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Teachers in the Royal Valley district will receive a 6.3 percent salary increase in pay as part of new salary negotiations approved Monday night during the Royal Valley Board of Education meeting.
“Our school board has worked very hard to keep our school district’s base salary extremely competitive...
The glass orb scavenger hunt is back this summer and a second round of new orbs will be hidden throughout the county this Saturday.
A total of 124 glass orbs, about the size of an orange, will be hidden for this summer’s scavenger hunt, according to April Lemon of More Than Lemons and a member of...
While recent rains have brought relief to Kansas drought conditions, they are taking their toll on county roads.
During the Jackson County Commission meeting on Monday, Linda Jackson, road and bridge superintendent, reported that all road and bridge crew members have been pulled from their current...
Rain that fell on the area on Saturday may have hindered a smooth ride for Biking Across Kansas participants looking to cycle safely from Holton to Atchison, but it helped bolster the water levels at Banner Creek Reservoir, which is now at less than two feet from being full, according to Holton...
Tiffany Hazen of Ottawa said most of the riders on the 50th-annual Biking Across Kansas tour of the state that led cyclists through Soldier and into Holton on Friday may not have been prepared for that big hill on Kansas Highway 62 just before its intersection with Kansas Highway 16 south of...
The 4-H experience is a learning experience, and in the eight years that Brooke Slipke has been involved in raising dairy goats, she has learned a lot.
Slipke, a nine-year member of the North Jackson Jets 4-H club and the daughter of Alan and Phyllis Slipke of Netawaka, has built up a herd of 22...
(Editor's note: Photos from the Honor Flight may be viewed in our Photo Gallery.)
Daniel Amberg of Holton, a 91-year-old Navy veteran who served during the Korean War era, was looking forward to the Honor Flight this past weekend, enjoying the camaraderie of his fellow veterans, as well as the...
Moving the weight room at Jackson Heights High School to a new building could give the school two more classrooms to work with, as the Jackson Heights USD 335 Board of Education noted during its regular monthly meeting on Monday.
But before the board can approve construction of a new building for...
Rosa Thomas, owner of the Whiting Café, does not plan to reopen the business after it was heavily damaged in a fire early Friday morning, June 7.
“I’m taking it as God’s will,” Thomas said of the café, which would have been in business 40 years this August. “I’m glad nobody got hurt.”
Shortly after...
Growing up in Woodstock, Ill., Kayley Dvorak spent hours in her mother’s home goods store dreaming of the day she could open up a store of her own.
That dream was finally realized in May when Dvorak opened The Rustic Spur on the north side of the Holton Square at 108 W. Fifth St.
“My mom has a...
