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Holton’s search for a new city manager is over — and the Holton City Commission didn’t have to look too far to find one.
During Monday’s city commission meeting, commissioners voted to offer the city manager’s position to Assistant City Manager Kerwin McKee, a 20-year employee of the City of Holton...
The Hoyt City Council is proposing a 10-mill increase in the city’s budget for 2017.
City council members are proposing a total of 51.936 mills for the next year, which is a 10.108-mill increase from the 41.828 mills used to fund last year’s budget.
According to city council members, the reason...
Francis Awerkamp
St. Marys mayor and businessman Republican Francis Awerkamp, 35, is seeking election to the District 61st seat in the Kansas House of Representatives.
Awerkamp faces Republican Dan Brenner in the primary election, which has been set for Aug. 2. The district includes most of...
Holton native and businessman Dan Brenner, 59, is running for the District 61st seat of the Kansas House of Representatives.
Brenner, a Republican, with face Republican Francis Awerkamp of St. Marys in the Aug. 2 primary election.
The winner of the primary will face Democrat Lauren Van Wagoner of...
A former KANZA Mental Health & Guidance Center clinical director has chronicled her own personal journey of caring for her husband as he battled mental illness in her new self-published book “Hope, Courage & Triumph.”
Connie Bent of Hiawatha shares her memoir of the effect mental illness...
The date of the Jackson County Relay For Life is being pushed back as new volunteers step forward to help organize the event, it has been reported.
In June, Melissa Easterberg, community manager of development for the American Cancer Society Relay For Life, put out a call for more local...
A Netawaka resident convicted in February on a rape charge involving a minor will spend the next 17 years in prison after his motion to withdraw a plea that led to the conviction was denied in Jackson County District Court.
Scott Buchheit, 37, was sentenced to a total of 226 months, or 18 years...
A Holton man charged with second-degree murder in the October death of his wife will stand trial in January 2017 after pleading not guilty to the murder charge Jackson County District Court.
During an arraignment hearing on Friday morning, George E. Fleshman Jr., 66, stood silent while defense...
Just before receiving a 26-month prison sentence on two charges of firing a gun at an occupied vehicle on New Year’s Eve 2014, Cory Huff of Topeka turned to face a man who was in one of the cars he was reportedly firing upon that evening and offered an apology.
“That’s not good enough,” said the...
A group of volunteers have opened a public library at the community building in Denison.
A grand opening for the library was held on Friday, and volunteer Vickie Wold said that, to start, the new facility will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Wold, who serves...
