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The Holton Recorder is hosting its 16th annual Mother’s Day Youth Essay Contest. The theme of the essay contest is “What My Mother Means To Me.” Essays are due Friday, May 5.
The top winning essay in each of the three age divisions will be published in the Wednesday, May 10, edition of The Holton...
Construction of a visitor’s center at Banner Creek Reservoir is moving forward after the Jackson County Commissioners approved a bid from Aeschliman Construction of Holton during their meeting on Monday.
Two bids for the project, which includes the construction of a 48-foot by 72-foot building,...
On a 7-0 vote, the Royal Valley Board of Education approved the purchase of 98.36 acres of land next to the elementary school in Hoyt during its meeting on Monday.
The board also approved the purchase of new playground equipment at the middle school and new scoreboards at the high school gym.
The...
More new team activities are being proposed at Jackson Heights High School, and on Monday, members of the USD 335 Board of Education heard a pair of proposals on “E-sports” and “outdoor skills” teams, but took no immediate action to approve either activity for the upcoming 2023-24 school year....
Longtime Mayetta City Clerk Grace Bowser is retiring this month after 28 years of service to the city.
A retirement celebration was held for Bowser last Wednesday prior to the start of the city council’s regular monthly meeting.
After seeing an ad in The Holton Recorder, Bowser applied for the...
Members of the Jackson Heights USD 335 and Prairie Hills USD 113 school boards held a special Wednesday meeting in Sabetha to open the conversation on how to handle the transfer of land between the two districts in light of the latter’s decision earlier this year to close Wetmore Attendance Center...
Ten years ago, Holton residents voted to approve a half-cent addition to the city’s municipal sales tax that would be used to fund infrastructure improvements and debt reduction in the city, and the addition passed by a three-to-one margin.
This June, city residents will go to the polls to decide...
The Royal Valley school district was the winning bidder on a 98-acre piece of land located next to the RV elementary school that sold Sunday during a real estate auction in Hoyt, it was reported.
Superintendent Aaric Davis said that the board of education will take formal action to purchase the...
Last May, Linda Clements, a 1982 graduate of Holton High School, was celebrating her class’ 40-year reunion at the HHS Alumni Banquet when she heard that there was talk that the annual banquet — the cornerstone event of the annual Glory Days weekend — “was going to go by the wayside.”
Clements...
