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SHOP LOCAL! n Education commissioner, KSBE Only 12 days member tour schools on Thursday By Ali Holcomb they have emphasized to him the left until Kansas Commissioner of importance of students learning Education Dr. Randy Watson how to code as part of their pub- Christmas! and Deena Horst, who repre- lic school education. sents District Six on the Kansas Slay told Watson and Horst State Board of Education, that elementary students are Easter Su toured Royal Valley schools on spending more time writing in py n Thursday morning to see what the classroom to build a great p d THIS WEEKEND a a kind of learning opportunities foundation for future learning. y H are available to Panther stu- Next, the tour moved to the ! The 29th dents. middle school where they were Watson and Horst began greeted by John Linn, middle May 25 annual their hour-long visit at USD school principal, and Morgan 337 with a brief tour of the el- Harvey, RVMS Student Council DON’T FORGET! ementary school in Hoyt with representative, who presented Pride of Superintendent Aaric Davis, Watson with a Panther t-shirt. RVES Principal Noah Slay and Watson and Horst visited Daylight Hoyt Days! Susan Pfrang, director of cur- teacher Lisa Stumpff’s seventh- riculum and instruction. grade language arts class where Saving Time: The group spent time in the students were presenting videos Makerspace classroom with they had created around poems Turn your clocks four fourth-grade students and they had selected. instructor Brenda Stithem. The In teacher Nathan McAlister’s forward an hour classroom provides hands-on history classroom, McAlister learning activities for students, outlined the many state and na- this weekend! such as Lego robots and bat- tional history projects groups of Kansas Commissioner of Education Dr. Randy Watson and Deena Horst, who represents District Six on the Kan- tery-powered motors, to work students were working on, and sas State Board of Education, visited the elementary and middle schools at Royal Valley on Friday morning. The on problem-solving skills. students invited Watson to the photo above was taken in Nate McAlister’s middle school history classroom and administrators shown standing, Watson said that as he meets school’s history fair this May. from left, include John Linn, RVMS principal; Susan Pfrang, director of curriculum and instruction; Aaric Davis, su- with representatives from com- perintendent, Horst, Watson and McAlister. Photo by Ali Holcomb panies like SUNDAYCerna and Trane, Continued to Page 3 See page 6. Purple Heart Profiles Sheriff appointed to immigration committee J a c k s o n Sheriff Morse will serve as a of America, and the current police education, police training Alley wounded in County Sher- member of the committee repre- methamphetamine and heroin and general law enforcement in- iff Tim Morse senting Midwestern sheriffs on epidemic brought to us by the formation resources. ( p i c t u r e d ) immigration policy. Currently, Mexican drug cartels, every NSA represents thousands of Battle of the Bulge has been ap- there are 3,085 sheriffs in the state has become a border state. sheriffs, deputies and other law pointed to United States of America. It is imperative for our country enforcement, public safety pro- Editor’s note: This is the the National Sheriff Morse said he is hon- to have sound immigration poli- fessionals and concerned citi- 47th in a series of stories Sheriffs’ As- ored to be considered for this cies, and it is just as important zens nationwide. about past and present Jack­ s o c i a t i o n appointment to the NSA. to enforce those policies regard- Through the years, NSA has son County residents who Immigration “There could not be a more less of party politics.” provided programs for sheriffs, earned the Purple Heart and Bor- important time than now to deal Chartered in 1940, the Na- their deputies, chiefs of police Medal, which is awarded to der Security with immigration concerns in tional Sheriffs’ Association is a and others in the field of criminal mili tary personnel wounded Committee our nation,” Morse said. “With professional association dedi- justice to perform their jobs in or killed in the line of duty. by NSA President Greg Cham- more than one million criminal cated to serving the office of The names of those pro­ pagne, it has been reported. illegal aliens walking the streets sheriff and its affiliates through Continued to Page 10 filed in these stories will be among those placed on a special monument for Purple Heart Medal recipients cur­ Commission approves skid loader purchase rently under construction in Holton’s Linscott Park. By Ali Holcomb White Star Machinery of Topeka mission Chairman Rob Ladner Schafer said the county needs ——— Jackson County has pur- at a cost of $48,158.47, which said he didn’t want to lease two a new stormwater pollution pre- One week before Christ- chased a new skid loader for the includes a $16,000 trade-in. skid loaders again since the to- vention plan for the landfill. mas 1944, U.S. Army Tech road and bridge department and In addition, the commission- tal hours on both machines this The last plan was completed Sgt. Leroy L. Alley of Hol- a contract to lease a second skid ers agreed to lease a new skid past year only added up to 500 in 2004. Schafer presented five ton was in France, fighting loader for one year has also been loader for the county for one hours. engineering bids to update the with Troop E, 32nd Cav alry approved. year from White Star at a cost of In other business, according plan. Reconnaissance Squad in the Together, the new purchases $11,392.66. to the approved minutes from The commissioners accepted total $59,551.13. This past year, the county Feb. 27, the commission: the low bid of $2,275 from King Battle of the Bulge when he TEC 4 Leroy Alley was wounded in the heat of The Jackson County Com- leased two skid loaders at a total * Heard a weekly report from Engineering and Associates of battle. in 1938 from Holton High mission agreed for the county to cost of $15,000 from White Star. Mixie Schafer, noxious weed Holton. Alley would remain hos- School. He was in ducted into purchase a new skid loader with That lease expires on March 16. and environmental services di- pitalized for nearly a year of the Army on Sept. 3, 1942, at grapple and tooth buckets from At a recent meeting, Com- rector. Continued to Page 5 recovering from wounds re- Fort Leavenworth. ceived in that famous battle. Three months after his He also received the Purple induction, Alley and his Heart for his bravery. high school sweetheart, Born Oct. 4, 1920, in Mildred Duffy, were mar- Holton, the youngest son of ried in Hugo, Okla. It was Charles M. and Dora E. Al- reported that they had sent ley, Leroy Leonard Alley home 17 telegrams to notify attended the old Wigwam grade school and graduated Continued to Page 5 Two criminal cases against murder suspect dismissed By Brian Sanders an alleged December 2015 inci- A year after entering not dent at the Jackson County De- guilty pleas in three different tention Center, in which Noriega cases against him, a Mayetta man was charged with trafficking in saw two of those cases dismissed contra band in a correctional in- on Friday in Jackson County stitution, criminal use of weap- District Court — but a trial on ons and crimi nal damage to a first-de gree murder charge re- property. The other dismissed mains on the court’s schedule. case involved marijuana and District Court Judge Nor- paraphernalia possession charg- bert Marek accepted Assistant es related to an alleged July Jackson County Attorney Brian 2015 inci dent. Yearout’s recommendation Marek said the dismissals to dismiss two criminal cases leave “the elephant in the room,” against Wilson R. Noriega, 51, a five-day jury trial set to begin after a January trial on one of Monday, May 15 on charges of the two cases resulted in a hung first-degree murder, possession jury. That particular case involved Continued to Page 5 A Kansas Highway Patrol officer inspected the aftermath of a truck crash on Thursday morning at the intersection of U.S.