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More than 50 area artists who create art in a variety of mediums will be displaying their work during this Saturday’s Jackson County Art Walk, it has been announced.
Held in downtown Holton from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, the art walk is organized by Jackson County Arts and features art, live...
A Circleville woman was killed and her husband injured early Friday in a motorcycle accident in west-central Iowa, according to the Iowa State Patrol.
Dejanee Smith, 23, was a passenger on the back of a 2006 Harley-Davidson motorcycle driven north on Interstate Highway 29 by her husband, Daniel...
U.S. Senator and Holton High School alumnus Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) has scheduled a “town hall meeting” for Thursday morning at Holton City Hall.
Roberts, currently in the middle of his fourth Senate term in Washington, D.C., will visit City Hall starting at 10 a.m. that day. The public is...
Starting this fall, students, sports fans and other visitors to the Jackson Heights school district will be greeted by a large limestone boulder reminding them that they are entering “Cobra Country.”
The limestone rock, measuring about five feet high and nine feet wide, was placed near the...
The Jackson County Delinquent Tax List for 2015 is published in this edition of The Holton Recorder and contains the names of Jackson County property owners with balances past due on real estate taxes due earlier this year. The list will be published in three consecutive Monday editions of The...
St. Marys businessman and mayor Francis Awerkamp won the Republican primary election Tuesday for the District 61st seat in the Kansas House of Representatives with 2,341 votes. Holton businessman and city commissioner Dan Brenner received 1,585 votes.
Awerkamp is one of many candidates seeking...
Property owners in Holton are looking at a proposed 3-mill increase in the city’s property tax levy to fund the city in 2017, an increase the Holton City Commission noted was less than one recommended earlier in the city’s annual financial audit.
During the commission’s regular meeting on Monday...
The Holton school board met for a special meeting here Monday evening.
The first part of the meeting was spent walking through the new Holton Elementary School, which will open soon, and visiting with the architect and construction managers for the project.
With about two weeks to go before the...
Despite a loss of more than $42,000 in local option budget funds due to Kansas Legislature-mandated changes in school funding, an increase of more than $1.25 million in the assessed valuation of the Jackson Heights school district is enabling the district to lower its property tax mill levy for...
The Jackson County Jail is now one of just a handful of county jails in the state compliant with the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) of 2003 in order to provide a safer environment for inmates.
PREA is a set of standards required in the federal prison system within the United States to prevent...
