Nine Jackson County wrestlers are making their final preparations before heading to Salina for the 4A state wrestling tournament this coming weekend.
Representing Royal Valley will be junior Noah Hart (145 lbs.) and sophomore Jacob Box (182 lbs.), while Holton will have seven wrestlers competing at...
Retired Holton teacher Orin Marshall is seeking election to position two on the Holton USD 336 Board of Education in the April election.
Marshall is running unopposed. Denise Sweet currently holds the position on the board and is not seeking re-election.
“I’d like to be considered for the board...
School lunches at Holton High School have changed a lot in the past 60 years - a fact Sen. Pat Roberts can personally attest to after dining with students at the cafeteria Thursday.
“We didn’t have the mandates telling us what we could and could not eat,” Roberts told members of the HHS Student...
Attracting residential growth to Holton could be an easier task for Holton city officials with a few slight modifications to the city’s subdivision and zoning regulations, Holton City Attorney Dennis White told the Holton City Commission.
During the commission’s meeting on Tuesday — held a day...
About 31 percent of the county’s annual budget to purchase gravel for county roads has already been spent in six weeks.
The budget for rocking county roads is depleting quickly this year, and Jackson County Commissioners and road and bridge administrators are hoping to find a better solution for...
Royal Valley has received a $40,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to help purchase two new school buses for the district.
USD 337 is one of six districts in the state, and one of 76 in the nation, that will use the funds to upgrade its bus fleet to new, cleaner buses through the...
The National Weather Service of Topeka has issued a winter weather advisory for Jackson County from 6 p.m. this evening until 9 a.m. Saturday.
According to the NWS, by this evening, precipitation will transition from rain to a mix of freezing rain and sleet. Sleet and snow are expected through the...
Seven-year-old Cash Robinson, a first-year member of the Lucky Stars 4-H club, presented a show-and-tell at Jackson County 4-H Day about his horse, Roper. Robinson said he enjoys riding and helping take care of cattle on the family farm with Roper, adding that he has had the horse “kind of a long...
The county’s policy on dangerous dogs has been updated, and the Jackson County Commissioners are now requiring that certain breeds owned by county residents be registered yearly with the sheriff’s department.
The commissioners made a motion to approve resolution 2015-5 Tuesday regarding dangerous...
There’s plenty of street brick available for the City of Holton’s brick street restoration program, Holton Street Superintendent Rex Cameron informed the Holton City Commission, and this year, brick street restoration work will continue on Wisconsin Avenue.
During the city commission’s regular...