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Body The Mid-Continent Elementary League Music Festival took place at Norton on Wednesday, February 26th. Several Stockton music students took solos to the event.

Body The town of Stockton came out in full force to honor Donald Stratton, one of the last three survivors of the U.S.S. Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 as he was taken to his final resting place in Red Cloud, Nebraska.

Body The St. Thomas Knights of Columbus will be hosting a Fish Fry this Friday, March 6th at the St. Thomas Parish Hall in Stockton. The Free Will offering will begin at 5:00 p.m. and will continue until the food runs out, so come early! See you there!

Body THESE STOCKTON MEN participated in the Grand Island Bowling Tourney at the end of February in 1997. The men brought home $1,956.23 in prize money out of a total payout of $10,485.25.

Body * And So They Say: Les Eckart: “You haven’t tried anything till you’ve tried to get a passport photo.” Butch Ostmeyer: “I don’t think it will be too long until we have the 1964 Fair lined up pretty well.”

Body At the Rooks County Commission meeting held on Tuesday, February 18th, sheriff Gary Knight, emergency management director Butch Post and road and bridge supervisor Rich Bouchey met with the commissioners to finalize cost details for the radio antennae installation for the County.

Body GREGG GARTRELL, left, was recognized recently at the annual meeting of the Rooks County Conservation Service by Chairman Gregg Whisman, right. Gregg is a current member of the Rooks County Conservation District Board of Supervisors, serving as Vice Chairman.

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Body Federal funds make their way to Northwest Kansas in the form of lunches children eat at school, Medicaid dollars paid for nursing home care, road and bridge projects and a variety of other ways.