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The Jackson County Commissioners are looking into selling several homes and vacant lots acquired by the county through recent tax sales.  During a recent commission meeting, the commissioners learned from Earl Bahret and Eric Fritz, road and bridge department co-supervisor, that a local resident is...
Note: This is the 15th story in a series about doctors in our community. Dr. Edward D. McKenzie, D.C., 66, has 46 years of experience as a doctor of chiropractic. He and his wife, Cathy, operate Holton Chiropractic Center at 928 W. 6th St. in Holton. Originally from the Kansas City area, Dr....
Members of the U.S. Army unit that included U.S. Army Specialist Four Danny J. Petersen will hold a “company reunion” this weekend, and the unit’s activities will include a Saturday morning ceremony at Petersen’s grave in Netawaka Cemetery. Petersen, a member of Company B (Bravo Company), 4th...
A Topeka resident charged with shooting at motorists along U.S. Highway 75 on New Year’s Eve in southern Jackson County pleaded not guilty to a new set of charges stemming from the same incident. Cory D. Huff, 51, stood silent on Tuesday morning in Jackson County District Court when asked for his...
Arizona resident Robert Kropp (left) on Thursday visited the Topeka home of Holton High School alumna Viola (Richter) Row (right) to return a bracelet that Row purchased for her boyfriend, the late George Zellers (in frame), also an HHS graduate. Kropp’s discovery of the bracelet in the Arizona desert touched off a search for facts about Zellers, as well as the woman who purchased the bracelet and had “With love, Viola,” engraved on the back. (Photo by Brian Sanders)
  On Feb. 18, 1944, the love story of two people from Holton seemingly came to a tragic end with the midair crash of two B-24 Liberators over the skies of central Arizona. As a result, two young lovers were ripped apart. On Thursday, in a manner of speaking, they were brought to­gether again. The...
Those elected to serve as Kansas state FFA officers for 2015-16 at the 87th annual Kansas FFA Convention include, from left, Sentinel Gabryelle Gilliam, Washington County; Reporter Kyler Langvardt, Chapman; Treasurer Lane Coberly, Chapman; Secretary Dean Klahr, Holton; Vice President Bailey Peterson, Buhler; and President Karl Wilhelm, Holton. The election of Wilhelm and Klahr to state offices marks the first time that two Holton FFA members have been elected to serve in the same year. (Submitted photo)
  Two recent Holton High School graduates have been chosen to serve as Kansas FFA officers for the 2015-16 year, marking the first time in the school’s history that HHS has sent two to serve in state positions, it was reported during last week’s Kansas FFA Convention. Karl Wilhelm was elected to...
  Less than half of the land that lies within the boundaries of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Reservation is owned by the tribe or tribal members, but a new federal land buy-back program is being implemented to help open up more land for productive use. “We were losing our land, and we had no...
Dee Barrow has retired after 42 years in education.
Dee Barrow of Holton has retired after a 42-year career in education. Barrow served as the principal of the county’s Fresh Start program for the past 17 years. Barrow was born in Holton and graduated from Denison High School in 1969. She went on to Highland Junior College and then transferred to...
Three people were hospitalized after a two-vehicle accident occurred on U.S. Highway 75 between Mayetta and Hoyt on Sunday afternoon. Shortly after 4 p.m., the Kansas Highway Patrol reports that a 2001 Ford F-150 pickup truck driven by Ramon Alexander Noriega, 78, Mayetta, entered the highway from...

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