The Jackson Heights USD 335 Board of Education on Monday evening continued to discuss a plan to build a new classroom addition that would link the district’s elementary and high school buildings, but tabled action on setting that plan into motion after some board members expressed concerns that a...
Here are The Holton Recorder Football Pick’Em Contest entries for the week ending Friday, Sept. 20:
1. Holton at Royal Valley
2. Jackson Heights at Horton
3. ACCHS at Valley Falls
4. KSU at BYU
5. KU at West Virginia
6. Marshall at Ohio State
7. Arizona State at Texas Tech
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When administrators at Hickman Mills High School in Kansas City, Mo. were looking for someone to coach the first season of girls basketball at the school in the fall of 1975, only one hand went up.
That hand belonged to Jackson County native Clyde Cozad, who went on to lead the team to three state...
Holton Community Hospital and other local healthcare providers are working together over the next few months to update Jackson County’s 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA), it has been reported.
Local healthcare leaders are seeking input from community members regarding the healthcare...
This Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 14 and 15, residents of Delia in southwestern Jackson County invite everyone in the area to join in the celebration of their community at the annual Delia Days event, to be held on the former Delia Grade School grounds.
This year’s event will include a community...
Here are The Holton Recorder Football Pick’Em Contest entries for the week ending Friday, Sept. 13:
1. Holton at Riley County
2. Royal Valley at Jefferson West
3. Maur Hill at Jackson Heights
4. Riverside at ACCHS
5. Arizona at KSU
6. UNLV at KU
7. Oregon at Oregon State
8. Georgia at Kentucky
9...
Generating more economic development and increasing the county’s retail sales tax were just two of several suggestions made by members of the public last Thursday evening to reduce property taxes at the county level.
About 100 people, including sheriff’s office personnel and other county employees...
The proposed new budget for Holton USD 336 includes a .76 mill levy increase over last year’s budget and a $4,341,280 assessed valuation increase. With the new budget, the district expects to collect $132,352 more in local taxes than it did last year.
Public hearings on exceeding the revenue...
Public and private school districts across the country are taking steps to minimize or ban the use of cell phones during the school day, and Jackson County’s school districts are no exception, keeping up with the Kansas State Board of Education’s plan to establish a task force on policy...
Each of the three school districts in Jackson County are welcoming out-of-district students, many of them coming from districts within the county, thanks to a “school choice” law passed by Kansas lawmakers last year.
That includes more than 95 students who previously attended Holton schools, who...