News
HOLTON/JACKSON COUNTY-WIDE GARAGE SALES
Friday-Saturday, April 24-25, 2026
Download the pdf file of this form (located below this text) and print it out, then fill it out and bring it to our office at 109 W. Fourth St., Holton, KS with $13 to cover advertising costs. This will place your...
Business and building owners around Holton’s Town Square in attendance at a Monday, Dec. 22 meeting of the Holton Planning Commission said they would be in favor of changing the city’s zoning regulations to allow first-floor residential spaces at the back of buildings around the Square, both to...
For many years, Jackson County road and bridge crews have maintained an estimated 50 miles of roads on the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation reservation on behalf of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), and county commissioners are now seeking reimbursement for that work.
Since 2008, the county has...
In the fall of 1971 — two years after four northern Jackson County schools merged to form Jackson Heights High School — Nancy VanDonge was approached by district superintendent Robert Clark about coaching a new high school girls’ basketball team at the school.
“I knew it was important to start a...
Jackson Heights High School students got an early Christmas present before heading out for the holiday break on Friday, Dec. 19 — a screening of a 44-minute documentary on the Cobras’ 2025 football season, capturing the highs and the lows of the team’s 11-1 run this past fall.
The positive...
The Jackson County Commissioners recently agreed to hire a law firm to negotiate a higher per diem rate for housing U.S. Marshals Service prisoners in the county jail.
At a recent Jackson County Commission meeting, Undersheriff John Calhoon discussed entering into an agreement to renegotiate the...
The special countywide 0.4 percent retailers’ sales tax for road and bridge improvements will expire at the end of 2026, and the Jackson County Commissioners are proposing that the tax be renewed at a slightly higher rate of 0.5 percent, which is a 0.1 percent increase.
Before the sales tax can be...
Earlier this year, the Holton City Commission approved an updated dog and cat ordinance that would limit Holton residents to three dogs and three cats each, outside of permits for additional pets that were “grandfathered in” at the time of the ordinance’s approval.
Starting Thursday, Jan. 1, the...
A lower-than-expected interest rate on the $5 million general obligation bond that Jackson Heights will use to fund construction of a pair of building additions in the district proved to be good news for the USD 335 Board of Education during the board’s regular monthly meeting on Monday evening at...
Midwest Health, one of the region’s largest senior living providers, has completed the biggest acquisition in its nearly 50-year history, adding 15 assisted living communities across the state of Kansas, including Vintage Park in Holton, the company announced.
Midwest Health of Topeka is a family-...
