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Plans to amend Holton’s neighborhood office zoning regulations to include residential living space were not intended to turn Holton into a city with too much rental housing, the Holton Planning Commission noted during their regular meeting on Monday.
While reviewing an application from Homestead...
A Mayetta resident accused of the November stabbing death of a Mayetta woman will enter a plea on that and five other charges in March after Jackson County District Court Judge Norbert Marek bound him over for trial.
During a preliminary hearing held Monday for Wilson R. Noriega, 49, Marek said...
Ideas for Holton city projects to be paid for with the city’s capital improvement and equipment reserve funds — such as replacing the city’s street sweeper, maintaining tornado sirens and the extension of a road near Holton Community Hospital to the city’s industrial park — were discussed on...
The administrative offices for the road and bridge department will also be moving to the new road and bridge shop located just north of Holton.
At a recent Jackson County Commission meeting, the commissioners agreed to move the offices to the new building at 24569 U.S. Highway 75 in order to...
Want to help Kansas Special Olympics? Go jump in a lake.
More specifically, go jump in Banner Creek Reservoir at 1 p.m. this Saturday for the Polar Plunge event.
There is still time to become a “Below Zero Hero” and raise funds for area Special Olympic athletes.
The plunge is being organized...
Editor’s note: This is the sixth 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 monument...
A Netawaka resident is seeking to withdraw a plea entered last week in Jackson County District Court on a child sex charge due to “ineffective counsel,” according to a letter filed in court that also requested his attorney’s withdrawal.
Scott J. Buchheit, 36, who entered a no contest plea to a...
Owners of three structures deemed “unsafe and dangerous” in December by the Holton City Commission have been given deadlines for demolishing those structures and clearing their properties — and owners of two of those properties on Tuesday pledged to meet those deadlines.
During a series of public...
Several renovations have been completed at Holton Community Hospital recently, and an open house is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday to let local residents get a closer look at the finished product.
The open house will also include a “meet and greet” with the hospital’s new physician...
