Benefit Lunch for Serenity Carpenter postponed
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The Benefit Lunch for Serenity Carpenter has been postponed due to COVID-19. Please watch the Sentinel for updates about when the event will be held..
Area wheat harvest update and final numbers
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As of Monday, July 13th, the Stockton Farmers Union Elevator has taken in 380,000 bushels of wheat with the Woodston Coop taking in 270,000.00 bushels. This 2020 harvest is 70% of a five-year total with the lower numbers mainly due to frost damage, lost acreage and not as good as yields as in previous years. These should be the final totals of the harvest since the elevator had only one farmer still out in the field finishing up his crop at the beginning of the week.
County schools create COVID-19 Advisory Group
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In preparation for the upcoming school year, a Rooks County Schools COVID-19 Advisory Group has been created with representatives from the medical community and all Rooks County schools (USD 269, USD 270, USD 271, and Sacred Heart School). The purpose of the advisory committee is to gather and discuss the most up-to-date information from Rooks County Public Health, CDC, KDHE, and KSDE, then to provide recommended policies and procedures to the schools in terms of how to safely start and continue the 2020-21 school year.
Webster & Rooks State Lake in "Watch" and "Warning" due to Blue-Green Algae
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The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), in conjunction with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT), has issued its list of public health advisories for Kansas lakes due to blue-green algae. Included in the new advisory are: Rooks State Fishing Lake and Webster Reservoir.
The latest COVD-19 case in Rooks County Case has recovered
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According to a FB post Thursday morning, July 9th, from the official Rooks County, Kansas COVID-19 page, the latest Rooks County case has recovered and the county currently has no "Active Cases" at this time.
Patrol reports Independence Day holiday activity
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The Kansas Highway Patrol has released its Independence Day Holiday Activity Report. The reporting period for the holiday ran from 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 2 through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, July 5, 2020.
At last…SHS Class of 2020 to graduate Saturday!
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Diplomas will be presented to the 2020 Stockton High School Class this Saturday, July 11th at 7:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium.
Anna Larson hired as Stockton’s Code Ordinance Officer
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When the City of Stockton Police Department and the Rooks County Sheriff’s Department combined the law enforcement agency into one unit at the start of this year, one of the duties that the City still needed to cover was that of enforcing Stockton’s code ordinances.
Benefit for Serenity Carpenter to be held Sunday, July 19th postponed due to COVID-19
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Ten-year-old Serenity Carpenter was diagnosed with Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (SJIA) in April of 2018 after months of fighting a fever and rash and not knowing the cause. Beginning in January of that year, Serenity would come home from school every afternoon with a very high fever and a rash that kept spreading all over her body and making her feel terrible. She was taken to many different doctors to try to figure out what was causing it, with the doctors thinking it was a virus or a post viral rash and that it would just go away in time. Serenity would go to sleep and by the next morning she would wake up feeling fine, but by the afternoon, the fever and rash would flare up again.
New Positive COVID-19 case identified in Rooks County
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The Rooks County Health Department is confirming the ninth positive case of COVID-19 in Rooks County. The case was identified today with testing performed at Quest Labs.
“Rooks County local and public health officials continue to work together to limit the spread of COVID-19,” Rooks County Health Officer, Dr. Jen Brull said. “It is our main priority to keep Rooks County citizens healthy and safe.”
