The 2020 Stockton High School Homecoming event is featured in this issue of the Sentinel. A special pull-out section is devoted to individual photos of the football, volleyball, cheer and cross country teams, and Homecoming royalty candidates and their sponsors.

There will be a government surplus commodities distribution the week of September 28th for those in the Plainville and Stockton areas. Plainville will hold its distribution on Monday, September 28th from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.

The Stockton Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual fall City-Wide Garage Sale is this Saturday, September 26th from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon. Due to low participation, there will be no city maps since there are only three garage sale sign ups. The three garage sales are: Peggy Bebb at 123 North Spruce on Friday, September 25th at 5:00 p.m. until ?, and on Saturday, September 26th at 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon; the Stockton Wrestling Club at 305 North First on Friday, starting at 10:00 a.m. until ?, and on Saturday starting at 8:00 a.m. until ?; and the Stockton Rodders Multi-family garage sale at 109 North Elm on Saturday starting at 8:00 a,m. until 4:00 p.m.

Jessica Billinger of Stockton has been chosen to be a recipient of a new program called the Country Music Teacher Classroom Initiative. The Country Music Teacher Classroom Initiative (CMTCI) is designed to provide teachers with classroom supplies and project funds across the United States.

The tragedy of a 7-year-old student at St. Andrew’s Elementary School in Abilene who died last Wednesday morning, September 9th, while crossing the road to board a school bus, has ties to former Stockton residents.

(The following article is from an email the Stockton Sentinel received from Craig Swank, the grandson of the Nova and Park Theater founders, Everitt and Bessie. We hope you enjoy the fond memories Craig has of the Nova and of Stockton as much as we did.)