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After failing to pass it in the primary election, the Jackson County Commissioners approved a motion on Monday to place the same .4 percent special retailers’ sales tax renewal question back on the ballot this fall.
On a 3-0 vote, the commissioners approved a resolution to ask voters again during...
WEEK 1 FOOTBALL PICKEM 2026
Sept. 4-6
1. Aeschliman Construction: Sabetha at Holton
2. Denison State Bank: Jackson Heights at ACCHS
3. Beverley Brown & Co.: Royal Valley at Jeff West
4. Bergsten Insurance: LIU at KU
5. Bumper To Bumper: Nicholls at KSU
6. Jayhawk TV & Appliances: Colorado...
The Holton Board of Education will hold two special meetings on Wednesday, Sept. 2, at the Holton High School library. The board will consider gym bleacher bids at 5 p.m., then meet with the district site council at 5:30 p.m. to continue planning middle school repairs and renovations, according to...
Nancy Kassebaum, a pioneering three-term female senator from Kansas who was one of the architects of bipartisan health care reform in the 1990s, has died.
Kassebaum, also known in her later years as Nancy Kassebaum Baker because of her marriage to former Sen. Howard Baker (R-Tenn.), was 94.
Her...
As the Jackson County Commission considers a 4.554-mill property tax increase to help replenish dwindling cash reserves and continue necessary county services, the commissioners are also looking at cutting funding to several local organizations, including Developmental Services of Jackson County.
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Additional sewer line point repair work in Holton has been approved by the Holton City Commission, which on Monday approved a change order to a work list for 2026 that included four sewer line point repairs and the installation of five manholes.
Commissioners approved a change order as submitted by...
Enrollment numbers at Royal Valley are up slightly as students returned last week for the start of a new school year.
At the Royal Valley B.O.E. meeting on Aug. 12, Superintendent Aaric Davis reported on the increase.
“We didn’t grow tremendously, but it is up,” Davis said. “It looks like we’re up...
The Aug. 18, 2008 edition of The Holton Recorder included:
* Colberg opens family practice
* Community garden thriving in its first year
* Plans put on hold for zoning a supply store near Hoyt
* Commissioners discuss Banner Lake improvements
* Pride of Hoyt Days set for Saturday
Forty years ago, in 1986, the southern Jackson County community of Hoyt celebrated the town’s centennial with a festival and a fund-raiser for construction of a new community building.
The festival was such a hit that the next year, Hoyt residents started a new, annual event known as Pride of...
More than 500 meals were served last Friday outside on the east side of the Jackson County Courthouse during GNBank’s annual community appreciation dinner that also coincided with “Cruise Night.”
