BULLY PULPIT - Feb. 26, 2025
Back to work I don’t know how many of my readers have ever seen the James Bond spoof movie, “The Kingsman: The Secret Service,” but the bad guy planted bombs in people’s heads that blew up when a certain button was pushed. Well, the major outcry from government workers about...[More]
Barbara Jean Harbison ~ 10-16-1939 to 02-20-2025 - Feb. 25, 2025
Linn County News Published February 26, 2025 Barbara Jean Harbison, age 85, La Cygne, Kan., passed away Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. She was born on Oct. 16, 1939, in La Cygne, Kan., the daughter of Harry T. and Evelyn Faye Nellsch Bergman. She graduated from La Cygne High School. She worked at...[More]
Jerold Chester Davis ~ 05-13-1937 to 02-19-2025 - Feb. 25, 2025
Linn County News Published February 26, 2025 Jerold Chester Davis, age 87, Hume, Mo., passed away Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. Funeral service will be 11 a.m. Saturday, March 1, 2025, at the Hume Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Underwood Cemetery. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to...[More]
Emma Darlene Peek ~ 05-11-1935 to 02-08-2025 - Feb. 25, 2025
Linn County News Published February 26, 2025 Emma Darlene Peek, age 89 of Neosho, Mo., formerly of Amoret, Mo., died Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, at Freeman West Hospital in Joplin, Mo. She was born May 11, 1935, to Harold Joseph and Juanita May Hoyt Hoaglan in Merwin, Mo. Darlene, the oldest of...[More]
Raymond “Ray” Eugene Holsman ~ 10-08-1944 to 02-18-2025 - Feb. 21, 2025
Linn County News Published February 26, 2025 Raymond “Ray” Eugene Holsman 80 years old of Pleasanton, Kan., entered into eternal rest with his Heavenly Father on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 following a brief illness of cancer. Raymond was able to return home and live out his final days...[More]
Parker dissolves police department--for now - Feb. 19, 2025
Council plans budget workshop to determine its future Parker’s governing council has voted to dissolve its city police department, pending decisions that may follow a future departmental budget workshop. At last Thursday’s monthly meeting, the council voted 3-1 to accept Gary Earley’s...[More]
STARS votes to separate from FSCC for upcoming school year - Feb. 19, 2025
During the meeting of the USD 346 Board of Education on Feb. 10, Superintendent Shawn Thomas reported to the board that during the last board meeting for the Southeast Technical Academy for Rural Students (STARS) vocational school’s board meeting, that board voted to seek separation from Fort Scott...[More]
Trials set in 2023 Tanglewood riot, gate destruction - Feb. 19, 2025
Trials are set and upcoming in multiple cases related to the May 2023 dismantling of the electronic gates at Tanglewood Lakes. The incident began with several residents claiming unfair treatment by the lake’s homeowners’ association and resulted in the cutting and dismantling of the electronic...[More]
BULLY PULPIT - Feb. 19, 2025
DOGE clean-up a bad thing? The are a couple of adages that seem to ring true; the first is “the squeaking wheel gets the grease” and the second rings that “the loudest one is the guiltiest” and suggests that individuals who are the most vocal or defensive in a situation may be...[More]
Jayhawk girls’ wrestling places third at East Regional as seven qualify for State - Feb. 19, 2025
The Jayhawk girls’ wrestling team had a great Regional tournament. The girls traveled to Rossville on Feb. 14-15 to compete in the 3-1A East Regional tournament. The top eight places in each weight division qualify for the 3-1A State tournament at Hays on Feb. 28 – March 1. The girls had...[More]
