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The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has acquired 3,161 acres in undivided interests on the reservation through the tribe’s land buy-back program, it has been reported.
Steve Duryea, tribal land planner, announced that, as of this month, Prairie Band had purchased those acres utilizing $4,966,327...
Jesse Lynch (at right) waited for a delivery of street bricks from Clint Lovell so that he could finish laying another row of bricks in the 600 block of Wisconsin Avenue on Tuesday afternoon. The two young men are part of the Holton Street Department's brick street repair program, which is in its...
A Topeka construction company on Monday was named the winning bidder for the Holton Industrial Park street improvement project by the Holton City Commission.
Commissioners approved a $910,810.20 bid from Kansas Heavy Construction of Topeka for removal of existing streets and construction of new...
As construction on the new Holton Elementary School continues and the 2015-16 school year approaches for students at Colorado Elementary School, the pick-up and drop-off routes are changing for students and parents alike as the 500 block of Colorado Avenue, in front of the school’s main entrance,...
Kansas Broadband has offered to sell a radio tower near Circleville to Jackson County that would reportedly improve emergency radio communications in the area.
For more than 20 years, the county has been leasing a portion of the tower, located near the intersection of Kansas Highway 79 and K Road,...
A special rescue training session was held for area firefighters last Saturday utilizing two Royal Valley school buses that were set to be salvaged. Hoyt firefighters, as well as one Holton firefighter, practiced extricating “victims” from a staged bus crash in Hoyt from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. In the...
Note: This is the 19th story in a series about doctors in our community.
Dr. Ronald Lee Cobb, 72, provides individual and group psychotherapy in Jackson County for residents recovering from substance abuse and other problems relating to that abuse.
Dr. Cobb is a native of Santa Barbara, Calif. and...
If Mike Peroo could give the City of Holton a grade based on its finances, that grade would be an “A.”
The Overland Park-based financial auditor, in presenting the Holton City Commission with its annual audit report during the commission’s Monday meeting, said he based that grade on the city’s...
Saturday’s Jackson County Fair horse show ended earlier than expected due to rain making the Northeast Kansas Heritage Complex horse arena too muddy, but some portions of the show were still able to get off without a hitch.
Jackson County 4-H Program Manager Cara Robinson noted that about half...
The Jackson County 4-H Fair parade has been scheduled for 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 29, which is half an hour earlier than previous years.
The reason for the time change is to allow 4-H members more time to head to the new fairgrounds after the parade for the start of the talent show and then...
