Parker passes road survey resolution - Feb. 16, 2022
Action furthers last month’s eminent domain process ordinance As a next step to an eminent domain process ordinance passed Jan. 26, Parker city leaders unanimously approved at Thursday’s monthly council meeting a resolution to conduct a land survey. Burton Harding, city attorney,...[More]
BULLY PULPIT - Feb. 16, 2022
Happy medium I grew up in Denver, lived in Phoenix for years and then moved to rural western Kansas when an opportunity to move to a slower lifestyle presented itself. When that lifestyle was too slow, an opportunity in eastern Kansas showed itself – hence, the Linn County News. So, I’ve...[More]
Meeting goals head on, one match at a time - Feb. 16, 2022
Page is headed to State Alyssa Page, a senior at Prairie View High School, says she is excited at the prospect of going to State later this month. Alyssa Page has had a great wrestling career at Prairie View and she only continues to get better. She won her first league championship as...[More]
Courtwarming Jayhawk basketball falls to Central Heights - Feb. 16, 2022
The Jayhawk-Linn basketball teams hosted Central Heights on Feb. 11 for their 2022 Courtwarming. Both the boys’ and girls’ teams played very close games with the Vikings, but each ended up on the losing end. The girls lost by three, 35-32, while the boys lost by two, 50-48. The girls’...[More]
Pleasanton basketball faces Uniontown, Oswego - Feb. 16, 2022
The Pleasanton girls’ and boys’ basketball teams played league foes Uniontown and Oswego this past week. They traveled to Uniontown on Feb. 8 and then to Oswego on Feb. 11. The girls lost to Uniontown, 44-13, but defeated Oswego, 27-20. The boys were the opposite as they defeated...[More]
Lady Buffalo wrestling sends three to State Tournament - Feb. 16, 2022
The Prairie View girls’ wrestling team traveled to Chanute on Feb. 12 to compete in the 4-1A Regional B. The Lady Buffs had three wrestlers win the tournament and advance to the State Tournament in Salina on Feb. 23-24. Those wrestlers were Alyssa Page, 155, Kylee Eastwood, 170, and Whitley Cox-Halliburton,...[More]
Peggy Ruth Corp 08-26-1950 to 02-10-2022 - Feb. 14, 2022
Linn County News Published Feb. 16, 2022 Peggy Ruth Corp, 71, of Hume, Mo., passed away peacefully on Feb. 10, 2022, at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo. Peggy Ruth (McCullough) Corp was born Aug. 26, 1950, in Durant, Okla. She graduated in 1968 from Lone Jack High...[More]
Russell Lee Purdy 07-13-1941 to 02-09-2022 - Feb. 14, 2022
Linn County News Published Feb. 16, 2022 Russell Lee Purdy, age 80, Pleasanton, Kan., passed away Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. He was born on July 13, 1941, in Trading Post, Kan., the son of Charles and Daisy Goldie Elizabeth Rittinghouse Purdy. He graduated from Pleasanton High School...[More]
Sonya R. Rittinghouse 04-17-1962 to 02-10-2022 - Feb. 14, 2022
Linn County News Published Feb. 16, 2022 Sonya R. Rittinghouse, age 59, Columbia, Mo., formerly of Pleasanton, Kan., passed away Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. Sonya was born April 17, 1962, in Kansas City, Mo., the daughter of Ray and Alice Manewal Pritchard. She was an amazing...[More]
Anadel Edmiston Gable 11-05-1931 to 02-07-2022 - Feb. 14, 2022
Linn County News Published Feb. 16, 2022 It is with much sorrow that the family of Anadel Gable shares the news of her passing. Anadel Edmiston Gable, a longtime resident of Pleasanton, Kan., passed away peacefully on Feb. 7, 2022, at Highland Meadows Health and Rehab Center in...[More]
