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A total of 75 area students submitted essays for The Holton Recorder’s 19th annual Mother’s Day youth essay contest. This year’s theme was “Why My Mother Is The Best.”
Students at Jackson Heights, Holton and Royal Valley schools submitted essays, and one essay from each school district was selected...
Construction on the new building additions at Jackson Heights’ two school buildings is projected to begin on June 1, according to Jackson Heights USD 335 Superintendent Jim Howard.
The USD 335 Board of Education noted the projected start date during a special board meeting held April 21 with...
Members of the Holton Planning Commission recently fine-tuned a proposed change in Holton’s zoning regulations that would allow first-floor residential spaces at the back of single-story buildings around Holton’s Town Square.
For business owners around the Square who are interested in modifying the...
On Tuesday morning, May 12, school-age children in Holton are invited to ride their bikes, skateboards or rollerblades — or just walk — to school as part of a statewide celebration of “the joys of active commuting while building a sense of community, safety and school spirit,” it has been reported...
The decision to close Doug Richert Chevrolet-Buick just south of Holton’s Town Square earlier this month wasn’t made by Richert or by Cable-Dahmer Automotive Group, which purchased the automotive inventory at the dealership that had for decades been known as Clark Chevrolet and is now selling that...
Three Royal Valley High School students will attend the FCCLA National Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. this summer after the trip request was approved during the board of education meeting on April 22.
Senior Kiley Rogers and sophomore Hanna Myers qualified to compete at the conference,...
There will be another new face in the principal’s office at Holton Elementary School next fall, as Jordan Yulich has been announced as the new assistant elementary principal at the school.
Yulich, who has served for 12 years in Shawnee Heights USD 450, where he currently serves as a fifth-grade...
The Holton/Jackson County Chamber of Commerce is scaling back its monthly “Second Saturday” activities, limiting this year’s events to the final four months of the year, the Holton City Commission noted on Monday.
During the commission’s regular meeting that evening, commissioners approved a...
Brooke Slipke, a member of the North Jackson Jets 4-H Club, recently took her passion for agriculture and rural advocacy to the national stage, representing Kansas at the National 4-H Conference in Washington, D.C., April 9-15.
Slipke was selected as one of four Kansas delegates to attend the...
The Holton Recorder and its staff have won 11 Kansas Press Association contest honors this year in the Division V circulation category, it has been reported.
Ali Holcomb won first place in Feature Package for her article and photo about Gerald Copeland’s newest carved sculpture on the west side of...
