Leota Irene Schneider 03-19-1938 to 01-16-2022 - Jan. 20, 2022
Linn County News Published Jan. 26, 2022 Leota Irene Schneider, age 83, Mound City, Kan., passed away Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022. She was born in Whiting, Kan., on March 19, 1938, the daughter of Stanley and Irene Andrick Knutsen. She graduated from Whiting High School. She...[More]
Melvin L. Barnett 06-14-1944 to 01-19-2022 - Jan. 20, 2022
Linn County News Published Jan. 26, 2022 Melvin Leroy Barnett, 77, passed away Jan. 19, 2022, at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, Kan. He was born June 14, 1944, in Paola, Kan., to Marion B. and Phoebe E. (McCarty) Barnett. Melvin was a 1962 graduate of Parker Rural High School, Parker,...[More]
Michael Bowyer 05-11-1953 to 01-16-2022 - Jan. 20, 2022
Linn County News Published Jan. 26, 2022 Sunday morning, Jan. 16, 2022, Michael Bowyer stooped right down, buckled up his travelin’ shoes and headed out to meet his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, face to face. As he was leaving he said, “Let's get a move on,”...[More]
Paul D. Satchell 03-13-1938 to 01-02-2022 - Jan. 19, 2022
Linn County News Published Jan. 26, 2022 Paul D. Satchell, 83, of Bunker Hill, Kan., passed away Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, at the Russell Regional Hospital in Russell, Kan. Paul was born March 13, 1938, in Centerville, Kan., the son of Ellsworth Paul and Lilly (Vickerstaff) Satchell....[More]
Lady Buff win reflects new culture - Jan. 19, 2022
For the past five basketball seasons, the most wins a Prairie View girls’ varsity team had registered in any one campaign was four (two years ago). In just their seventh game Jan. 11 hosting Anderson County, the Lady Buffalos matched that total with a 31-22 win that also moves them to 2-1 in Pioneer...[More]
Pleasanton basketball hosts Jayhawk in Three Rivers competition - Jan. 19, 2022
The Pleasanton and Jayhawk basketball teams played each other already this year in the Linn County Tournament and will play again in the Mid-Season tournament. However, on Jan. 11 the teams faced Three Rivers League action at Pleasanton. Like the Linn County Tournament, the Pleasanton girls were victors...[More]
Hawk Project making a difference for USD 346 students - Jan. 19, 2022
At the December meeting of the Jayhawk USD 346 board of education Curt Toll, Hawk Project leader and interventionist for USD 346, spoke to the board about the project and the difference it is making for students at the high school level in the district. In a subsequent interview, Toll explained that...[More]
JES program focused on social- emotional growth and learning - Jan. 19, 2022
Jayhawk USD 346 adopted a research-based social-emotional learning program in 2020 called 7 Mindsets Academy, which is currently under the direction of Denise Umphenour, elementary school counselor, who has been implementing it once per month since they purchased it. “This month, our teachers...[More]
BULLY PULPIT - Jan. 19, 2022
Quandary “We’re in a pickle, Dick” as said by Téa Leoni playing Jane to Dick, Jim Carrey, in “Fun with Dick and Jane.” Or, what’s Big Pharma going to do to try to continue getting people vaccinated against Covid when two pills have been produced that can be...[More]
Stainbrook’s store sold; Chad & Tara Allen new owners - Jan. 19, 2022
Approximately three years after he bought Stainbrook’s Auto, Home, Farm & Feed, La Cygne, Jeff Yowell sold the store to Chad and Tara Allen – again bringing store ownership under the wings of the Stainbrooks as Tara Allen is the daughter of Terry Stainbrook and Chad Allen the son of Bill...[More]
