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A Holton High School Class of 1978 alum who went on to win Grammy Awards for his work in jazz music has been named this year’s HHS Alumnus of the Year, it has been reported.
Jim Seeley, a trumpet and flugelhorn player who’s also a composer-arranger and educator, will be honored during the HHS...
On Sunday, April 26, the congregation at Trinity Lutheran Church in Holton will hold a centennial celebration for the church, which began as a spin-off congregation from a Netawaka church and grew from there.
Church spokesperson Coltara Segenhagen said the centennial celebration is being held a...
Gov. Laura Kelly announced on Monday, April 6, that she signed House Bill 2537, known as Caleb’s Law, which expands and strengthens Kansas law to better combat sexual extortion and protect victims. The legislation is named after Caleb Moore, a 14-year-old from El Dorado, who died by suicide after...
Concerns about staff reductions and a new virtual learning program in the Holton school district were addressed during a districtwide staff meeting earlier this month.
In January, the district announced that about six teaching positions would be eliminated at Holton Elementary School for the 2026-...
Nearly one in five storefronts on Holton’s Town Square are presently empty, according to an independent study of the Square by a Holton banker.
Matt Taylor, senior vice president of Denison State Bank in Holton, said he conducts a semi-annual, informal survey of businesses and occupants around the...
Spring and summer maintenance projects and a recommended math curriculum adoption were the main topics discussed during the Royal Valley Board of Education meeting last Wednesday evening.
Noah Slay, director of curriculum and instruction, presented a new math curriculum being recommended for...
“A place like this does not exist anywhere else in the country, under the circumstances.”
That’s how Scott Steffes describes the uniqueness that the Netawaka Family Fitness Center provides in a northern Jackson County community of less than 150 — a full-service, 30,000-square-foot fitness center...
Behind the weathered exterior of a 148-year-old Victorian-style home on Wisconsin Avenue in Holton, stripped to its studs and marked by time, a new chapter is taking shape – one being rebuilt board by board.
“When I was little, I always dreamed of a big Victorian, like in ‘Scooby Doo’ on TV with...
The signing of a “bell-to-bell” cell phone ban at Kansas schools into law that will take effect in the next school year sparked mixed reactions from Jackson County school administrators who say that while eliminating the distractions that cell phones and other devices provide is a good thing, it’s...
Easter is Sunday and several Easter egg hunts will be held this weekend in Jackson County. Local hunts include:
* 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 4, at Hoyt City Park – This hunt is being hosted by the Hoyt Livewires 4-H Club and is for children in fourth grade and younger.
* 10 a.m. on Saturday, April...
