Court deems Parks-Maki incompetent now to stand trial - Feb. 10, 2021
Judge commits murder suspect to Larned State Hospital A suspect in the murder of a Mound City woman has been deemed not competent currently to stand trial and will be committed to a Kansas mental hospital. At an in-person competency hearing Monday in Linn County District Court, Judge Terri...[More]
Sheriff, Commissioners discuss staffing for Communications Department - Feb. 10, 2021
Following Linn County Sheriff Kevin Friends’ weekly report at the meeting on Monday, Feb. 8, Commissioner Danny McCullough asked what it would take to add full time staff to the Communications Department. Friend stated that he currently has five full time and one part time staff members in that...[More]
Heavy rain accentuates La Cygne storm water issue - Feb. 10, 2021
Public works head stresses infiltration problems Heavy Jan. 29-30 weekend rainfall has accentuated a sewer-system infiltration issue at La Cygne. So reported Dan Nasalroad, public works superintendent, at the regular council meeting last Wednesday, Feb. 3. Included in his report was a plea that the...[More]
BULLY PULPIT - Feb. 10, 2021
Doubling minimum wage is a job killer The definition of an oxymoron is, according to duckduckgo.com, “A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence.” Well, naming Bernie Sanders as Labor Secretary would have been that had President...[More]
Richard Joseph Coffey 12-21-1968 to 02-03-2021 - Feb. 9, 2021
Linn County News Published Feb. 10, 2021 Richard Joseph Coffey, age 52, Fulton, Kan., died Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, as the result of an accident. He was born on Dec. 21, 1968, in Rochelle, Ill., the son of John Fredrick and Mary Ellen Eagan Coffey. He was a laborer working out of Laborer’s Union...[More]
Barbara Sue Smith Michael 10-21-1944 to 02-02-2021 - Feb. 9, 2021
Linn County News Published Feb. 10, 2021 Barbara Sue Smith Michael, age 76, departed this life Feb. 2, 2021, after a lengthy fight with cancer. She was born Oct. 21, 1944, the third child of William Louis and Irmal Irene Cowan Smith. She was first married to Brett Lewis. They had one child, Edward...[More]
Margaret Jane Lamb Shaw 12-15-1926 to 02-05-2021 - Feb. 9, 2021
Linn County News Published Feb. 10, 2021 Margaret Jane Lamb Shaw, age 94, Moran, Kan., passed away Feb. 5, 2021, peacefully at Country Place Memory Care in Fort Scott, Kan. Margaret was born Dec. 15, 1926, south of Potosi schoolhouse in Pleasanton, Kan. She was the third of six children born to Mamie...[More]
Dora Arlene Johnson 12-19-1930 to 02-04-2021 - Feb. 5, 2021
Linn County News Published Feb. 10, 2021 Dora Arlene Johnson, age 90, Mound City, Kan., passed Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. She was born on Dec. 19, 1930, in Farlinville, Kan., the daughter of Lawrence Russel and Dora May Johnson Holt. She graduated from Mound City High School. Arlene...[More]
Donald R. Pryor 08-29-1945 to 02-01-2021 - Feb. 4, 2021
Linn County News Published Feb. 10, 2021 Donald R. Pryor, 75, of LaCygne, Kan., passed away unexpectedly on Feb. 1, 2021. Don was an amazing man who loved his family and enjoyed spending as much time as he could with them. He had many hobbies such as drag racing, working on his race...[More]
Lady Jays have a busy week with games against three league opponents - Feb. 3, 2021
The Pleasanton girls’ basketball team had a busy week as they hosted Three Rivers League foes St. Paul, Marmaton Valley and Altoona-Midway. They hosted St. Paul on Jan. 25 and lost 35-37. The Lady Jays bounced right back on Jan. 26 hosting Marmaton Valley and winning that game 39-25. The team...[More]
