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Members of the Northeast Kansas Enterprise Facilitation recently presented an annual report and a budget request to the Jackson County Commissioners.
Since 2003, the county has financially backed the NEKEF, which is a non-profit organization that supports new and current business owners by...
Working in one school district for 40 years, Superintendent John Rundle has helped facilitate countless facility upgrades, curriculum changes and a one-to-one technology initiative.
But it’s not one upgrade or building project that Rundle cites as his biggest achievement at RV.
“It’s not about...
“Be a voice, not an echo.”
The Jackson Heights High School graduating Class of 2016 chose that Albert Einstein quotation as its class motto. On Sunday, USD 335 Superintendent and Elementary Principal Adrianne Walsh reminded class members’ family and friends gathered for high school commencement...
Royal Valley High School’s commencement ceremony Sunday afternoon was a mixture of celebration and anticipation among the 54 graduating seniors.
“Whether we are ready or not, our lives are about to change dramatically,” RVHS valedictorian Kate Hanson said in her farewell address to her classmates...
Concerns about employee salaries, park security and Holton’s municipal swimming pool surfaced Monday in the first round of requests for the City of Holton’s 2017 budget.
During Monday’s Holton City Commission meeting, commissioners heard initial requests for next year’s budget from the city’s...
Finding a new city manager to take over Bret Bauer’s position after Bauer leaves next month will be the job of the Holton City Commission and city staff, commissioners noted during their regular meeting on Monday.
Bauer said he and “city staff” would get to work designing an advertisement for a new...
A Holton man facing second-degree murder charges stemming from the October death of his wife is free on bond after that bond was reduced during a Friday morning hearing in Jackson County District Court.
District Court Judge Norbert Marek reduced the $200,000 bond against George E. Fleshman Jr., 66...
The town of Netawaka will commemorate its 150th year with a weekend of celebration May 28 and 29.
Founded in 1866 and located in northern Jackson County, Netawaka’s estimated population is 143.
Current and past residents are invited to come together to celebrate the town’s history with a variety...
For 22 years, Mark and Vickie Pruett have been a familiar fixture in Holton’s restaurant community, serving up burgers, chicken strips, sundaes and Blizzards as the owners of Holton’s Dairy Queen franchise.
Starting April 28, however, the Dairy Queen was taken over by Wayne and Tricia...
For 15 years, Amy Haussler of Holton worked as a school psychologist for the Holton Special Education Cooperative, most of that time under former long-term Director of Special Education Mark B. Wilson.
It was during Haussler’s second year with the co-op that she jokingly told Wilson that one of...
