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Royal Valley third-grade students developed and built their own cardboard arcade games this semester to raise funds for a good cause.
The third annual project was spearheaded by the third-grader teachers at Royal Valley – Elizabeth VanHoutan, Chanity Daily and Ronette Oestreich – and the students’...
Jackson County is faring about the same as the average county in Kansas for health factors and outcomes, and better than the average county in the nation.
That’s according to the annual County Health Rankings and Roadmaps report, compiled by The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute...
New graduation requirements were approved for the Class of 2028 and beyond at Royal Valley following action Monday evening by the board of education.
The state has approved new graduation requirements, which Cassie Geis, RVHS principal, outlined during the board meeting.
Instead of four credits of...
After 10 years of working as a commercial plumber and pipefitter for McElroy’s in Topeka, Joe Pruett of Holton decided to strike out on his own.
“My wife and I had talked about it, and I’d kicked around the idea,” Pruett said of opening his own business, Easy Choice Plumbing and Pipe. “I liked the...
About 12 percent of registered Republican voters and 8.3 percent of registered Democrat voters in Jackson County participated in yesterday’s Presidential Preference Primary election here, which saw former President Donald Trump (Rep.) and current President Joe Biden (Dem.) receiving the most votes...
Before Scott Bartlett purchased the building at 326 Vermont Avenue that became known as Scott’s Shop, it had been the site of a gas station, owned or leased by several different people through the years.
Bartlett — who’s been semi-retired for “about four or five years” but still comes down to the...
Plans to expand U.S. Highway 75 north of Holton to four lanes moved forward on Thursday, March 7, when Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly announced that those plans have been added to the Kansas Department of Transportation’s IKE Development Pipeline and that $126 million in state funds has been earmarked for...
Not everyone is excited about plans to widen U.S. Highway 75 to four lanes between Holton’s north city limits and Kansas Highway 20 in Brown County, as comments heard about the highway expansion plans during Monday’s Jackson Heights USD 335 Board of Education meeting attested.
“No one is going to...
Market values for homes in Jackson County have increased by an average of nine percent this past year, according to Jackson County Appraiser Kate Immenschuh.
Property valuation notices were mailed to county property owners at the beginning of the month and values for all classifications were up....
When the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation started its chapter of the Boys and Girls Club back in 1998, the club was confined to a small room in the Potawatomi Activities Center, a 20-year-old building that, at the time it was built, housed the Potawatomi Tribal Council, the Elder Center, dining hall...
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