USD 362 moves closer to daycare option - May. 29, 2024
District to seek bids on old bus barn repurposing Prairie View Unified School District 362 is moving closer to providing a daycare option for pre-school 3- and 4-year-olds beginning this fall. On a 6-1 vote at their May 21 monthly meeting, the board of education will move forward with the next...[More]
BULLY PULPIT - May. 29, 2024
Memorial Day Though Memorial Day was Monday, memories of the day were forefront in my mind, especially after visiting my step-mom’s grave in Oklahoma and seeing volunteers placing flags on veteran graves. Dad was busy readying the soil to put grass seed on the grave as other individuals visited...[More]
Jayhawk Linn boys’ track team places seventh at State - May. 29, 2024
The Jayhawk Linn track team sent 20 athletes to the State tournament in Wichita on May 24 and 25. The Hawks did well at the tournament especially the boys’ team which placed seventh overall with 39 team points. Moundridge won State for the 2A boys with 55 points while Inman won for the 2A girls...[More]
Prairie View track has multiple medal winners at State - May. 29, 2024
The Prairie View track team traveled to Wichita on May 24-25 to compete in the 3A State tournament. The Buffalos did well as they had boy and girl medal winners and the defending State champion girls’ team placed 10th this year with a team score of 23 points. Smoky Valley won the meet for the...[More]
Gratton medals for the Jays at State track - May. 29, 2024
The Pleasanton track team traveled to Wichita on May 24-25 to compete in the 2A State track meet. The Jays sent seven to State and the only boy athlete to go for the Jays did the best as he earned his way to the medal stand. Ashton Gratton earned a medal in the 100 meter dash as he placed fifth with...[More]
Wilma Virginia Cook ~ 03-24-1935 to 05-24-2024 - May. 28, 2024
Linn County News Published May 29, 2024 Wilma Virginia Cook, age 89, Stover, Mo., formerly of Pleasanton, Kan., passed away Friday, May 24, 2024. She was born on March 24, 1935, in Lockport, La., the daughter of Edgar and Dorena Matherne Guidry. She owned her own trucking company before retirement....[More]
Commissioners hear from landowners, representatives on Hell’s Bend Bridge grant - May. 22, 2024
Last week Linn County Public Works Administrator Shawn West spoke to commissioners on the Hell’s Bend bridge project noting that a decision needed to be made that day as it was due the previous Friday. West had requested and received an extension until that day. At that same meeting, Chad McCullough...[More]
Executive sessions dominate commissioners meeting - May. 22, 2024
Several resulting from commissioners’ issues with road department This week’s meeting of the Linn County Commissioners was dominated by lengthy executive sessions; two, near the beginning were for legal advice from County Counselor Mark Hagen. The third executive session combined...[More]
La Cygne sets permanent sewer project bonds - May. 22, 2024
Separate action adopts bond-related charter ordinance Authorization providing for permanent issuance of general obligation bonds for the $6.261 million sewer rehabilitation project was unanimously approved at last Wednesday’s regular La Cygne council meeting. Ordinance No. 1526 will allow...[More]
BULLY PULPIT - May. 22, 2024
Kicking Butt The woke culture caught on fire after Kansas City Chief kicker Harrison Butker spoke at the Benedictine College graduation as their keynote speaker. Heads on the left and wokies alike blew up with some of his thoughts on women, motherhood and more. NPR.org, a woke, leftie stronghold, wrote,...[More]