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Owners of 80 Jackson County properties, who are delinquent on their taxes, may be subject to a tax sale being planned for this year, it was reported. Jackson County Treasurer Linda Gerhardt and the Jackson County Commissioners are in the preliminary stages of conducting a tax sale after it was...
Connecting a road that runs behind Holton Community Hospital to the road that runs through the Holton Industrial Park has been announced as the focus of a special Holton City Commission meeting set for this afternoon (Wednesday), it was reported. During the commission’s regular meeting on Monday,...
Area residents who live in the unincorporated areas of Jackson County are reminded that they have until Friday, April 1, to register or re-register their dog with the county if it’s a pit bull or a hybrid of that breed.  The Jackson County Commissioners approved a resolution last year that requires...
The Jackson County Commission has agreed to have the county support KANZA Mental Health & Guidance Center as its administrators and board seek $400,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds to renovate the recently purchased Moser building in Holton. At a recent Jackson County Commission...
Scott Foster (left), owner of Foster Ford in Holton, stood in the showroom of the Ford dealership he has owned and operated for more than three decades while Leroy Krogmann, service manager at Foster Ford, pulled back a sheet of plastic to reveal some of the renovation work that has been going on at the dealership. The renovation work is being done as part of Ford Motor Company’s Trustmark program. (Photo by Brian Sanders)
In the three decades since Scott Foster’s family purchased the fa­cility that houses Holton’s Foster Ford dealership, not much about the building’s interior or exterior has changed. “We’ve got some lovely 1985 paneling in here,” Foster joked. But in recent months, the Ford dealership’s customers...
  The search for a new superintendent at Royal Valley USD 337 continues, as board of education members recently discussed the results from several meetings with district staff, students and patrons regarding the district leadership opening. Randy Weseman, Kansas Association of School Boards...
  This coming Saturday, March 26, Jackson County-area children will have more than one opportunity to participate in the grand holiday tradition of the Easter egg hunt. The annual Holton/Jackson County Easter Egg Hunt will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, starting on the Jackson County Courthouse lawn...
  A variety of projects were completed at Banner Creek Reservoir in 2015 to help boost revenue, according to an annual report presented to the Jackson County Commissioners recently. John Kennedy, Banner Creek Reservoir director, included a list of completed projects, programs and revenues in the...
  A Holton man facing second-de­gree murder charges stemming from the October death of his wife will face a preliminary hearing in April, it was reported in Jackson County District Court. The hearing for George E. Fleshman Jr., 66, arrested March 8 at his home in connection with the death of his...
A fire destroyed a home on 98th Road in the southern part of Jackson County on Wednesday, March 16. No one was in the home during the incident, it was reported. Fire departments from Hoyt, Mayetta, Soldier Township and the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation responded to the scene. (Photo courtesy of the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office)
  A home at 17072 98th Rd. in southern Jackson County is being considered a “complete loss” after it was damaged in a fire Wednesday, March 16, according to Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse. The home was not occupied when the fire started. Shortly before noon that day, the sheriff’s office received...

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