• Tanner Holt and Alison Willard are Jayhawk’s 2026 Homecoming King and Queen. Left to right: Coralynn Bukkila, Landon Higgins, Aubreigh Summers, Dominic Alvarez, Queen Alison Willard, King Tanner Holt, Chloe Riley, and Rayse Dean. Crownbearers are Kyndall Cummings and Korbin Cleland.

  • Alison Willard, Chloe Riley and Coralynn Bukkila cheer in their Jayhawk Linn Homecoming candidate formal gowns after Willard was crowned queen.

  • Cars featured in the car show entered the parade before going to the park for car show.

  • Pleasanton City Fire plays music during the cake walk held Saturday.

  • Rose Troth, General Pleasonton parade chair, stands with her husband, Marty. They won 1st and 2nd place tractors with 1950 Wards tractors that they pull with.

  • This week’s Out on the Gravel, taken by Abigail Hughes, is a gorgeous sunset over the La Cygne Lake with the power plant in the background reflected in the water. If you have a photo you’d like to share for Out on the Gravel, please send it to Barbara at linncountynewsreporter@gmail.com. KEEP an eye on next week's paper for exciting news about our Out on the Gravel submissions!

  • Approximately 100 students meet at the pole in front of Pleasanton High School for Meet You At The Pole last Wednesday before school. They prayed for the nation, state, school and much more during their time together. PHOTO Submitted By Derek Brown

  • A visitor at the doctor’s tent during the Heritage Day celebration and reenactment on Saturday at Mine Creek Battlefield looks at actual medical instruments that were used in the 1860s.

  • Reenactors of the Confederate Army perform marching exercises during Heritage Day at Mine Creek Battlefield Saturday, Sept. 26.

  • PVHS Homecoming royalty - Gabbi Culler and Nolan Boyd

NEWS

La Cygne swears in new police chief

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La Cygne swears in new police chief  Advances Phase 3 of Water Project LA CYGNE, Kan. — During Wednesday’s City Council Meeting, Mayor Debra Wilson swore in John Marino as the new chief of police for the city of La Cygne. “Thank you for entrusting me... [More]

Linn Valley economic development a key to future success

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Linn County News Jackielcn1@gmail.com   Success for a city depends on future planning, good doable ideas, listening to all constituents and making hard decisions. With that, Linn Valley is in the middle of all of those points as they move forward with several ideas... [More]

USD 344 gains students, places Meik on administrative leave

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Linn County News Jackielcn1@gmail.com   The USD 344 Board of Education met Monday night with a fairly short agenda in front of them.  The board made a unanimous decision following executive session to place Pleasanton Elementary School Principal Nathan Meik... [More]

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SPORTS

Pleasanton football falls to Southeast on Homecoming

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LINN COUNTY NEWS holtadam82@yahoo.com   The Pleasanton football team celebrated their Homecoming on the evening of Oct. 9 with a game against TRL foe Southeast Cherokee. The Homecoming celebration went great but the game did not go as planned as Pleasanton had six... [More]

Jayhawk girls’ golf sends Wade to State

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LINN COUNTY NEWS holtadam82@yahoo.com   The Jayhawk girls’ golf team traveled to Garnett Country Club to compete in the 3-1A sub-state hosted by Anderson County. The Lady Hawks did not have enough golfers for a team score but the ones that did go did well and... [More]

Prairie View cross country travels to Sugar Valley

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LINN COUNTY NEWS holtadam82@yahoo.com   The Prairie View cross country team traveled to Sugar Valley on Oct. 8 to compete in the Coach Chet Hunter Invitational hosted by Jayhawk. The Buffalos ran well in the event with the seventh grade girls team placing first with... [More]

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Linn County News

Published June 3, 2026

 

Clara Mae “Butch” Heflin passed away peacefully on Thursday, May 28, 2026, having just celebrated her 80th birthday. She was born in Pinckneyville, Ill., on April 18, 1946. The second eldest daughter of 12 children, Butch grew up with her siblings in Southern Illinois and eventually moved to Kansas with her first three children, Gerry, Tammy, and Jeff. She married her husband, Les Heflin, in 1971, with whom she had her final child, Jason.

In life, she was an amazing cook; an avid gardener; a lover of flowers and year-round Christmas décor; a Chiefs football and KU basketball fan; and, above all, a loving sister, wife, mother, and grandmother.

Butch was preceded in death by her parents Ollie and Mike Thomas; siblings Dean, Jim, Myrt, Patty, and Rog; and daughter, Tammy Fleming. She is survived by her loving husband, Les; and her English bulldog Rockin’ Rowdy Riggs; her sons Gerry (Jana), Jeff (Kim), Jason (Mamta); and son-in-law Curtis; and her beloved grandchildren, Matthew, Megan, Cody (Kylee), Dalton (Mia), Marcus, and Sylar; her siblings, Wilbur, Susie, Sherry, Shirley, Judy, Lonnie and their spouses; and many nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be held 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, June 6, 2026 at the Schneider Funeral Home, Pleasanton Chapel.  A Celebration of Life will be held at 5:30 p.m. at the Pleasanton Chapel. Memorial contributions are suggested to the KC Pet Project or a pet charity of choice. Online condolences can be left at www.schneiderfunerals.com. 

 

OBITUARIES

Patricia Ann Sloan ~ 07-09-1932 to 10-10-2026

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Linn County News Published October 14, 2026   Patricia Ann Sloan, age 94, a resident of Sugar Valley Lake in Mound City, Kan., passed away unexpectedly Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026, at her home. She was born July 9, 1932, in Lamar, Mo., the daughter of Morris Larson and... [More]

Florine O’Rourke ~ 09-09-1924 to 10-11-2026

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Linn County News Published October 14, 2026   Florine was born Sept. 9, 1924, on a small farm outside Prescott, Kan., the youngest of six children, to A.E and Florence Holmes. As spoiled as one could possibly be during the Great Depression, she still managed to... [More]

Sharon Vail Tennison ~ 07-19-1948 to 10-10-2026

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Linn County News Published October 14, 2026   Sharon Vail Tennison, 78, of Girard, died at 9:10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026, in the Medicalodge in Frontenac, Kan., where she had been residing for approximately three years. Sharon was born July 19, 1948, in... [More]

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