STOCXTON, Minn. — Anybody and everybody with a connection to Riser’s Bar showed up for the bar’s three-day Stockton Fest. So too did kids for outdoor events and a movie the first evening as well as a campfire, smores, hot dogs and popcorn. Foir food trucks were in and out over the three days. Indoor activity centered on the bar. Two drunken-driving arrests occurred over the weekend, but deputies were unsure whether they related to the merry-making and revelry at Riser’s. The Stockton town fathers were careful to point that Riser’s “Stockton Fest” had no connection to the traditional and relatively sedate community-sponsored “Stockton Days “celebration a few days earlier.
Riser’s, the only bar in town. Cars lined both sides of Main Street for 1-1/2 blocks each direction – a rarity for Stockton, population 800.