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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...
The new quarter-percent sales tax approved by voters to support Holton Community Hospital will go into effect next Wednesday, April 1, for all Jackson County businesses.
The county’s new tax rate will be 1.65 percent. The state sales tax rate is 6.5 percent.
The city of Holton levies an additional...
Property rights, tribal relations and alternative energy dominated discussions at a town hall meeting last Wednesday with the Jackson County Commission.
The event drew more than 250 people to Evangel Church in Holton where commissioners – Linda Gerhardt, Mark Pruett and Keith Kelly – answered...
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic six years ago, schools in Jackson County and across Kansas turned to “virtual learning” as a way to make sure their students received their classwork while schools were shuttered to prevent the spread of a potentially deadly virus.
After the first year of...
