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With the nation’s two major political parties still deciding who will take center stage on the November general election ballot, Kansas Republicans and Democrats are looking ahead to presidential caucuses to be held this Saturday, it was reported.
Jackson County residents registered as...
The state budget and Gov. Sam Brownback’s tax plan were just some of the hot topics discussed Saturday morning during the Holton/Jackson County Chamber of Commerce’s legislative forum.
A total of 43 people attended the hour-long legislative forum at the Hutchins Building on Saturday that included...
It will take a batter with a lot more power and the ability to hit a baseball or softball with a much higher trajectory to hit a home run at Holton’s Optimist Field now.
The Optimist Field ballfield at Chandler Park has been transformed from what was considered a small ballfield into a much...
The Kansas Honors Program held its annual dinner and recognition of the top 10 percent of this year’s high school seniors in Jackson and Nemaha counties on Wednesday at First United Methodist Church.
Members of the Jackson Heights High School Grand State championship team from 1976 were honored Friday during the Cobra boys' basketball game. Coaches and team members include (from left) head coach Ken Thomas, assistant coach Dave Henry, Brenda Holaday, Sheri Oxandale Dibbern, Connie Brown...
Editor’s note: This is the seventh in a series of stories about past and present Jackson County residents who earned the Purple Heart Medal, which is awarded to military personnel wounded or killed in the line of duty.
The names of those profiled in these stories will be placed on a special...
A longtime barbershop location on the south side of the Holton Square has reopened under new management.
Rob Snavely has opened Rob’s Chop Shop at 123 W. Fourth St., which was the location of Bob Morgan’s Barbershop for more than 50 years.
Snavely began working full-time from the shop on Feb. 1...
In addition to the “extraordinarily serious” criminal charges against him, a Holton resident and attorneys involved in his Jackson County District Court case also face getting over the “language barrier” on the way to resolving his case.
Pedro Juarez-Alonzo, 30, who has been charged with attempted...
A July trial date has been set for a Horton resident charged with aggravated battery in connection with a November stabbing incident in Holton.
Austin Whitebird, 22, will face a three-day trial beginning Tuesday, July 5 in district court, Judge Norbert Marek said following an arraignment hearing on...
Holton voters will head to the polls on Tuesday for a primary election to narrow down the field of candidates that have filed for the position two seat on the Holton City Commission.
A total of four Holton residents, Christina Murphy, Christina Cobler, Mike Meerpohl and Rodney Miller, have all...
