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For many Jackson County parents, finding affordable and reliable daycare options for their younger children is no easy task — a matter that’s prompted a group of county residents to form the Jackson County Early Childhood Development Task Force.
The volunteer group that formed in late February, now...
The Jackson County Commissioners held a special meeting last Thursday with representatives from Hartwell Capitol Consulting and members of U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall’s staff to discuss the need to expand U.S Highway 75 north of Holton to four lanes.
The commissioners and those in attendance also...
Although the City of Holton’s budget for fiscal year 2024 will include a reduction in the overall ad valorem tax levy, that budget will still exceed the assigned “revenue neutral rate” designed to keep the amount of taxes collected the same as the previous year, the Holton City Commission learned...
School officials at Jackson Heights and two other area districts are teaming up to look for workable solutions to the recent closure of Wetmore Attendance Center and how to transfer land into their respective districts to serve former students of the school, members of the USD 335 Board of...
Jackson County residents are eligible to receive a free voucher that will allow them to dump one pickup load of materials at the county landfill in September.
During the Jackson County commission meeting on Monday, the commissioners, in conjunction with the county’s noxious weed department, agreed...
The Northeast Kansas Heritage Complex is a busy place this week with the 98th-annual Jackson County Fair under way.
Jackson County 4-H program manager Cara Robinson noted a total of 2,257 4-H entries for this year’s fair, which will take place at the Heritage Complex from Monday, July 17...
The annual Jackson County 4-H Fair includes many traditions but none may be sweeter than the ice cream social hosted by members of the First Christian Church prior to the start of the fair parade.
For more than 50 years, homemade ice cream and other food has been served by church members at the...
Teachers in the Jackson Heights school district will receive base salary increases of $2,000 for the 2023-24 and the 2024-25 school years, according to a ratified teacher salary contract that was approved on Monday by the USD 335 Board of Education.
According to the approved contract, the base...
The Royal Valley Board of Education approved a total bid of $553,427 from Shirley Construction of Topeka to relocate the long jump and triple jump areas and resurface the entire track at RVHS.
The cost includes $306,943 to move the runways and landing pits for the triple jump and long jump events...
Several new policies regarding graduation requirements, lockers and drug offenses are being implemented at Royal Valley schools this year after the USD 337 Board of Education recently OK’d changes to student and staff handbooks.
During the board’s recent meeting, the building principals presented...
