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@HoltonRecorder SALUTE THE HOLTON HOLTON, KANSAS Follow us Hometown of on twitter! Dixie Mannell Holton Recorder subscriber for 56 years. RECORDERServing the Jackson County Community for 147 years Volume 148, Issue 1 HOLTON, KANSAS • Monday, January 5, 2015 10 Pages $1.00 Second Saturday to feature jazz By Ali Holcomb festivals. She has appeared six The Holton Square will be times on American Public Media’s ‘jumpin’ this Saturday with a perfor- “A Prairie Home Companion.” mance by blues and jazz musician Her latest CD, “Gravity Loves Kelley Hunt. Hunt’s performance at You,” has won praises from many Complete Chiropractic Care Event critics. Center is part of the Holton/Jackson “Kelley Hunt delivers the goods County Chamber of Commerce’s with a voice that grafts passionate upcoming “Second Saturday” pro- blues to scorching soul – instantly motion, set for 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in endearing her to all within ear- downtown Holton. shot, as her band surrounds her in The theme for this month’s “Sec- a greasy funk that completed the ond Saturday” promotion is “The package and brings you back for January Jump” and will also include more. ‘Gravity Loves You’ contin- shopping specials at several down- ues this tasty tradition and ups the town stores, as well as a volunteer ante once again,” according to Eric fair for residents looking for ways Thom of “Blue Revue.” to serve their community in 2015. Businesses around the Holton Kansas City-based musician Kel- Square will be open from 4 p.m. to ley Hunt will cap off the monthly 7 p.m. that evening including JM promotion will a concert from 8 Sewing Center, Penny’s, Sarah’s p.m. to 10 p.m. at Complete Chi- Enchanted Cottage, Koger Variety, ropractic on the east side of the The Hotspot, The Gossip, Uptown Square. Tickets are $20 and will be Treasures, Bandita’s Western Barn, sold at the door. A cash bar will also Complete Chiropractic Care Center, be available. expressions, Quilting on the Square, The singer-songwriter has re- Heart to Home and Famertown An- leased five albums, with her sixth tiques, which is located on U.S. to be completed in May. She has Highway 75 next to Trails Café. performed more than 1,500 times in North America and at international Continued to Page 10 Jhett’s Pizza owner Luke Deeter spent part of this morning shoveling what was left of Saturday night’s snow from the sidewalk in front of his pizzeria on Holton’s Town Square. The weekend snowstorm brought little more than an inch of precipitation to the Holton area along with bitterly cold temperatures, the latter of which is expected to stick around for the rest of this week. See the weather Three new state laws forecast on Page 2 of today’s Holton Recorder for more information. Photo by Brian Sanders took effect on Jan. 1 Year In Review: September through December By Ali Holcomb to 20 cents. For a $100,000 house, Three new state laws took effect the fee would be $200. A number of hot topics made their Kansas Highway 16 were recently meeting on Aug. 9. Animal Hospital in Holton, to shel- Jan. 1, 2015 - one phases out the In 2016, the rate will be 15 cents way to The Holton Recorder’s front demolished, but through the ef- Two men charged in the recent ter stray dogs dropped off at the state’s mortgage registration fee, for each $100 owned, 10 cents in pages in the last third of the year. forts of the local Meadowlark death of a Topeka police officer, clinic by any Jackson County resi- another removes a special vehicle 2017, five cents in 2018 and then Some of those are featured below. Extension District office and area Ross Lane and Randy Ridens Jr., dent. County commissioners signed category for electric vehicles and eliminated altogether beginning in 4-H families, wood from the live- had lived in Holton and served time a contract late this month to pay the third standardizes business fil- 2019. n September stock barns has been refashioned in the Jackson County Jail this past Banner Creek Animal Hospital $600 ings. While the mortgage registration The proposed 2015 county bud- into memorial plaques that have year. Lane was charged with capital a month to house and adopt out stray HB 2643 fee decreases, the cost to file pa- get has been approved and includes been decorated with other parts of murder of a law enforcement officer dogs in the county. The state’s mortgage registration perwork with the register of deeds a.795-mill increase to 73.664 mills the barns, or with horseshoes or in the Sept. 7 shooting death of To- Two Jackson County postmasters fee is being phased out in the next office will increase. for 2015. Included in the proposed older fair ribbons. peka police officer Jason Harwood; have announced their upcoming re- five years, and, as of Jan. 1, a new Beginning this year, the cost for budget is a five percent raise for all An old gasoline service station in Ridens was charged with helping tirement. Elaine Stephenson, Soldier increased per-page fee is being recording the first page of a deed, county employees. The last raise Whiting is now listed on the Kansas Lane escape. Meanwhile, the Holton postmaster, said she would retire implemented for all filings with mortgage or other instruments of for full-time employees was ap- Register of Historic Places because City Commission approved a policy after 29 years with the U.S. Postal register of deeds offices across the writing will increase from $8 to proved in January 2014 and was $50 of its unique architectural style and sending police officers to nearby fu- Service at the end of this month. state. $12. Each additional page will cost a month. The year before, in 2013, the commercial impact it had in nerals of slain officers such as Har- Farrell Holthaus, Hoyt postmas- House Bill 2643 was signed by $8, which is up from $4 charged in the commissioners approved a $100 the small community located in the wood. ter, announced his retirement after Gov. Sam Brownback in 2014 to 2014. To record a town plat, a $23 raise per month for full-time em- northeast corner of Jackson County. Stray dogs in Jackson County will 32 years with the Postal Service at eliminate the state’s 89-year-old fee is being charged for each page, ployees, which was their first pay Members of the Kansas Historic have a new temporary home while about the same time as the Hoyt Post mortgage registration fee. up from $20 per page. Additional raise in four years. Sites Board of Review approved the they wait to be adopted. Jackson Office announced it was cutting its Previously, 26 cents for each fees are also increasing. The livestock barns at the old nomination of the service station, County has entered into an agree- customer service window hours. $100 owned on a mortgage was Jackson County Fairgrounds at the located at 204 Whiting St., for the ment with Dan Degenhardt, owner collected. In 2015, that fee reduces Continued to Page 10 intersection of U.S. Highway 75 and state historic registry during their and veterinarian at Banner Creek Continued to Page 8 School funding ruled “inadequate” A district court panel has ruled aid per pupil is $3,852. In 1992, and implementing education policy that Kansas isn’t spending enough when the base state aid per pupil sys- reforms is critical not only to getting money on its public schools to pro- tem was created, the state allocated more money into our classrooms but vide a suitable education for every school district’s $3,600 per pupil. also improving student achievement. child. In their 116-page ruling, the judges I will be working with legislative The ruling was made last Tuesday said that the state’s current financing leadership to address the best path by a three-member judicial panel of system for public education isn’t forward,” Brownback said. the Shawnee County District Court. “reasonably calculated.” The judges Kansas is currently facing a pre- The panel didn’t set a specific fig- were also critical of lawmakers for dicted $279 million budget shortfall ure for what is “adequate” but said shifting the school funding burden by July, with an additional $436 mil- the evidence suggests it should be from the state to the local level. lion shortfall to close by July 2016. at least $548 million more a year, or The judges ruled that, at the mini- In March, the Supreme Court unan- $4,654 per student in base aid — and mum, the state’s base state aid per imously ordered the state to allocate possibly much higher. pupil should be about $4,654. $130 million into school funding to The state is expected to appeal the Gov. Sam Brownback said he is fix an unconstitutional inequality of Shawnee County District Court pan- still “digesting the full implication” resources for poorer school districts el’s decision to the Kansas Supreme of the ruling. as part of the Gannon lawsuit. Court. “I continue to believe that restruc- In Kansas, the current base state turing the school funding formula Continued to Page 10 Christmas display damaged by shotgun By Brian Sanders more than 50 wood-crafted and lighted plays. Damage was estimated at be- The proprietors of a Christmas light displays that stretch for one-eighth of tween $200 and $500, according to the display near Larkinburg have expressed a mile, fell victim to an act of criminal report.