Holton News

A recent deployment of the National Guard 48th Brigade and other soldiers to Afghanistan has left a lot of local military families behind to carry on.

The Kansas Department of Transportation announced approved bids for state highway and construction maintenance projects across the state Wednesday.

Joey + Rory, the husband-wife duet of Rory Feek, left, and Joey Martin, will headline the Holton / Jackson County Chamber of Commerce July Jubilee, which runs from 4 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday at Banner Creek Reservoir west of Holton.

SALINA, Kansas - Soldiers and families of the Kansas National Guard a s 2nd Battalion, 130th Field Artillery will be honored with a steak feed cookout on Friday, July 3, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. The cookout is being sponsored by the All American Beef Battalion and will be held at the Salina Armory, 2910 Arnold Ave, Salina.

Many people found their homes in Kansas as a part of the Orphan Train program run by the Children's Aid Society and the New York Foundling Hospital from 1854 to 1929.

Deana K. Jones, a clinical social worker who works with Brie, a Labrador retriever, and Kareen King, a musician, will present a program Friday in Holton on a oeEnhancing Care Giving Through Creative Therapies.a The program is sponsored by the Jackson County Caring Community Council.

HOLTON a ' Homemade pie and homegrown music can both be found starting Thursday at the 16th annual Prairie Lake Pickina TM Party.

Given that General Motors has made some 450 million cars and trucks in the United States in the last 100 years, there are surely at least 450 million stories inspired by them: memorable trips and ill-timed breakdowns, romances kindled and crimes consummated, new models that turned to junk and oldies that truly became goodies.

Holton Glory Days Car Show a ' Today in Holton. Registration: 9 a.m. to noon. Show: Noon to 3 p.m. Information: 364-2824. Briggs Dodge Classic MOPAR Show a ' 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 30.

A concert will be held at the Fair Building, just off of Highway 75 in Holton, Kan., at 8 p.m. tonight.

Duane Clemons, although you may no know it, wears his heart on his sleeve. As a former marine, he's putting his passion into the pavement along with other members of Holton's Post 44 American Legion Riders.

A man will spend 80-months behind bars for a police chase that left a k-9 wounded.

A rear-end collision Wednesday morning on a busy trafficway in northwest Topeka sent four children to a local hospital, authorities said.

The annual Miami County Farm Tour will be from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 9 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 10.

" Kelly Gay says the sales at her 4-year-old business in downtown Mayetta are "not well." Gay owns Mayetta Outlet, a store that stocks tools, hardware, gift items, collectibles, American Indian art and clothing.

Remains found near the Tuttle Creek Spillway State Park have been identified as those of Michael Leo Harris, a Holton man who has been missing since Nov.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This week, Topeka Capital-Journal reporter Jan Biles will be traveling US-75 highway from the Nebraska border to the Oklahoma state line to talk to people about the economy and the impact the recession has - or hasn't - had on them.

" Alma Seitz, of Beatrice, Neb., lost half of her savings when the stock market took a dive the last year or so, but that hasn't stopped her from traveling to northeast Kansas two to four times a month to gamble at its casinos.

There is an almost 900-student difference between Holton High School and Shawnee Heights High School.

Several people were injured in separate traffic accidents on Friday that temporarily closed two sections of US-75 highway in Jackson and Shawnee County.