Pleasanton football falls to Southeast on Homecoming - Oct. 14, 2026
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 turnovers in the game to fall...[More]
Jayhawk girls’ golf sends Wade to State - Oct. 14, 2026
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 one golfer, Josie Wade, made...[More]
Prairie View cross country travels to Sugar Valley - Oct. 14, 2026
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 15 points. To see the...[More]
Mound City pond by the ball park is filling up quick - Oct. 14, 2026
LINN COUNTY NEWS holtadam82@yahoo.com Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks fish biologist Don George is pleased with the progress of fish going into the new city pond by the ballparks in Mound City. George said working with City Superintendent John Bruns, who is leading the project, has...[More]
La Cygne swears in new police chief - Oct. 14, 2026
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 with this position. I look...[More]
Linn Valley economic development a key to future success - Oct. 14, 2026
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 to build the city into more...[More]
USD 344 gains students, places Meik on administrative leave - Oct. 14, 2026
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 on paid administrative leave...[More]
Commissioners discuss Heritage Trust grant, boiler system - Oct. 14, 2026
Linn County News linncountynewsreporter@gmail.com During the meeting held on Tuesday, Oct. 13, the Linn County Commissioners discussed the Heritage Trust grant and Commissioner Alison Hamilton asked for a commitment from the other two commissioners for the matching funds of up to $25,000. Hamilton...[More]
BULLY PULPIT - Oct. 14, 2026
Changes Ah, exciting times ahead! We heard our community speak and we are making some cool changes to improve the Linn County News. First, check out the new website design (www.linncountynews.net); it is not done yet, but many of the bones are there. We expect to add another page for area events! That...[More]
Will the West Awaken? - Oct. 14, 2026
“The most magnificent speech in the last 50 years,” is how journalist and novelist Robert Bidinotto described U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s address last week from the Acropolis. “Here, in Athens, we found the first full realization of all the essential traits that would...[More]
