Commissioner questions payment on mowing contract - Aug. 2, 2023
Following a request for a five minute executive session for legal matters with Levi Fyock, the owner of Scarecrow Farms Lawn Care, Commissioner Jim Johnson asked what took the county employees a year and a half to figure out the station wasn’t being mowed by the contractor but it was being billed. EDA...[More]
Ground breaking held for Linn Valley water tower - Aug. 2, 2023
Construction on Linn Valley’s new water tower began in earnest this week. A contract in the amount of $1,551,700 to supply and construct the water tower was awarded to Caldwell Tanks, Inc. in Louisville, Ken. The contract price includes all material and labor construction. Work on painting...[More]
BULLY P{ULPIT - Aug. 2, 2023
Hot days of old I received an email from a friend outlining hot temperatures recorded in Fort Scott, Kan. in 1954. We hear so much about global warming and see Greta Thunberg wagging her pigtails at us and John Kerry rushing about in his private jet – each warning us about how the sky is...[More]
LINN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS - MONDAY, JULY 31 2023 - Aug. 2, 2023
The Linn County Commissioners met on Monday, July 31, with only two commissioners, Jim Johnson and Jason Hightower, present for the meeting. The meeting began with the approval of minutes of last week’s meeting, followed by the approval of claims in the amount of $504,714.93. Hightower read a...[More]
Three keys for the Chiefs continued success - Aug. 2, 2023
The Kansas City Chiefs are a good football team. They have been to three Super Bowls in the past four years and have won two of them. They have hosted the last five AFC championship games and are more or less a lock to win 10 or more games and make the playoffs for the foreseeable future. So how...[More]
Float a river with me - Aug. 2, 2023
I have been contacted by several readers about the Buffalo River float trip I am going to conduct on Saturday, October 28. It is going to be an all day interpretive trip on the river celebrating the 50-year anniversary of the first such float trip I took there. Actually, I worked as a naturalist...[More]
Jayhawk Youth Football Camp - Jul. 26, 2023
Jayhawk-Linn head high school football coach Dustin Johnson gives the boys some pointers at the Jayhawk Youth Football Camp....[More]
Heat advisory issued for remainder of week - Jul. 26, 2023
According to the National Weather Service (NWS) online map, the majority of Kansas, all of Missouri, nearly half of Nebraska and a good portion of Oklahoma will all be under a heat advisory as of 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 26 that will run through 9 p.m. on Friday, July 28. The NWS is expecting rising...[More]
USD 362 to sell second vo-ed house - Jul. 26, 2023
Prairie View Unified School District 362 will make a second vocational education house available for sale. The unanimous decision came at the board of education’s monthly July 10 meeting. The house is the second and final of two that have been built along La Cygne’s 300 block of South Sixth...[More]
Commissioners question increase to budget for ambulance service - Jul. 26, 2023
During the regular meeting on Monday, July 24, commissioners asked several questions of Galen Anderson with AMR in regard to a requested increase in the budget for the ambulance service for 2024. The budget was presented last week by County Clerk David Lamb as a line item budget with a $204,500 increase...[More]
