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Mother Nature Creates Winter Wonderland for Tenth Annual Festival of Lights Parade
Article and photos by Hope Salyer Falling snowflakes glisten in the wind as emcee Gordie Kunzelman announces the start of the tenth annual Festival of Lights parade. Area residents lined Main Street in downtown Stockbridge to watch the light snow and kick off the Christmas season on Saturday, Nov. 27. With Santa stopping by the […]
Small Business Saturday Underway in Downtown Stockbridge
Small Business Saturday kicked off the Festival of Lights celebration on November 27 in downtown Stockbridge. The One Stop Holiday Shop, located at the Jr/Sr High School, will be open until 4 p.m. today. Local businesses around downtown Stockbridge are open today, and many are participating in the Elf Stops from 3-6 p.m. today, followed […]
Village of Stockbridge Council Meeting November 1, 2021
Meeting called to order by President Howlett at 7:00 pm Roll Call: PRESENT: Pro-Tem Frederick Cattell, Trustee Kim Morehouse, Trustee Greg Uihlein, Trustee Richard Mullins, ABSENT: President Molly Howlett, Trustee Chadwick Quintanilla, Trustee Anne Moceri; Others Present: Debbie Nogle, Village Clerk, John Gormley, Village Attorney, John Torres, Police Chief, Citizens were also present. Pledge of […]
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Waterloo Township Board Meeting Unapproved Minutes October 26, 2021
Call to Order and Pledge: 7:00 p.m. Present: Lance, Morency, Walz, McAlister, Kitley, and 10 residents. Also attending: Our Jackson County Sheriff Deputy Jim Moore. Public Comment: Garth Hannewald spoke of his displeasure for the way Planning Commission handled the change of zoning request from Glenn Farm Seeds and that it was done improperly and […]
5 Healthy Towns: One Big Connection
One Big Connection (OBC) is the official platform of the One Big Thing Initiative, a collaborative effort to enhance connections, optimism, resiliency and engagement in the 5 Healthy Towns region. We know that mental health is of the utmost importance. You can expect our OBC action teams to provide information, opportunities, and resources that suit […]
Happy Thanksgiving from our Family to yours
Wishing you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving – The SCN Team
Our community appreciates our teachers and school personnel
THANK YOU Stockbridge teachers and staff members for all that you do for the students and families in our community! You are appreciated.
Chicken watch: Hatch day
Published in Uncaged, October 2021 Maggie Maxwell, Uncaged reporter Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The box, in this case! In Timothy Salow’s agriculture class, some new classmates have joined, and they’re not like the others. Twenty-five baby chickens have been introduced to the class to be studied this semester. Through Future Farmers […]
Behind the scenes of the 2021 Community Thanksgiving Dinner
by Mary Jo David “Many hands make light work.” And many hands are certainly what’s needed when you’re shopping for and preparing the Stockbridge Community Thanksgiving Dinner—a 27-year tradition (not counting the 2020 cancellation due to COVID). According to Erin Smith, who has been the volunteer coordinator of this monumental feat for the past three […]
A glance in the rearview mirror
December 1921—Swamp trees for Christmas. Moonshine for hard colds. Worldwide shortage of marriageable men. by Mary Jo David The following news excerpts are from December 1921 editions of the Stockbridge Brief-Sun newspaper. These are mostly reproduced in the original, without edits or corrections. Visit the Stockbridge Library to view electronic copies of old local news […]