Jayhawk boys’ wrestling sends five to State - Feb. 26, 2025
The Jayhawk boys’ wrestling team traveled to Fredonia on Feb. 22 to compete in the 3-1A Regional C tournament. The Hawks did quite well, as a team as they placed fourth overall out of 26 teams with 98 team points. The top four placers of each weight class qualify for the State tournament in Hays...[More]
Prairie View boys’ wrestling sends three to State - Feb. 26, 2025
The Prairie View boys’ wrestling team traveled to Labette County to compete the 4A Regional B tournament. As a team the Buffalos placed seventh overall out of 16 teams with 74 team points. The top four placers from each weight class qualified for the 4A State tournament in Salina. The Buffalos...[More]
Blu-Jays defeat two Missouri foes - Feb. 26, 2025
Pleasanton basketball finished the regular season with an 11-8 record after wins last week over Hume and Bronaugh, Mo., boys’ teams. The Blu-Jays now move into post-season play. As the No. 5 seed in the 17-school Yates Center Class 2-A region, they will host Eureka, 5-13, at 6 p.m. Thursday. Tim...[More]
BULLY PULPIT - Feb. 26, 2025
Back to work I don’t know how many of my readers have ever seen the James Bond spoof movie, “The Kingsman: The Secret Service,” but the bad guy planted bombs in people’s heads that blew up when a certain button was pushed. Well, the major outcry from government workers about...[More]
Barbara Jean Harbison ~ 10-16-1939 to 02-20-2025 - Feb. 25, 2025
Linn County News Published February 26, 2025 Barbara Jean Harbison, age 85, La Cygne, Kan., passed away Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. She was born on Oct. 16, 1939, in La Cygne, Kan., the daughter of Harry T. and Evelyn Faye Nellsch Bergman. She graduated from La Cygne High School. She worked at...[More]
Jerold Chester Davis ~ 05-13-1937 to 02-19-2025 - Feb. 25, 2025
Linn County News Published February 26, 2025 Jerold Chester Davis, age 87, Hume, Mo., passed away Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. Funeral service will be 11 a.m. Saturday, March 1, 2025, at the Hume Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Underwood Cemetery. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to...[More]
Emma Darlene Peek ~ 05-11-1935 to 02-08-2025 - Feb. 25, 2025
Linn County News Published February 26, 2025 Emma Darlene Peek, age 89 of Neosho, Mo., formerly of Amoret, Mo., died Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, at Freeman West Hospital in Joplin, Mo. She was born May 11, 1935, to Harold Joseph and Juanita May Hoyt Hoaglan in Merwin, Mo. Darlene, the oldest of...[More]
Raymond “Ray” Eugene Holsman ~ 10-08-1944 to 02-18-2025 - Feb. 21, 2025
Linn County News Published February 26, 2025 Raymond “Ray” Eugene Holsman 80 years old of Pleasanton, Kan., entered into eternal rest with his Heavenly Father on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 following a brief illness of cancer. Raymond was able to return home and live out his final days...[More]
Parker dissolves police department--for now - Feb. 19, 2025
Council plans budget workshop to determine its future Parker’s governing council has voted to dissolve its city police department, pending decisions that may follow a future departmental budget workshop. At last Thursday’s monthly meeting, the council voted 3-1 to accept Gary Earley’s...[More]
STARS votes to separate from FSCC for upcoming school year - Feb. 19, 2025
During the meeting of the USD 346 Board of Education on Feb. 10, Superintendent Shawn Thomas reported to the board that during the last board meeting for the Southeast Technical Academy for Rural Students (STARS) vocational school’s board meeting, that board voted to seek separation from Fort Scott...[More]
