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Traditions include Dress-Up Days, Pep Rally, Tailgate, and the Crowning of royalty Stockton High School will celebrate Homecoming this Friday, Sept. 19, capping off a week full of school spirit and community traditions.

Since receiving the Rural Champion grant award from the Kansas Department of Commerce last September, the Rooks County Healthcare Workforce (RCHW) initiative has been working towards developing a recruitment and retention plan for healthcare entities in Rooks County.

As the new school year unfolds in Stockton, students have been welcomed by a familiar face in a new role—Bobbie Phlieger, the town's newest special education teacher.

In a series of recent accidents in Rooks County, two incidents resulted in injuries while three involved collisions with deer. On July 22, Ryan Lee Carstens was transported to the hospital following a DUI-related crash with his cement truck he was driving, leaving the vehicle overturned.

In the heart of Stockton, a fresh wave of enthusiasm is sweeping through the halls of the junior high, thanks to the arrival of a passionate new social studies teacher, Ken McNatt.

A bridge in western Rooks County has been named as one of 27 local and off-system bridge projects across Kansas that will receive a combined total of $40.5 million in state and federal funding as part of two local bridge improvement programs.

A Luray woman remains in custody in the Rooks County Jail on a $10,000 bond following multiple drug charges being filed on Tuesday, August 5, in Rooks County District Court and following a Probable Cause/Arrest Report filed on July 28.

Multiple charges were filed on August 5 in Rooks County District Court against a Paradise man, Owen Curtis Keil, age 36, who was found with a loaded Smith and Wesson M&P 9mm gun, before the expiration of the statuatory prohibition period, and without having had such right restored, following a...

On Sunday evening in Stockton, as many were gathered around the television or preparing for bed, the ground suddenly shook beneath them. Residents described the moment, which lasted several seconds, as if something had hit their house.

The Kansas Department of Transportation announced the approval of bids for state highway construction and maintenance projects on Monday, September 8. One of those approved is for the Stockton area— U.S.