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Look for the new addition of Family & Business Solutions in the Sentinel’s Business Directory in this week’s paper.

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.

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.

Restoration Health & Chiropractic in Plainville, Kansas has expanded to the previous Phillipsburg and Stockton Chiropractic Centers. The Chiropractic Centers was purchased by Dr. Shelbe Darnell in April 2021. All three locations will be Restoration Health & Chiropractic.

Lindsay Cravens was hired as the new high school principal at a special meeting of the Stockton Unified School District No.

Please note the “early” birthdate of this week’s Civil War veteran. Like Amos Earlywine, Jacob Boyer was born in the 1820s.

The Rooks County Commissioners again discussed the National Heritage Area designation at their regular weekly meeting held on Tuesday, April 13th. Dennis Dryden was also present to ask some questions about the meeting commissioner Tim Berland had attended last week about the designation.