News
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...
A total of 46 military veterans, representing various branches and armed conflicts, will be joined by 46 student guardians from Jackson Heights and Holton high schools this Friday and Saturday, June 7 and 8, as they travel to Washington, D.C. to participate in the schools’ first joint Jackson...
4-Hers, start your engines…
Preparations are under way for the 99th-annual Jackson County Fair, the bulk of which will be held from Monday, July 15 through Thursday, July 18 at the Northeast Kansas Heritage Complex south of Holton with a wide variety of 4-H and open class exhibits, a carnival, a...
Facility improvements and needs at Royal Valley were discussed during a special community meeting at the high school last Wednesday evening.
A variety of concerns were addressed during the meeting, which was facilitated by representatives from HTK Architects of Topeka, that included larger parking...
Stacey Smith was researching the history of Hoyt while gearing up for the opening of a new bar and grill in Hoyt — and the name of that bar and grill just came to her “out of the blue.”
“I discovered that the town was founded by haymakers and cattlemen,” Smith said. “The name just stuck out to me....
