SPECIAL: Never forget - Sep. 8, 2021
Sept. 11, 2001, was marked indelibly in the minds and the memories of the American people. It was a day of tragedy that unfolded on every television channel, every computer and every radio, as the nation watched and listened as the day unfolded in terror. For people of New York City who watched...[More]
Prairie View football starts season with a win over Santa Fe Trail - Sep. 8, 2021
The Prairie View football team started their 2021 season on Friday with a dominant home win over Pioneer League foe Santa Fe Trail. The Buffalos defeated the Chargers 42-0. The game started with the Chargers getting the ball first and the Buffalos made them punt. Bodi Isenhower started off his great...[More]
Coach sees many positives despite Blu-Jay opening loss - Sep. 8, 2021
After a 42-6 loss to Lenexa’s Christ Preparatory Academy in its football season opener Saturday afternoon, Pleasanton Head Coach Caleb Hendricks was quick to point out the positives of his young team’s performance. Positive No. 1 – “We did not have a whole lot of penalties,”...[More]
Shop in Mantey offers variety - Sep. 8, 2021
Mantey, which the postal service calls rural Prescott, is a little unincorporated town situated on Kansas Highway 7 (K-7), south of Mound City, between 300 Road and the Mapleton turn off, which is right before the curve that takes you into Fulton. The town isn’t very big, boasting only a few homes...[More]
BULLY PULPIT - Sep. 8, 2021
People’s rights We live in an age where people’s rights in these United States are being trampled, squashed, ignored – call it whatever you want, and that’s okay in some people’s books. I also support our right to take or not take any vaccine we wish or don’t wish...[More]
County attorney responds to recent articles and public outcry - Sep. 8, 2021
Linn County Attorney Burton Harding took to the podium at the weekly meeting of the Linn County Commissioners on Tuesday morning, Sept. 7, to respond to articles printed in last week’s edition of the Linn County News. Harding read to the commissioners a 4½ page letter regarding those recent...[More]
Brenneman to contest competency results - Sep. 8, 2021
Bond revision forces him to find new residence by Sept. 17 A La Cygne man facing felony weapons charges will contest a competency evaluation and has been ordered to find a different residence by Sept. 17. At a combined status/no go non-evidentiary preliminary hearing Tuesday morning in Linn...[More]
Kenneth Andrew Wilson Jr. 06-01-1951 to 09-03-2021 - Sep. 7, 2021
Linn County News Published Sept. 8, 2021 Kenneth Andrew Wilson Jr., 70, of Warsaw, Mo., formerly of Odessa, Mo., passed away on Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, at the Harry S. Truman Veterans Hospital in Columbia, Mo. Memorials are suggested to the Greenton Cemetery Association. Cremation has been entrusted...[More]
Kevin Leon Wade 07-20-1952 to 09-01-2021 - Sep. 7, 2021
Linn County News Published Sept. 8, 2021 Kevin Leon Wade, age 69, of Anderson, S.C., went to be with his Lord and Savior on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. He was born July 20, 1952, in La Cygne, Kan., and was the son of Evelyn Miller Wade and the late Norman Wade. Mr. Wade held a bachelor’s degree...[More]
Doris Louise Hargrove 07-11-1930 to 09-04-2021 - Sep. 7, 2021
Linn County News Published Sept. 8, 2021 Doris Louise (Jacobs) Hargrove passed away on Sept. 4, 2021, from causes incident to age. Born to Lonnie Herchel Jacobs and Clara Ettie Choate, Doris grew up running barefoot through the hills and climbing the trees of rural Oklahoma with her siblings. She...[More]
