Plainville Shelbe Darnell, has chiropractic offices in Plainville and Stockton. She has a Bachelor degree in Human Biology and a Doctorate degree in Chiropractic from Cleveland Chiropractic College in Kansas City.

The Rooks County Health Center’s annual meeting and board elections are this Friday, May 3rd, in the Cottonwood/ Greenhorn meeting rooms of the Rooks County Health Center (1210 North Washington, Plainville). Before the annual meeting at 6:00 p.m., there will be a candidate question and answer session from 5:00 p.m.

The Stockton Junior High vocal and band students attended the PTL Music Contest at Pike Valley on Wednesday, April 24th. They were dressed for success, and this showed in their ratings.

Stockton’s Main Street has just upped its game with a state-of-the-art sound system that has been in the works for the past few years. The Heartland Youth Action Group, consisting of Stockton High School students Taigen Kerr, Aubrey Kesler, and Cappi Hoeting, took on the project of a new sound system for Main Street quite a while ago by helping with the fundraising and meeting with City members and Electronic Life of Topeka to approve and finalize a system that would best suit the town’s needs.

The Red Line Cruisers Car Club has finalized plans for its 8th Annual Cruise Night and Car Show, which is shaping up to be another great weekend. The event is scheduled for Cruise Night on Friday, May 3, and the Car Show on Saturday, May 4.

The Stockton USD 271 Board of Education held two special meetings, the first on Thursday, April 18th. At the meeting, they reviewed the findings from the Focus Group meetings, which covered community surveys, salary schedule comparisons, and the interview process overview as the Board continues its search for a new superintendent and high school principal.

The Rooks County Commissioners started their weekly session on Tuesday, April 16th, by meeting with health nurse Lori Eichman. They reviewed the bids for the IT services for her department that were presented the week before. The commissioners voted to accept the bid from CK Technology Services for the health office’s IT system at $539.50 per month. The commissioners stated they would also work on an IT bundle for all courthouse departments with it noted that the health department would be able to transfer to the combined service.

They had Woodys and Ariels a plenty, and Elsas and Brunos galore at the Disney Favorites Kindergarten through fifth-grade spring music concert at the Stockton High School gym on Tuesday, April 16th. The evening’s performances began with the fifth-grade band performing the songs “Little Brown Jug” and “Rock ‘n Roll Blues” in front of the Disney castle backdrop before the Disney extravaganza of vocal music began.

At the Stockton City Commission meeting on Tuesday, April 16th, the commissioners received an update on the Red Fest event to be held in June in Stockton. Colton Williams and Julie Hartner attended the meeting to answer questions about the event. Williams stated that the goal is to bring people to Stockton, and he volunteered to oversee the event at the Chamber of Commerce meeting.

We begin this week's accident reports with the first two resulting from the wintry weather our area received on March 8. Four of this week's ten accident reports were because of icy/snowy roads.