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Democrat Bill Elmer, 67, of Hoyt is seeking re-election to the third district seat on the Jackson County Commission in the general election.
Elmer is running against John Coleman and Melvin Bailey. The third district is in the southern part of the county and includes Adrian, Douglas, Lincoln and...
Rural Denison resident John Coleman, 50, is seeking election to the third district seat on the Jackson County Commission.
Coleman is not affiliated with a political party and will face incumbent Democrat Bill Elmer and Republican Melvin Bailey on the Nov. 8 general election ballot.
Coleman was...
Republican Melvin Bailey, 51, of Mayetta is running for the third district seat on the Jackson County Commission in the upcoming general election.
Also on the ballot are incumbent Democrat Bill Elmer and John Coleman, who is not affiliated with any political party.
Bailey has lived in Jackson...
With the approach of October comes the approach of “flu season,” and the advice of many medical professionals across the country regarding the influenza vaccine can be summarized in three words.
“Get it now,” Jackson County Health Nurse Angie Reith said of this year’s vaccine for influenza,...
Heartland Meat Market recently opened at a location just off the south side of the Holton Square in hopes of connecting local meat producers directly to area customers.
Located at 321 Pennsylvania Ave. just south of Kellerman’s Real Estate, across the street from the post office, the business is...
Holton Community Hospital was honored recently at the National Rural Health Association’s conference as one of the 2016 Top 20 Critical Access Hospitals in the country, it was reported.
The Best Practice Designation award, as determined by iVantage Analytics, was given for success in achieving high...
It’s been a year now since Jackson County resident Joan Rebar went missing, and members of a special task force investigating her disappearance still have no answers as to what happened to the 71-year-old woman after she left the VFW Post in Meriden late one evening in September 2015.
Jackson...
Three eighth-grade students at Royal Valley Middle School have won the Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes' 2016 Discovery Award for a documentary they created that honors Emma Darling Cushman, an American nurse who saved thousands of Armenian children during the Armenian genocide, it has been...
A two-year prison sentence for an Ozawkie man convicted in connection with an alleged shooting incident in Holton last fall has been delayed so that the man may finish his current semester of college.
Jackson County District Court Judge Norbert Marek noted the efforts of Joshua J. Myers, 24, to...
Tuesday, Oct. 18, is the deadline to register to vote in Kansas for the Nov. 8 general election, it has been reported.
To be eligible to vote, a Jackson County resident must be 18 years of age before Election Day. Residents can register at the Jackson County Clerk’s Office, which is located on...
