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The valued assessed on all real estate and personal property in Jackson County increased by $4.269 million this past year, according to the estimated valuations that were recently certified for Jackson County. In addition, each school district in the county and each city, except Mayetta, reported...
The winter wheat harvest in Jackson County has just gotten under way in recent days, and so far, it’s looking like this year’s crop will be better than last year’s crop, according to local agriculture experts. On the other hand, this year’s brome hay harvest has been spotty so far, with results...
Volunteers are desperately needed to organize this summer’s Jackson County Relay For Life, according to Melissa Easterberg, community manager of development for the American Cancer Society Relay For Life.   “At the moment, we don’t have a volunteer base to really put forth a relay,” Easterberg said...
Last year, when the new asphalt track was being installed around Jackson Heights High School’s football field, Larry Amon wondered why the concession stand at the football field couldn’t be updated as well. Amon took the idea of mounting a volunteer effort to raise funds to fix the concession stand...
The amount of electricity used by Holton municipal utility customers hasn’t changed much in the past decade, but the wholesale cost of that electricity has gone down by about 14 percent, the Holton City Commission learned on Monday. The reasons for electricity costs coming down in recent years,...
Holton chiropractor Joe Schneider's last day on the job will be Friday after serving the Holton community for nearly 32 years. (Photo by Ali Holcomb)
  Joe Schneider, a doctor of chiropractic medicine in Holton, is set to retire at the end of this week. Dr. Schneider’s last day with patients is Friday. “I began working in Holton August of 1984, so it’s been 31 years and 10 months,” Schneider said. Schneider has been easing into retirement as he...
  At its recent meeting, the Holton school board discussed and and approved an expenditure of $159,589.20 in technology updates for the Holton Elementary School after visiting with technology director Tom Sextro and assistant Gordon Lamme. Most of the money was budgeted in the bond money and with...
  After being convicted in March on child sex charges in Jackson County District Court, a Soldier resident is asking for a third trial on the charges, with his attorney stat­ing that due to a witness for the prosecution allegedly misrepre­senting herself, he did not receive a fair trial. Anthony...
  Jackson County Attorney Shawna Miller is resigning from her position as the county counselor and will no longer be advising the Jackson County Commissioners on legal matters, it was reported. During a recent commission meeting, the commissioners received a letter of resignation from Miller as the...
Mark your calendars. A grand opening public event for the new Holton Elementary School is now being tentatively planned for 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 18, according to “important dates’’ listed at Monday’s school board meeting. If everything continues to progress nicely at the new Holton Elementary...

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