MAGGIE ARNOLD’S final day at the Stockton Post Office was Friday, February 28th. Maggie, who lives near Alton, has worked for the postal service for seven years, and has been in Stockton for four of them. She accepted a position at Marty Wolters’ State Farm Insurance office in Osborne. Postal patrons will miss seeing her smiling face and kind heart.

Strong winds prompted fire calls to the Stockton Fire Department over the weekend beginning on Saturday morning, March 7th when the department received a call for mutual aid from Woodston to help with a fire at Keith Chesney’s property. Milo stalks had caught on fire, but thankfully by the time firemen arrived, the fire had been put out and contained with the use of a tractor plowing around the area. This was just the first of several calls received through- out the day as the volunteers were again called out for mutual aid at 12:16 p.m. to help with a grass fire located west of Glade. The next call came at 4:26 p.m. when the volunteers put out a dumpster fire at the Stockton Street Shop, but that was not the end of the calls for that day. Stockton received their last call Saturday for mutual aid near Plainville to help with a grass fire located at the Rooks County line near Natoma at 12:59 p.m.

At the end of three executive sessions for the purpose of discussing superintendent evaluation, certified staff, administrative contracts and supplemental contracts on Tuesday, March 3rd, the Stockton USD #271 Board of Education members voted to renew grade school principal Stacey Green, high school principal Gary McCown and superintendent Bill Lowry’s contracts for an additional year. They also voted to hire Justin Basart as assistant high school track coach for the coming sports season.