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Body Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism’s (KDWPT) Flint Hills Trail and Prairie Spirit Trail state parks recently received America’s highest trails honor when they were designated National Recreational Trails by the National Park Service.

Body To raise awareness of the importance of driving safely, 358 officers from 92 Kansas law enforcement agencies spent a combined total of 2,569 hours conducting the SAFE Enforcement Campaign near high schools between Feb. 22 and March 5.

Body Rooks County continues to see a decrease in new COVID-19 cases throughout the county. This week the absenteeism rate is at 0.0% above the baseline from 2019-2020. The positive testing rate is at 6.2% this week.

Body The Stockton eighth-grade Scholars Bowl Team finished a busy season as the league’s top team. During the 2021 junior high Scholars Bowl season, the Stockton students attended regular meets at TMP, Osborne, Ellis, Hill City, Phillipsburg, as well as hosted one in Stockton.

Body CHANDLER BRASS lends a helping hand to his daughter, Brooklyn, during the annual Sigma Phi ESA Easter Hunt held this past Saturday, April 3rd, on the lawn at Solomon Valley Manor..

Body The stilling basin at Webster Reservoir near Stockton will be closed to all activities beginning April 19, 2021. This popular fishing location will be closed for approximately 3 years to allow completion of a large construction project.

Body For those of you who did not read the entire article in our April 1st issue about the Sentinel closing for a week so the staff could go on vacations, April Fools twice over! We loved dreaming up our wonderful vacations and playing an April Fool’s joke on our readers!

Body A Kansas woman was injured in an accident just after 9:30 a.m. Thursday, March 25th, in Phillips County.

Body This spring, the Kansas Honor Scholars Program, which marks its 50th anniversary as a tradition of the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment, honored more than 3,600 high school seniors throughout Kansas for their academic excellence and achievement.

Body (Due to a large part of this story being omitted in last week’s issue, we are rerunning this article in its entirety. We apologize for this oversight.