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A suspect sought in connection with a stabbing in Holton Monday evening was captured south of Holton Tuesday, according to Jackson County Sheriff Morse. Bond and charges for the suspect, Austin Lee Whitebird, 22, of Horton were still pending at press time.  The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office...
  A Mayetta resident has been charged with first-degree murder and drug charges following the stabbing death of a Mayetta woman early Saturday on the Prairie Band Potawatomi Reservation, according to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse said Wilson R. Noriega, 49,...
  To help Santa with his Christmas checklist, The Holton Recorder will publish letters to Santa on Wednesday, Dec. 16. Due to the large amount of letters we receive each year, please limit letters to no more than 150 words. Letters may be sent to The Holton Recorder, P.O. Box 311, Holton, KS, 66436...
  Most of the food items for Thursday’s Community Thanks­giving Dinner have been donated, according to dinner organizer Freda Galer, but many vegetable items are still needed for the dinner. “We’ve gotten a lot of calls this last week,” Galer said. “We did get quite a bit.” Galer also noted that...
Members of the AmeriCorps team serving in Jackson County until Dec. 18 include (front row, from left) team leader Julian Jordan, Barrie Schmitt, Linna Bounxayavong; Audrey Snyder, (back row, from left) Steve Phillips, Alec Bandemier, Amanda Iscoa, Isaac Dahl, Katie Olson and Jesse Mitts (inset). Not pictured is Erica Blue. (Photo by Ali Holcomb)
  A group of young adults – complete strangers to Jackson County and Kansas – have volunteered and are working in the community for six weeks, serving older adults through Homestead Affordable Housing and making improvements to Banner Creek Reservoir. The 11 team members, volunteers through...
Holton High School juniors Madi Lira (center) and April Utterback (right) used the Tinkercad computer-aided drawing program to create a Thanksgiving turkey during their participation in a Thursday morning STEM curriculum course at Banner Creek Science Center. Lira said she was “getting a little bit frustrated” that the turkey wasn’t turning out how she expected, but Utterback added, “this is probably one of our better ones.” (Photo by Brian Sanders)
  Holton High School students aren’t the only ones benefiting from a team effort of the Holton school district and the Greenbush special education cooperative of Girard to give students a greater exposure to the STEM curriculum. On Thursday, HHS students were using computer-aided draw­ing (CAD)...
Jackson County recently purchased Forrester Truck Parts & Repair (shown above) for use as the county's shop for road and bridge department equipment and other county vehicles. The business and seven acres of land were purchased for $350,000. The property is located at the intersection of 246th Road and U.S. Highway 75, just north of Holton.
In a matter of hours on Friday, the Jackson County Commissioners toured and then agreed to purchase a building to serve as the new home for the county shop.  On Monday morning, the commissioners – Bill Elmer, Janet Zwonitzer and Rob Ladner – signed off on paperwork to purchase a large shop building...
Central Elementary School third-grade students (from left to right) Maverick Hug, Abby Wellman and Addyson Schumaker signed their names on a white steel beam to be placed as the final beam on the structure of the new Holton Elementary School during a "topping off" ceremony on Monday afternoon.
On Monday, more than 500 students and staff from Holton’s Colorado and Central elementary schools and other invited guests left their mark on the new Holton Elementary School by putting their signatures on the final steel beam to be put into place in the new school building. Jon Pahl, executive...
Paula Birkbeck Taylor has loved the art of dance since she was a little girl growing up in the Kansas City area. “That was my thing,” Taylor said. “I took dance classes all those years, and I loved it.” When Taylor and her parents, Jim and Mary Lou Birkbeck, moved to Holton, she wanted to continue...
KC and The Sunshine Band dominated the airwaves in the 1970s with hit single after hit single such as “Get Down Tonight,” “That’s the Way (I Like It)” and “Boogie Shoes.” Fans of the group can shake their booties during the band’s performance Friday at the Prairie Band Casino & Resort Great...

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