Jeffrey Kirk Brown 08-02-1950 to 01-12-2022 - Jan. 18, 2022
Linn County News Published Jan. 19, 2022 Jeffrey Kirk Brown, age 71, Paola, Kan., passed away Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. He was born in Missouri on Aug. 2, 1950, the son of Donald L. and Katheryn L. Sampson Brown. He was a graduate of Ruskin High School. He served his country during...[More]
Debbie Kay Brown 02-03-1958 to 01-15-2022 - Jan. 18, 2022
Linn County News Published Jan. 19, 2022 Debbie Kay Brown, age 63, Paola, Kan., passed away Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. She was born in Butler, Mo., on Feb. 3, 1958, the daughter of Loy J. and Anna Lee Moore. She was united in marriage to Jeffrey Brown on Feb. 15, 1998. She...[More]
Dennis Jerome Higgins 06-06-1957 to 01-08-2022 - Jan. 17, 2022
Linn County News Published Jan. 19, 2022 Dennis Jerome Higgins, age 64, La Cygne, Kan., passed away Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022. He was born on June 6, 1957, in Kansas City, Kan., the son of Joseph "Joe" Brian and Carol Ann Galvin Higgins. He graduated from Burlington, Kan.,...[More]
Reta M. Milliken 04-04-1926 to 01-12-2022 - Jan. 14, 2022
Linn County News Published Jan. 19, 2022 Reta M. Milliken, 95, of Williamsburg, Kan., passed away Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022, at Parkview Heights, Garnett, Kan. Funeral services were scheduled at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, at Williamsburg United Methodist Church, Williamsburg....[More]
Christiansen: cover crops benefit the sub-soil - Jan. 12, 2022
Greg Christiansen will tell you that, when it comes to soil, where the action occurs year-round lies below the surface. "More goes on underneath the soil than above," he said. "It's unbelievable." By implementing winter cover crops on his 1,800-2,000 acres of cash crop land and measuring...[More]
Jayhawk basketball defeats Crest - Jan. 12, 2022
The Jayhawk-Linn boys’ and girls’ basketball teams hosted league foe Crest on Jan. 4. The Hawks took care of business, and both the girls and boys won. The girls won their game 34-26 while the boys won their game 52-45. In the girls’ game the Lady Hawks got out to an 11-8 first quarter...[More]
Buffs show glimpses but fall to Adrian - Jan. 12, 2022
Prairie View’s basketball team needs to package the first 3 minutes, 17 seconds of its second quarter last Friday. That’s when the Buffalos ran off 11 straight points to cut an Adrian, Mo., lead to two, 24-22. Unfortunately, the host Blackhawks’ unanswered rallies of 10 and seven points...[More]
Pleasanton basketball faces league foes Northeast Arma, St. Paul - Jan. 12, 2022
It was a busy week for the Pleasanton girls’ and boys’ basketball teams as they hosted Northeast Arma on Jan. 4 and traveled to St. Paul on Jan. 7. The girls’ team unfortunately posted their first two losses of the season. In the game against Arma they lost a nail biter, 35-31. Eryn...[More]
Pastor honored for 10 years of service to church - Jan. 12, 2022
Members of Wall Street Christian Church, rural Mound City, surprised their pastor, Adam Holt, with a special luncheon on Sunday, Jan. 9. The surprise lunch was to thank him for his 10 years of serving as pastor for them. Pastor Holt’s first sermon there was given Jan. 1, 2012. The congregation...[More]
BULLY PULPIT - Jan. 12, 2022
Lockdown versus herd immunity There is no doubt there are definite differences of opinion out there concerning the COVID-19 vaccination, i.e., whether or not to vaccinate, the right of the person to choose to be inoculated or the right of the state to order a person to be inoculated. Further, those...[More]
