Prairie View volleyball team starts season with home tournament - Sep. 1, 2021
The Prairie View volleyball team started their season with a home tournament on Aug. 28. The tournament featured eight teams: Prairie View, Humboldt, Iola and Waverly were in pool A while Rossville, Wellsville, Burlington and Baldwin were in pool B. The Buffalos feature eight seniors...[More]
SPECIAL: Demonstration planned, child abuse victim wants to testify - Sep. 1, 2021
Demonstration noon Friday, Sept. 10, at Linn County Courthouse (To protect the victim, no names of family members are used.) Hoping to put pressure on Assistant Linn County Attorney Justin Meeks to not allow the proposed plea deal of 5-17 months to go through, the grandfather of the victim...[More]
Pleasanton volleyball places fourth at Marmaton Valley - Sep. 1, 2021
Due to COVID at Jayhawk the annual Three Rivers League volleyball tournament was not held at Jayhawk; in fact, the tournament was split into two different locations. One of those locations was Uniontown and the other was Marmaton Valley. The original host Jayhawk did not compete in this tournament,...[More]
Mi Ranchito Café to open in Garrett’s BBQ location - Sep. 1, 2021
Property sale closes Aug. 26 Garrett’s BBQ, Mound City, formerly known as Jayhawk Inn, sold last week to Rulber De La Torre, owner of the Mi Ranchito Mexican restaurants in the Kansas City metro area. In 2008, De La Torre purchased a farm in the Mound City area, and then bought a second...[More]
BULLY PULPIT - Sep. 1, 2021
Note from the Publisher: I want my readers, and those that follow us on Facebook, to know that running the KBI’s Affidavit of Discovery report on Lonnie Shane Martin in full last week was very hard to do and came with much thought. First, it was very hard to type the report verbatim – the...[More]
Commissioners request funds from school districts for SRO vehicles - Sep. 1, 2021
The Linn County Commissioners have sent letters to the superintendents of each of the three school districts requesting the districts to budget funds over the next three years to cover the costs for replacing the vehicles the school resource officers (SROs) use. The letters detailed the amount of funds...[More]
La Cygne budget approval includes transfers - Sep. 1, 2021
La Cygne city leaders approved their 2022 city budget at a special meeting last Wednesday, Aug. 25, but not before allowing internal spending-authority transfers. With no patrons in attendance, the council on 3-0 votes – with Jerome Mitzner and Keith Stoker not present – first approved Resolution...[More]
Joe Charley Allison Jr. 08-24-1939 to 08-29-2021 - Aug. 31, 2021
Linn County News Published Sept. 1, 2021 Joe Charley Allison Jr., age 82 of Prescott, Kan., passed away, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. Joe was born Aug. 24, 1939, the son of Joe Charley and Nora (Bailey) Allison Sr., at Hughes, Ark. He was a longtime member of the Teamsters Union, doing construction and truck...[More]
Mary Kretchmar 08-11-1946 to 08-26-2021 - Aug. 31, 2021
Linn County News Published Sept. 1, 2021 Mary Kretchmar went home to Heaven on Aug. 26, 2021. Mary, or Mary Jane if you’re from Linn County or knew her from her younger days, was born in a little farmhouse in Mound City, Kan., on Aug. 11, 1946. She was raised there alongside her big brother,...[More]
Ann Louise Ferguson 03-18-1933 to 08-25-2021 - Aug. 31, 2021
Linn County News Published Sept. 1, 2021 Ann Louise Ferguson, 88, of Girard, Kan., died on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021, at the Girard Medical Center. She was born on March 18, 1933, in Holton, Kan., the daughter of Cyril and Velma Nolin. She grew up in Blue Mound, Kan., and graduated from Blue Mound...[More]
