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Members of the Holton Planning Commission recently fine-tuned a proposed change in Holton’s zoning regulations that would allow first-floor residential spaces at the back of single-story buildings around Holton’s Town Square.
For business owners around the Square who are interested in modifying the...
On Tuesday morning, May 12, school-age children in Holton are invited to ride their bikes, skateboards or rollerblades — or just walk — to school as part of a statewide celebration of “the joys of active commuting while building a sense of community, safety and school spirit,” it has been reported...
The decision to close Doug Richert Chevrolet-Buick just south of Holton’s Town Square earlier this month wasn’t made by Richert or by Cable-Dahmer Automotive Group, which purchased the automotive inventory at the dealership that had for decades been known as Clark Chevrolet and is now selling that...
Three Royal Valley High School students will attend the FCCLA National Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. this summer after the trip request was approved during the board of education meeting on April 22.
Senior Kiley Rogers and sophomore Hanna Myers qualified to compete at the conference,...
There will be another new face in the principal’s office at Holton Elementary School next fall, as Jordan Yulich has been announced as the new assistant elementary principal at the school.
Yulich, who has served for 12 years in Shawnee Heights USD 450, where he currently serves as a fifth-grade...
The Holton/Jackson County Chamber of Commerce is scaling back its monthly “Second Saturday” activities, limiting this year’s events to the final four months of the year, the Holton City Commission noted on Monday.
During the commission’s regular meeting that evening, commissioners approved a...
Brooke Slipke, a member of the North Jackson Jets 4-H Club, recently took her passion for agriculture and rural advocacy to the national stage, representing Kansas at the National 4-H Conference in Washington, D.C., April 9-15.
Slipke was selected as one of four Kansas delegates to attend the...
The Holton Recorder and its staff have won 11 Kansas Press Association contest honors this year in the Division V circulation category, it has been reported.
Ali Holcomb won first place in Feature Package for her article and photo about Gerald Copeland’s newest carved sculpture on the west side of...
A proposed two-year moratorium on commercial solar projects in Jackson County failed on a 4-4 vote during the Jackson County Planning Commission meeting last Thursday evening.
During the meeting, which drew about 40 people to the Jackson County Courthouse, 15 minutes of comments from both...
With the departure of Jeremy Truelove, principal at Holton High School, at the end of this school term, USD 336 will have new principals at two of its three attendance centers next year. Truelove has served the district three years and had been given a one-year extension on his contract with the...
