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The 76th annual meeting of the Jackson County Conservation District will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21, at the First United Methodist Church in Holton, 1401 W. Fourth St., it has been reported.
Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. with the program set to begin at 7 p.m. Musical entertainment will...
Brandi (Brenner) Fritz remembers being a part of the pep club during her days as a Jackson Heights High School student — on Friday nights, regardless of the sport or where it was played, she said, the pep club was “the place to be.”
“Everyone cheered in it,” said Fritz, a 1996 JHHS alumna who now...
Royal Valley High School seniors Jackson King (at left) and Alyssa Schuetz (at right) were named king and queen of winter sports last Friday night during halftime of the boys varsity basketball game versus Hiawatha.
Construction work on the new two-story addition at Royal Valley High School has been completed just in time for the second semester, which began Wednesday, Jan. 3.
The yearlong construction project to add new classrooms for band/choir, art, agriculture and audio/visual students was given the final...
Tickets are now on sale for the Holton/Jackson County Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame dinner on Saturday, Feb. 3 — and for the first time, tickets for the dinner may be purchased online at the Chamber’s Web site.
That’s according to Chamber executive director Ashlee York, who noted that in...
Kansans are now paying less tax at the grocery store as the state tax rate on food dropped from four to two percent on Monday.
During the 2022 Legislative session, lawmakers passed the “Axe The Food Tax” bill, which phases out the state tax on food at the grocery store.
At the start of 2023, the...
In the photo above, Holton High School seniors Natalie Willcott (at left) and Braun Teter (at right) were named winter royalty queen and king during the HHS wrestling dual against Spring Hill.
Jill Tosh of Holton’s Quality Monuments describes herself as “very much a people person.”
“I love to listen to people,” said Tosh, who took over as office manager at Quality Monuments on Nov. 1. “I’ve always tended to be someone that anyone can just kind of unload upon, and when you’re dealing with...
Jackson County residents are reminded that their current burn permit expires at the start of the New Year.
County residents are required to obtain a new free burn permit for 2024 as the county’s current permits expire on Sunday.
Since 2015, county burn permits expire every two years on Dec. 31 of...
Gov. Laura Kelly was at Holton Community Hospital last Thursday to unveil her newest proposal to expand Medicaid in Kansas.
“Each year I’ve been in office, I have introduced a bill to expand Medicaid with support from both sides of the aisle. This year, we’re going a step further to meet...
