Retired principal pleads no contest to reporting failure - Feb. 7, 2018
A retired Prairie View High principal has pleaded no contest to one count of failure as teachers/administration to report child abuse/neglect. In Linn County District Court last Wednesday, Jan. 31, Judge Terri L. Johnson, 6th Kansas Judicial District, sentenced Timothy Weis, 58, to eight days in the...[More]
Charles D. “Buck†Jones 07-08-1936 to 02-03-2018 - Feb. 6, 2018
Linn County News Published Feb. 7, 2018 Charles D. “Buck” Jones, age 81, retired Case-New Holland welder, passed away Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018. Visitation with family will be 5-7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9, 2018. Memorial services are 10 a.m. Saturday. Both are at Meridian Avenue Baptist Church,...[More]
Cleta Fern Stump 09-16-1950 to 01-30-2018 - Feb. 6, 2018
Linn County News Published Feb. 7, 2018 Cleta Fern Stump, age 67, Mound City, Kan., passed away on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, at her home. Cleta was born Sept. 16, 1950, at Fort Scott, Kan., to Clyde and Alice (Jackman) DeMott. She attended Mound City High School. On June 16, 1967, she married...[More]
Mildred Katie Bortzfield 10-26-1931 to 02-04-2018 - Feb. 6, 2018
Linn County News Published Feb. 7, 2018 Mildred Katie Bortzfield, age 86, formerly of Pleasanton, Kan., died Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018, at Pinnacle Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation, Olathe, Kan. She was born on Oct. 26, 1931, in Fulton, Kan., the daughter of Robert and Hazel Wurtz Clendening. She...[More]
Cathy Widner 11-27-1955 to 02-03-2018 - Feb. 6, 2018
Linn County News Published Feb. 7, 2018 Cathy Widner, age 62, La Cygne, Kan., passed away Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018, at her home. She was born on Nov. 27, 1955, at Butler, Mo., the daughter of Elzie Eugene and Joy Madeline Barker Slaughter. She graduated from Prairie View High School. She married...[More]
Oral Hazel Rhynerson 10-15-1917 to 12-26-2018 - Jan. 31, 2018
Linn County News Published Jan. 2, 2019 Oral Hazel Rhynerson, age 101, Blue Mound, Kan., passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018, at her home. She was born on Oct. 15, 1917, in Mayview, Mo., the daughter of Lester and Ethel Mills Hoyt. She married Harold Henry “Pete” Rhynerson...[More]
Pleasanton basketball splits against Southeast - Jan. 31, 2018
The Pleasanton basketball teams hosted Southeast-Cherokee on Jan. 26. To see the full article, check out this week's edition of the Linn County News or check out the online version here....[More]
Bully Pulpit - Jan. 31, 2018
Opioid crisis I guess I’m sheltered, naive – call it whatever – but I really didn’t comprehend the opioid crisis for what it is. The Linn County News has reported on crimes that have occurred where people have broken into individuals’ houses to steal pain killers...[More]
Coach Shayla Long takes over Jayhawk girls’ basketball - Jan. 31, 2018
The Jayhawk girls basketball team has a new coach this season in Shayla Long. Long took over for former head girls basketball coach Kris Holt. To see the full article, check out this week's edition of the Linn County News or check out the online version here....[More]
Despite fatigue, Lady ‘Hawks find will to win - Jan. 31, 2018
Five games over eight days may have caught up with the Lady Jayhawks. To see the full article, check out this week's edition of the Linn County News or check out the online version here....[More]
