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It’s fair time again!
The big week of the 101st Jackson County 4-H Fair starts on Monday, July 13, and final preparations are being made for this year’s event at the Northeast Kansas Heritage Complex south of Holton, where a wide variety of 4-H and open class exhibits, livestock shows and sale and...
Seventy-five years ago, Wes Harris of Holton helped build a sale barn for Frank Zibell east of Holton, in a time when the concept of merchandising livestock at auction was relatively new, as Harris told The Holton Recorder in 1978.
Over time, however, auctions became the prime method for selling...
This is the time of year when motorists driving through Jackson County are likely to see large round bales of hay dotting pastures on either side of the highway, but rainfall received in Jackson County through late spring and early summer has put a damper on the brome hay harvest in the county....
Teachers, classified staff and administrators in the Royal Valley school district will receive a 1.75 percent salary increase for the 2026-27 school year as part of a new salary agreement approved during the Royal Valley Board of Education meeting on June 24.
As part of the new contract, the...
Over the last half-century, hairstyles and the methods used to create them have changed, and Shirley Teal and her sister-in-law, Lynnette Bruns, have seen them come and go.
“Not many people get their hair rolled on rollers anymore,” Teal said last Friday while styling a customer’s hair with hair...
A change in Holton’s zoning regulations that would permit single-story building owners on Holton’s Town Square to split their buildings between commercial and residential use has received the Holton Planning Commission’s approval.
But before owners of single-story buildings on the Square start...
The Jackson County Commissioners discussed possible staff reductions with two department heads Monday as they continue preparing the county’s 2027 budget amid financial constraints.
During Monday’s Jackson County Commission meeting, commissioners met separately with Road and Bridge Superintendent...
On Saturday morning, June 20, more than 100 Holton community volunteers came together to do maintenance work at Holton’s elementary and high schools — landscaping, patching and painting walls, sealing football bleachers at the district’s football stadium, sheetrock repair and more.
The volunteer...
Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse is encouraging residents to sign up for Hyper-Reach, a free new countywide emergency and weather alert system recently implemented by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.
Those who sign up for Hyper-Reach will receive emergency alerts from the sheriff’s office, as...
Jackson County’s FFA students went to the 98th-annual Kansas FFA Convention, held May 27 through 29 on the Kansas State University campus in Manhattan, and some came home with state-level FFA honors, it was reported.
Recent Royal Valley graduate Addilyn Lefferd earned first place in Nursery...
