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In the photo above, Jackson Heights students Mason Hare (at left) and Jennifer Mellies (at right) arrived to the school’s prom last Saturday evening on dirt bikes and walked the red carpet as family and friends looked on.
The Holton Recorder is hosting its 17th annual Mother’s Day Youth Essay Contest. The theme of the essay contest is “Why My Mother Is A Superhero.” Essays are due Friday, May 3.
The top winning essay in each of the three age divisions will be published in the Wednesday, May 8, edition of The Holton...
A groundbreaking ceremony was held last Friday for a new 40,000-square foot manufacturing and warehouse facility, Gaia Prairie Band, east of U.S. Highway 75 on 150th Road.
The new business, which will initially employ about 20 people when it opens early next year, will produce 100 percent...
Dear editor,
I traveled 12 hours to Austin, Texas, for the solar eclipse. Crossing the border into Texas, I stopped at the state visitor center. They provided me with maps and two free eclipse glasses in a sack of information. The traffic through Fort Worth was dense and slow.
I brought three...
A Memorial Day tradition in Jackson County — a joint tour of Jackson County’s cemeteries by two veterans’ organizations in Holton — is being cut back this year due to declining membership in both groups, according to Pat Fontaine, commanding officer of Mary L. Bair American Legion Post 44 in Holton...
The boat ramps at Banner Creek Reservoir are being extended 20 feet due to low water levels, it has been reported.
During the Jackson County Commission meeting on Monday, Kurt Zibell, Banner Creek Reservoir director, presented a bid of $16,500 from Aller’s LLC of Hiawatha to complete the work and a...
Brandy Stephenson of Holton recently fulfilled a lifelong dream when she appeared as a contestant on “Wheel Of Fortune.”
Stephenson, 38, was a contestant on the show in February, and the episode that includes her will air at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, April 19 on WIBW-TV, channel 13 in Topeka.
A 2004...
Concerns over a growing number of kindergarten students expected in the Jackson Heights school district for the 2024-25 school year, as well as a State of Kansas-mandated policy for accepting out-of-district students, had members of the Jackson Heights USD 335 Board of Education briefly talking...
Concerns over a growing number of kindergarten students expected in the Jackson Heights school district for the 2024-25 school year, as well as a State of Kansas-mandated policy for accepting out-of-district students, had members of the Jackson Heights USD 335 Board of Education briefly talking...
Six-year-old Charlie Robertson (at right) of Holton checked out her haul of Easter eggs, with some help from her mother, Regina Robertson, during the recent hunt hosted by the Jackson County 4-H Ambassadors at the Northeast Kansas Heritage Complex.
