Uncharted territory: First wetland reserve easement in Kansas - Aug. 20, 2025
LABETTE COUNTY, KS – In 1994, Max and Eweleen Good became pioneers in wetland conservation in Kansas, making history as the first landowners to voluntarily participate in a USDA Wetland Reserve Easement (WRE) in the state. At the time, the concept of wetland restoration was new, and the Goods had...[More]
Vonnie May’s Ice Cream Shoppe open in Mound City - Aug. 20, 2025
Walking into Vonnie May’s Ice Cream Shoppe gives those who can’t wait to partake of old-fashioned ice cream a vision of what an old-time ice cream parlor would have been like. Now, that ice cream parlor is open at 510 W. Main in Mound City. Brady and Leslie Wolfe, owners, were hard at work...[More]
USD 346 welcomes new staff members - Aug. 20, 2025
The Jayhawk USD 346 welcomed several new staff members during their orientation last week; filling positions in multiple buildings. Bo Meisenheimer joins the staff at the junior high/high school as a building aide. Meisenheimer is a 2019 graduate of St. Thomas Aquinas High School and a student of Park...[More]
USD 344 welcomes new staff - Aug. 20, 2025
Pleasanton USD 344 welcomed several new staff members for the upcoming 2025-2026 academic year. Torrie Walton is joining the district as a new first grade teacher in the elementary. Torrie hails from Utah and graduated from Uintah High School in 2004 before attending Utah State University and...[More]
USD 362 welcomes 8 new licensed teachers - Aug. 20, 2025
Students in Prairie View Unified School District 362 greeted eight new licensed teachers when classes began last Thursday. Holly Blanchard returns to her alma mater district to teach third through fifth grade special education at Parker Elementary. After her graduation from Prairie View High,...[More]
BULLY PULPIT - Aug. 20, 2025
Brain fog I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m mentally shot. There comes a time when our brain’s say ‘no more,’ and that’s where I’m at. It’s time for a fishing trip. I look out my kitchen window to raised-bed gardens that are growing...[More]
Are you making the best use of your ears? - Aug. 20, 2025
“Hear that lonesome whippoorwill/ He sounds too blue to fly/ The midnight train is whining low…” – Hank Williams Among the books I mean to get around to reading is Neil Ansell’s “The Edge of Silence: In Search of the Disappearing Sounds of Nature.” Although...[More]
Rethinking what safety means - Aug. 20, 2025
Rethinking what safety means Joe Scarborough threw kindling onto the fire. In the context of President Trump calling up the National Guard to help police the streets of Washington, D.C. — “you’ll have more police and you’ll be so happy, ’cause you’d...[More]
Time for Trump to show Putin who’s boss - Aug. 20, 2025
Mr. Trump, “Tear down that Putin!” That’s something my father might say at this point if he were watching Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy still struggling to end the bloody war in Ukraine. Trump is in Alaska to meet face-to-face with Putin. Zelenskyy is waiting...[More]
John Clayton Bowman ~ 02-01-1944 to 08-17-2025 - Aug. 19, 2025
Linn County News Published August 20, 2025 John Clayton Bowman, age 81, Parker, Kan., passed away Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025. He was born on Feb. 1, 1944, in Goodrich, Kan., the son of John Thomas “Tom” Bowman and Carrie Theodoshia Shafer Bowman. John attended Parker Rural High School....[More]
