Jayhawk basketball falls to Osawatomie on Courtwarming - Feb. 10, 2021
The Jayhawk basketball team hosted Osawatomie on Feb. 4 in a non-league contest. The Hawks also celebrated their Senior/Parent Night and Courtwarming during the game. Osawatomie defeated the Hawks the previous time they met and things were no different this time as the Jayhawk girls lost 58-30 and the...[More]
Prairie View wrestling competes in the 4A District 7 tournament at Fort Scott - Feb. 10, 2021
The Prairie View wrestling team traveled to Fort Scott on Feb. 6 to compete in the 4A District 7 tournament. Due to COVID-19 wrestling was broken into district tournaments for each class to determine who would compete at Regionals. The top four places in each weight class at the district tournaments...[More]
Prairie View girls’ wrestling have five qualify for Regionals - Feb. 10, 2021
The Lady Buff wrestling team traveled to Osawatomie on Feb. 5 to compete in the Girls Division II District 7 wrestling tournament. Due to COVID, KSHSSA is doing district tournaments for boys’ and girls’ wrestling to cut down the numbers at the Regional tournaments. The top four from...[More]
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]
