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It’s been six years since the Holton Lions Club was disbanded after 80 years of service due to declining membership, but a new Jackson County Lions Club is getting started to promote free vision screenings and better eyesight for children in the county.
The new county-wide Lions Club and vision...
Tickets for Holton Community Theatre’s upcoming production of “Steel Magnolias” are going fast, according to Shannon Wittmer, HCT director.
“Both dinner shows are sold out online. We have opened up some extra seating for both dinner shows, but patrons will need to email Kim Bear (kimbearphoto@...
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Oct. 4-6
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3. Beverley Brown Boutique: Pleasant Ridge at Jackson Heights
4. Bergsten Insurance: Sabetha at ACCHS
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Holton Community Hospital Foundation staff members recently visited and interviewed students in Emmy Tanking’s kindergarten class at Holton Elementary School. The students completed a mental health activity this month by answering the question, "What makes me happy?" The students colored their own...
The Copper Petals performed as part of the recent art walk. Band members shown above include (from left) Becca Webb, Shelly Will, Logan Heineken, Carter Will and Chris Heineken.
The Jackson County Commissioners will host a special meeting at 6 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 30, at the first floor meeting room at the Jackson County Courthouse to discuss the possibility of increasing the county sales tax by one percent, from 1.4 percent to 2.4 percent, it was reported. Members of the...
Plans to expand U.S. Highway 75 north from the Holton city limits to its intersection with Kansas Highway 20 in Brown County to four lanes remain in the Kansas Department of Transportation’s “development pipeline,” although no definite timeline remains for getting work started on expanding the...
Although “the sky isn’t falling,” as Holton Community Hospital CEO Carrie Lutz told members of the Holton City Commission and Jackson County Commission at their meetings on Monday, the hospital is facing some financial issues with Medicare reimbursement and pandemic-related problems that have...
A proposed moratorium on both commercial wind and commercial solar projects for two years by the county planning commission was struck down by Jackson County Commissioners at their meeting on Monday morning.
Members of the planning commission met last Thursday evening, Sept. 5, to discuss several...
After he graduated from Bern High School in 1974, Ben Bauman wasn’t sure what he wanted to do with his life.
But as a farm kid growing up in northeastern Kansas, Bauman remembers the family radio always being on at home in the morning, in the kitchen, while he was preparing to go to school — and...
