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Standards-based report card approved for RVES

A new standards-based report card has been approved for Royal Valley Elementary School in order to help parents understand their child’s academic progress more clearly. “The main difference is that it’s not going to show points; it will just show a grade scale using the new standards score,” RVES...

Recently, the board of directors at Beck-Bookman Library (at right) approved the purchase of a house at 410 Kansas Ave., directly behind the library, which Librarian Candee Jacobs said will be demolished in the near future for the future expansion of the library. The purchase price of the house, which was sold at a recent sheriff’s sale at the Jackson County Courthouse, was $98,356, it was reported. (Photo by Brian Sanders)

Library wants public's input on future expansion

With the purchase of a house at 410 Kansas Ave. finalized earlier this month by the Beck-Bookman Library Board of Directors, the library’s leaders are looking to get the house demolished before considering any plans for the library’s expansion. And when it’s time to make those plans, Librarian...

Jackson County Fair photos available online

A total of 163 championship photos from the Jackson County 4-H Fair, held during the last week of July, are available to view and download for free on The Holton Recorder’s website, www.holtonrecorder.net Photos of 4-H members and their championship animals or exhibits can be viewed online in the...

29th annual Pride of Hoyt Days set for weekend

On Saturday, Aug. 29, rain or shine, the residents of Hoyt invite everyone in the area to come and share in a little community pride. The 29th annual Pride of Hoyt Days event will be held Saturday with most events taking place in Hoyt City Park, according to event organizer Melissa Hosier, who...

Jennifer Shaw (left) and Alecia O’Byrne are shown packing boxes of food at the Jackson County Ministerial Alliance New Hope Center Food Pantry, which is located in the basement of the First Christian Church in Holton. Shaw is stepping down as the director of the pantry at the end of the month, and O’Byrne will serve as her replacement. (Photo by Ali Holcomb)

O'Byrne tabbed to lead New Hope food pantry

One in seven Kansans reportedly struggle with hunger on a daily basis, but the volunteers at the Jackson County food pantry are making sure area residents don’t go hungry. On a monthly basis, the Jackson County Ministerial Alliance New Hope Center Food Pantry feeds more than 300 people who don’t...

St. Marys man killed in accident on PBP reservation

A 23-year-old St. Marys man died as the result of a one-vehicle accident Wednesday evening on 134th Road on the Prairie Band Potawatomi reservation, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol. Shortly before 7:30 p.m. that day, KHP reports that Artak Nicholas McCarthy was traveling westbound on 134th...

Congresswoman and Holton native Lynn Jenkins (right) stopped on Thursday at Holton’s Medical Pharmacy to visit with pharmacist Joe Gilliland (left) and his wife, Carrie, and discuss health care concerns during Jenkins’ two-day tour of hospitals and health care centers in eastern Kansas. (Photo by Brian Sanders)

Quality rural health care high on Jenkins' priority list

Providing Kansans in rural areas with adequate access to good health care services remains a high priority for Lynn Jenkins, the Congresswoman and Holton native said during a Thursday afternoon visit to Medical Pharmacy. While Jenkins said it was “inspirational to see the great work being done...

Holton USD 336 Superintendent Dennis Stones (second from right in above photo) welcomed kids such as second-grader Kendra Dallas (left) and kindergartner Logan Dallas to the start of a new year at Colorado Elementary School in Holton Wednesday morning. Colorado and Central elementary schools are now in their final year, set to be replaced next year by the new Holton Elementary School, which is under construction just west of Colorado School.

Students return to school

Wednesday the first day of the 2015-16 school year in the Holton, Jackson Heights and Royal Valley school districts.

County inks new contract with Jackson County EMS

The Jackson County Commissioners have approved a new one-year contract with Jackson County EMS for ambulance services. The new county contract represents a $65,000 increase over the previous one. At a special meeting Tuesday, the commissioners signed off on the new contract, which will begin Jan. 1...

Onaga hospital completes expansion, sets ribbon cutting

On Sunday, Aug. 30, officials from Onaga-based Community HealthCare System will cut the ribbon that opens the doors to the newly-expanded Community Hospital Onaga, a facility that CHCS Director Eric Bjelland says is “really exciting.” Nearly 60 years after the existing Community Hospital Onaga...