Third Annual Turkey Trot 5K Run/Walk to benefit Grady’s Kids April 9 - Apr. 5, 2017
The Turkey Trot 5K Run, which will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 9, is set to benefit Grady’s Kids this year. This is the third year for the event, which begins at Wicked Outfitters at 22802 Valley Road just east of the La Cygne exit on U.S. Highway 69. To see the full article, check out...[More]
Email billing now available for Pleasanton utility customer - Apr. 5, 2017
The city of Pleasanton now offers email billing to their water utility customers, allowing customers to go paperless. According to City Clerk Teresa Whitaker, a customer who wishes to go to email billing simply needs to supply the city with their email address, and their future bills will go directly...[More]
Overpumping Mound City Lake results in $2,000 state fine - Apr. 5, 2017
Mound City Mayor Mat Casner updated the City Council Monday night, explaining that the city had received a contract revision with Public Wholesale Water Supply District No. 13 that states PWWSD No. 13 can tap into Mound City Lake if necessary.As a result of PWWSD No. 13 tapping into the lake, the city...[More]
William J. “Bill†Kelly II 07-26-1941 to 03-27-2017 - Apr. 4, 2017
William J. “Bill” Kelly II, age 75, of Blue Mound, Kan., passed away on Monday, March 27, 2017, at Northpoint Skilled Nursing Center, Paola, Kan.Funeral services were held on Saturday, April 1, at the Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel, Garnett, with burial in the Sunny Slope Cemetery,...[More]
Betty Jo Mitchell 09-08-1929 to 03-09-2017 - Apr. 4, 2017
Betty Jo Mitchell, age 87, Blue Mound, Kan., passed away on Thursday, March 9, 2017, at the Olathe Medical Center surrounded by all of her loved family. She was born on Sept. 8, 1929, in Mapleton, Kan., the daughter of Scott and Gladys Lucas Northway.She attended grade school at Xenia and graduated from...[More]
Patricia “Pat†K. Roche 01-11-1947 to 03-27-2017 - Apr. 4, 2017
Patricia “Pat” K. Roche, age 70, of Louisburg, Kan., passed away March 27, 2017, at St. Luke’s South Hospital in Overland Park, Kan. She was born in Springfield, Mo., on Jan. 11, 1947, the daughter of Martin and Ruby (Reeves) Walsh.She was united in marriage on Sept. 2, 1967, at St....[More]
Dale Allen DeHoff 08-26-1951 to 03-29-2017 - Apr. 4, 2017
Dale’s life began on Aug. 26, 1951, in Kansas City, Kan., son of Fred Martin and Martha Kathryn Armbruster DeHoff Jr. They lived in La Cygne, Kan., where he grew up and attended public school. Dale loved the Dallas Cowboys, concerts and sticking around to get the star musician’s autograph....[More]
Exchange student reunites with classmates, teachers - Mar. 29, 2017
Seventeen years ago Rangsit Makarukpinyo, known as Oat to his friends and classmates here, came to Jayhawk-Linn High School (JLHS) as a foreign exchange student from Thailand.He attended JLHS for the 2000-2001 school year, staying the first semester with his first host family, Wayne and Dolly Jones,...[More]
Bully Pulpit: Frustration - Mar. 29, 2017
I’ve always viewed myself as an average American – I’m usually not on the extreme of any view, probably more conservative than anything, but lately I’m finding myself increasingly frustrated with politics in Washington, D.C.I’m feeling frustration with a government that...[More]
La Cygne Lake has new record bass - Mar. 29, 2017
SUBMITTED PHOTO Jeremy Conway from Lawrence sets a La Cygne Lake record for the largemouth bass he caught on March 18. The bass weighed a new lake record of 10 lbs. 15 ozs. Bass fishing, especially big bass, is currently good at the lake as a 9 lbs. bass was caught that week as well....[More]
