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Manhattan-based country singer Katie May will perform during this Saturday's Fall Fest.

WEEK 6 FOOTBALL PICKEM 2026 Oct. 9-11 1. Aeschliman Construction: Holton at Nemaha Central 2. Denison State Bank: Jackson Heights at Onaga 3. Beverley Brown & Co.: Horton at Royal Valley

Shown from left to right are Jackson Heights FFA members Jackson Jager, Rylie Strawn, Zoe Turner and Corbin Latham, enjoying the new “putt-putt” golf course that was built using funds donated by the family of Marvin and Melvena Ingels. (Photo by Brian Sanders)

FFA programs provide update on Ingels family donation

In March of 2023, the family of the late Marvin and Melvena Ingels, third-generation farmers who owned land in the Netawaka and Whiting area, made donations of more than $330,000 to each of the FFA programs at two Jackson County high schools — Hol

Holton native Sean Binkley recently won the Master 6 featherweight blue belt division at the World Master IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu Championship in Las Vegas. (Photo by Ali Holcomb)

Holton native Binkley earns jiu jitsu championship

Sean Binkley of Topeka, a Holton native and member of the Holton High School Class of 1988, is now a world champion in jiu-jitsu.

Holton High School e-sports coach Dillon Kathrens (at left) recently received a $5,044.72 donation from Giant Communications general manager Austin Taylor (at right) for the e-sports program at HHS. (Photo by Brian Sanders)

Donation from Giant benefits e-sports team at HHS

Holton High School’s library is a busy place after the regular school day — not the kind of busy involving students checking out books, but the kind involving students connecting with students from other schools across the country, getting ready f

USD 335 school board members and administrators turned ceremonial dirt for the construction of two new school building additions. Shown from left in the photo above are board members Michelle Schierling, Neal Keeler, David Holliday and David Allen, superintendent and elementary principal Jim Howard, middle and high school principal Kevin Vanderbilt and board members Kallie Kirk, Michelle Cochran and Mitch Bagby. (Photo by Brian Sanders)

Jackson Heights board breaks ground on building additions

"We’re finally cooking with some gas out there.”

Fall Fest is Saturday

The Holton/Jackson County Chamber of Commerce’s 19th-annual Fall Fest event promises visitors to Holton’s Town Square this Saturday, Oct. 10, ample opportunity to shop businesses and vendors on the Square, sample a variety of chili recipes and enjoy live music from Manhattan-based country singer...

HCT to stage "Little Women"

The four March sisters are coming to the Holton stage this October, bringing with them a story of family, ambition, love and the changing roles of women. Holton Community Theatre will present four performances of “Little Women: The Musical,” based on Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel. Performances...

Enrollment numbers up slightly at Royal Valley, down at other districts

Of Jackson County’s three school districts, only Royal Valley saw an increase in its student “headcount” from the 2025-26 school year to the current year — and a modest one at that, according to reports on the Sept. 21 headcount date from school districts in the Jackson County area. Royal Valley...

Shown from left to right in the photo above are James Oswald, Dave Snyder, Randy Miller, Jill Bleier and Lynn Rieschick, who recently represented Holton First Baptist Church on a recent, week-long mission trip to southeast Kentucky to provide aid to the Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) organization. This is the church’s third mission trip to the region to help families in extreme poverty by working with CAP, it was reported.

First Baptist Church volunteers serve families in Kentucky

Southeastern Kentucky, part of which is located within the Cumberland Plateau section of the Appalachain Mountains, contains some of the most beautiful scenery in the American Southeast, including Cumberland Falls State Resort Park. “Cumberland Falls is a pretty big deal down in that part of the...

Fall Fest is Saturday

HCT to stage "Little Women"

Enrollment numbers up slightly at Royal Valley, down at other districts

First Baptist Church volunteers serve families in Kentucky

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