La Cygne leaders anticipate quotes - Dec. 4, 2024
Price tags are related to City Hall software subscriptions La Cygne city leaders will be anticipating price-quote reports on City Hall software subscriptions when they meet in regular session at 7 p.m. this Wednesday. As motioned by Jerome Mitzner and seconded by David Brenneman, a unanimous...[More]
Commissioners review option for county website - Dec. 4, 2024
Commissioners spent a portion of their Dec. 2 meeting reviewing an option for a new website hosting company. CivicPlus representative Ryan McNally provided the commissioners information on his company, focusing on their website design and hosting abilities. McNally began by thanking the commissioners...[More]
BULLY PULPIT - Dec. 4, 2024
Hunter - tell me it isn’t so… Knock me over with a feather – Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, for crimes he committed, may have committed or even thought about committing for the past 11 years. It was entertaining watching Katie Couric out-takes from months ago stating that “the...[More]
Prairie View football sets multiple school and individual records - Dec. 4, 2024
The Prairie View football team had a great season this year. They finished with an 8-3 record and were both 3A District and Regional champions. With such success multiple records were set this season on both a team and individual level. Here are those individual and team records according to the Prairie...[More]
Hume teams lose openers at Appleton City - Dec. 4, 2024
When your teams graduate four 1,000-point career scorers, a rebuild is to be expected. And that’s the case at Missouri border neighbor Hume. Well, kinda. Yes, Hume’s boys graduated cousins Beriah and Bryson Morrison, Beriah now in Kansas City, Mo.’s, Avila University hoops program...[More]
SPECIAL: Lamb resigns County Clerk position - Dec. 3, 2024
Linn County County Clerk David Lamb announced his intent to resign his position in January; that despite his original words to voters that he’d stay in the position for two years until he could train a replacement. A press release was received over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend that Lamb...[More]
Cynthia Eileen “Cindy” Staton ~ 03-31-1957 to 11-26-2024 - Dec. 3, 2024
Linn County News Published December 4, 2024 Cynthia Eileen “Cindy” Staton, age 67, Prescott, Kan., passed away Nov. 26, 2024. She was born on March 31, 1957, in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of James Willaim and Jean Rae Long Mayhugh. She graduated from Jayhawk Linn High School...[More]
Deputy extinguishes fire at Prairie View - Nov. 27, 2024
Sheriff Akes, “There’s heroes all around us.” What was dispatched as a fire at 1095 and 2400 Roads last Friday, Nov. 22 turned out to be a grill fire in the Vo-Ag room at Prairie View High School. With that, SRO Linn County Deputy Kyler Parscale was called into action. Parscale...[More]
Commissioners meet with city representatives on compactor sites - Nov. 27, 2024
Linn County Commissioners met with representatives of the cities of La Cygne and Pleasanton during their meeting on Monday, Nov. 25 to discuss the possibility of acquiring new agreements with those municipalities in regards to their local compactor sites. The compactor sites have been a topic of discussion...[More]
Pleasanton Council discusses compactor agreement - Nov. 27, 2024
The Pleasanton Council met Monday, Nov. 25 for their regular bi-weekly meeting and discussed the meeting their city attorney Jacklyn Paletta had with the Linn County Commissioners concerning trash compactors earlier in the day. Paletta said, “From my understanding, the county wants an updated...[More]
