• The Jolly Market, set up at Jayhawk Linn High School, provides an additional location for shoppers to visit over the weekend.

  • Despite Saturday’s hot temperatures, people flock to the fairgrounds to shop the vendors there. Sunday’s cooler temperatures entice even more individuals to the craft fair.

  • One of the quilts on display at the quilt show over the weekend. The pieces, which date from c. 1912, show various businesses and individuals in Mound City at the time. The pieces were restored by Maribeth Kehl and was quilted in 2024 by Melissa Kehl.

  • A free concert at the Mound City amphitheater provides concert goers with entertainment Saturday night. Performers were Taylor Robinson, opening act, followed by Neon Harvest.

  • The Mound City Historical Park offers space for vendors over the weekend. The park’s buildings, open for self-guided tours, were also filled with quilts for the Mound City’s Historical Society’s quilt show.

  • The Prairie View High School band performs with show-stopping marching maneuvers as they make their way down Saturday’s parade route.

  • Though small in numbers, the Uniontown High School Marching Band plays loud and proud in Mound City Saturday.

  • Little maple leaves lead the Sugar Mound Arts and Crafts parade on Saturday, October 12.

  • Members of the American Legion Color Guard are followed by the Jayhawk Linn Junior and Senior High School Marching Band at the beginning of Saturday’s parade.

  • Kally Stroup, 2024 Linn County Fair Queen, sits tall and proud in the bandwagon at Saturday’s parade.

NEWS

Four-day school week discussed by USD 344 board

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Among many other agenda items, the USD 344 Board of Education spoke about researching a four-day school week Monday night. Superintendent Don Epps said things to look at with the shorter school week are staff retention, student learning and how families are affected. Epps said,... [More]

Three commissioner write-ins enter November race

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The Primary Election held August 6 left Ali Hamilton as the candidate with the most votes in the District 2 Commission race and Jim Johnson as the current incumbent with the most votes in District 3; that does not mean the two candidates don’t have competition in the General... [More]

Lack of quorum cancels Commission meeting

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This week’s Linn County Commission meeting was cancelled due to lack of a quorum. At Tuesday morning’s meeting, delayed a day because of Monday’s federal Columbus Day holiday, only Jim Johnson, District 3 commissioner, was present. After texts to conjure... [More]

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SPORTS

Wade makes State golf for the Buffalos

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The Prairie View girls’ golf team competed in the Pioneer League tournament on Oct. 8 and then competed in the 3-1A Regional at Caney Valley on Oct. 14.  The girls did well at both events and especially Harley Wade who won the league tournament and placed second... [More]

Schneider makes State golf for Jayhawk

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The Jayhawk Linn and Pleasanton golf teams that make up of one member each had a good week of tournaments.  First the girls went to a tournament in Anderson County on Oct. 7 before competing in the 3-1A Regional at Caney Valley on Oct. 14.  In the tournament at... [More]

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COMMUNITY

Taco Dinner and auction set for Oct. 19 to aid Ray of Hope

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A taco dinner and silent auction has been set for Saturday, Oct. 19, from 5-7 p.m. at the La Cygne Library in the big room on the north end of the building in an effort to raise funds for the community outreach organization Ray of Hope. The organization actually started about... [More]

Handcart donated to museum restored by local craftsman

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A hand cart that was used at the Pleasanton railroad depot in the early 1900s was recently donated to the Linn County Museum by Kenton and Mary Lynn Sylvester Bell. After it was donated, local craftsman Freddy Miller restored the cart enabling it to work as it once did. “The... [More]

Handcart donated to museum restored by local craftsman

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A hand cart that was used at the Pleasanton railroad depot in the early 1900s was recently donated to the Linn County Museum by Kenton and Mary Lynn Sylvester Bell. After it was donated, local craftsman Freddy Miller restored the cart enabling it to work as it once did. “The... [More]

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