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Today is Veterans Day, and this morning started with the raising of a new flag over the Jackson County Courtyard by area veterans. Don Askren (center), representing VFW Riders Post 1367, hoisted the new flag, along with the Kansas flag, while about 20 veterans and others looked on. Other Veterans...
Royal Valley USD 337 will not be moving forward with the development of a random student drug testing policy at this time.
After a 45-minute discussion on the topic Monday evening, Royal Valley Board of Education members voted 5-2 against having administrators begin drafting a policy that would...
While there are plenty of cosmetic changes happening in USD 336, the Holton school board took time at Monday’s meeting to focus on some internal changes currently in effect or to be put in effect in the future, like the establishment of a community pre-kindergarten program in the district.
The...
It’s time to pull out the Christmas lights and decorations as the annual Parade of Lights is set for 6 p.m. Saturday in downtown Holton.
Cash prizes of $50 apiece will be given to the top religious float, business float and club/organization float.
Law enforcement, city and county departments,...
This past spring, students at Jackson Heights and all across the state took a new form of standardized test that Jackson Heights Superintendent and Elementary Principal Adrianne Walsh said was “more rigorous than past tests,” but on Monday, Walsh told the USD 335 Board of Education that so far, the...
When you mix the music of Cole Porter and a comic love triangle involving an evangelist-turned-lounge singer, a lovelorn stock broker and Public Enemy No. 13… anything goes.
This weekend, Holton High School’s drama department will present the Tony Award-winning comedy-musical “Anything Goes,” under...
Ten years ago, Dianna Wilson, then administrator of the Holton Area Chamber of Commerce, was getting ready for the Chamber’s first Hall of Fame banquet.
Today, as a retired administrator who spent 17 years putting together such events as the French Market, the Holton Home and Garden Show and the...
During the Vietnam War, it was rare to see two members of the same immediate family serving in the same unit while “in country.”
“There were a lot of brothers out there,” said Ernie Gerhardt of rural Netawaka. “Usually, if one brother got orders to go, the other one never got orders.”
But for 11...
Santa will be making his first appearance in Holton as part of this coming weekend’s Second Saturday event.
November’s Second Saturday will include an art exhibit and “suitcase sale,” the annual parade of lights, the lighting of the Christmas lights on the Square, a visit from Santa Claus and a...
A county fair judge turns up dead during a bake-off competition, and everyone has a motive in Royal Valley High School’s production of “Cooking Can Be Murder.”
A classic “whodunit” murder-mystery, “Cooking Can Be Murder” by Eddie McPherson features an arrogant judge, a hardnosed detective and a...
