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New locally-owned grocery store to open in Holton

By Greg Bebermeyer

02/26/2018

(KNZA)--After months without a hometown grocery store, the Jackson County community of Holton will once again have a store to call their own.

Cecil K‘s Hometown Market is set to open its doors Wednesday morning, February 28th at 7:00 in the former Ron‘s IGA building along U.S. 75 Highway.

Two Holton High school alumni, Carly Whorton and her cousin, Chad Bontrager, are opening the store.

The pair leased the building, renovated the space and secured all the equipment and inventory for a full-service grocery store.

Ron's IGA closed at the end of March 2016 and the community's other locally-owned grocery store, Holton Country Mart closed, in early 2017.

Cecil K’s is named after Carly and Chad’s great grandfather, Cecil Kern. Cecil and his wife, Lottie, ran a grocery store in Iola, Kansas in the 1930s.

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