on Moro Street.

Funky Junky’s Thrift and Collectibles (506 East Main) is now in the Stockton Sentinel’s Business Directory. This unique thrift store is open on Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., as well as on Sundays from 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m.

Look for the new addition of Family & Business Solutions in the Sentinel’s Business Directory in this week’s paper. Jason Jackson, who started the company in 2018, is certified in many areas with his umbrella protection company covering family/individual protection, identify theft, small business, cyber security, gun owner protection, CDL driver plans, and much, much more.

HAYS — The six inches of snow Hays residents woke up to last Tuesday morning melted rapidly and was pretty much gone by late that afternoon. The spring snow came during a hard freeze overnight Monday of 23 degrees. Although April snow isn’t unheard of in Hays, and larger amounts of snow have fallen during “the cruelest month,” this is the latest date in April that Hays has seen the white stuff. According to Joe Becker, agricultural tech supervisor at the K-State Agricultural Research Center and keeper of official weather records, the six inches of snow measured April 20 is the latest snowfall in April recorded in 152 years in Hays. Becker’s chart shows a record eight inches of snow fell earlier in the month, on April 8, 1919. Previously, the latest April snowfall in Hays was on April 11, 1953, at 6.8 inches. (Hays- Post.com)

Hiram Toliver Co. E, 39th Iowa Infantry Volunteers Regiment Hiram Toliver (also spelled Tolliver) was born 29 April 1822, in North Carolina, son of John and Anna (Long) Toliver.

The Kansas Department of Transportation planned to begin work on a pair of bridge repair projects along I-70 in Russell County beginning this week. Crews will be repairing the westbound bridges located between mile markers 196 and 200 near Dorrance.

It’s the nightmare scenario for grain workers: You’re working inside the grain bin when you’re suddenly engulfed by grain. You try to escape, but the grain acts like quicksand, making it impossible to pull yourself out— and difficult for anyone else to lift you out without specialized training.