The 39th annual Parade of Christmas Trees at the Stockton Public Library has come to a close with many creative trees on display this year. One hundred and sixty-one people signed the register and voted for their favorites throughout the month of December. The winners were recently announced as follows: (Adult Category)

May 4—The Sentinel wrote a feature article about Stockton’s new rec director, Lane Stapleton. Eugene D.

A massive winter storm moved into western Kansas late Sunday evening and during the early morning hours with blizzard warnings and predictions of up to seven to fourteen inches of snowfall. In anticipation of the snowstorm, Stockton School District #271 called school off for Monday, January 8th, Sunday night. The District also canceled the monthly school board meeting for that evening and rescheduled it to a later date.

By Virgi Laska Stockton Sentinel The regular monthly meeting for the Stockton City Commission was on Tuesday, January 2nd. There were several items on the agenda for the commissioners to review to start the new year.

By Virgi Laska Stockton Sentinel At the weekly Rooks County Commission meeting on Tuesday, January 2nd, the commissioners met with Mark Schaukowitch, who talked to them about the Local Ad Valoreum Tax Reduction (LATR) program and Medicare Expansion. He explained the LATR program and asked that the commissioners get the information to the public about how it works.

After looking high and low and everywhere in between for the past few weeks, the Stockton Sentinel was not been able to find the 1926 bound issues of the Rooks County Record/Review. So we are skipping over a few years because there are also no copies to be found of the 1927, 1928, and 1929 books, not even on newspapers.com, the library, etc.

Five Rooks County businesses were recognized at a Business Appreciation event held at the Handle-Bar Tavern & Eatery in Plainville on Monday, December 18th. The local event, sponsored by Rooks County Economic Development, was held as part of the annual Kansas Business Awards given out each year by the Kansas Department of Commerce.

With the arrival of 2024, the Stockton Sentinel would like to present its readers with the Year in Review for 2023, from local happenings, events and tragedies written within its pages over the past twelve months.

The Stockton Public Library will be hosting its Storytime Program with stories, crafts and more for all ages on Friday mornings at 10:00 a.m. starting this Friday, January 5th. The program schedule has fun themes lined up almost every Friday from January through the end of April. Please note there will be no Storytime on the Fridays when school is not in session.

At the regular meeting of the Rooks County Commission on Tuesday, December 26th, a Public Hearing was held to transfer Redbud Village in Plainville to Rooks County Senior Services. In attendance were commissioners Jake Prockish, Tim Berland, John Ruder, clerk Laura Montgomery, county attorney Danielle Muir, Senior Services chairman Rusty Hrabe, and Redbud Board member Ashley Comeau (via phone).