Melvin Nation 01-24-1939 to 03-30-2019 - Apr. 1, 2019
Linn County News Published April 3, 2019 Melvin Nation, age 80, Mound City, Kan., passed away on Saturday, March 30, 2019, at Menorah Medical Center. He was born at rural Pleasanton, Kan., on Jan. 24, 1939, the son of Leslie and Dorothy Dean Nation. He graduated from...[More]
Bobby Dean Roberts 10-12-1929 to 03-31-2019 - Apr. 1, 2019
Linn County News Published April 3, 2019 Bobby Dean Roberts, age 88, Prescott, Kan., passed away on Sunday, March 31, 2019, at St. Joseph Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo. He was born at Prescott on Oct. 12, 1929, the son of Ferdinand A. and Hazel B. Mealman Roberts. He graduated...[More]
George Wellington Jeffers 07-02-1930 to 03-27-2019 - Apr. 1, 2019
Linn County News Published April 3, 2019 George Wellington Jeffers, was born July 2, 1930, in Centerville, Kan. George passed on March 27, 2019, while residing with Parkview Heights Skilled Nursing Home and Rehabilitation located in Garnett, Kan. George was the fourth...[More]
Debra Sue Myrick 01-13-1952 to 03-29-2019 - Apr. 1, 2019
Linn County News Published April 3, 2019 Debra Sue Myrick, age 67, Pleasanton, Kan., passed away on Friday, March 29, 2019, at her rural Pleasanton home. She was born at Beattyville, Ky., on Jan. 13, 1952, the daughter of Rex and Anna Durbin Tincher. She worked in the construction...[More]
Buffalo wrestlers earn All Academic honors - Mar. 27, 2019
Five Prairie View wrestlers made the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association All Academic teams. Gavin Cullor and Wyait Cox-Halliburton earned All Academic first team honors in the 4-A classification. Wrestlers receiving first team honors have a GPA of 3.5 or above. ...[More]
Sombatchareun competes at Junior Olympic State Championship - Mar. 27, 2019
Pleasanton eighth-grader Allee Sombatchareun competed in the 2019 USA Gymnastics, Junior Olympic, State Championship on March 15-17. The event was held at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park. Sombatchareun did well in the competition as she placed second overall...[More]
State All Academic honors go to Jayhawk wrestling - Mar. 27, 2019
The Jayhawk wrestling team earned multiple state All Academic honors. The Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association chooses the awards, and this year Jayhawk earned All Academic first team as a team. This award is given to teams that at least have seven wrestlers and have an average GPA of...[More]
Our Story Our Legacy: Prairie View freshmen experience book authorship, publication - Mar. 27, 2019
Our Story Our Legacy: Prairie View freshmen experience book authorship, publication Prairie View ninth-grade language arts students each received a new class-wide paperback book last week. Its author(s)? Themselves. Pam Dunlop’s students...[More]
Wind farm meeting Thursday in La Cygne - Mar. 27, 2019
A second meeting with keynote speaker and former Fox weatherman Mike Thompson is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in La Cygne at the La Cygne Elementary School gym. The first such meeting was held in Mound City earlier in the month with over 170 attending. This...[More]
Bully Pulpit - The sound of heads exploding - Mar. 27, 2019
There is an iconic sentence said by Robert Duvall in the movie “Apocalypse Now” stating how “he loves the smell of napalm in the morning. Well, that sentence, or a derivative of it, echoed in my head as I thought of the sound of exploding heads after the Robert Mueller report...[More]
