What if...active-shooter training: Anatomy of school safety - Aug. 27, 2014
School safety isn’t just something that you hope happens – it’s something that comes about with lots of planning, strategizing and investing in the future. And, two years after the wheels were put in motion to practice a countywide active shooter scenario, many people left with lots...[More]
Joseph Stanley Melton - 7-17-1934 to 7-4-2014 - Aug. 27, 2014
Joseph “Stan” Stanley Melton, 79, of Milliken, Colo., passed away July 4, 2014, at Medical Center of the Rockies.He was born July 17, 1934 in Chelsea, Okla., to Bert Clarence and Jessie (Bible) Melton. Stan grew up in Chelsea and graduated from Chelsea High School. On April 2, 1954, in Bartlesville,...[More]
Merlin L. Ball - 03-10-1921 to 08-23-2014 - Aug. 27, 2014
Merlin L. Ball, 93, a former resident of Blue Mound, Kan., and more recently of Osawatomie, Kan., passed away Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. He was born March 10, 1921, at Blue Mound, Kan., the son of Forrest and Dora Price Ball.He served his country during World War II in the United States Army Air Corps....[More]
Allison Butler to be Swedes Women’s Basketball manager - Aug. 27, 2014
Allison Butler, La Cygne, is the latest addition to the Bethany College women’s basketball program. Head Coach Brett Morehouse announced her addition for the 2014-2015 academic season. “Allison is going to be a great addition to our staff. She brings energy and enthusiasm to our program and...[More]
Author visits Linn County Museum to discuss the KC Monarchs trip to Pleasanton - Aug. 27, 2014
On Saturday, Aug. 23 the Linn County Museum had a special guest speaker, Phil S. Dixon. Dixon is from Kansas City, Kan., and currently resides in Belton, Mo., and is a leading expert in baseball history, particularly African-American baseball history which he has covered for 35 years. Dixon has written...[More]
Deputy thwarts Blue Mound burglary attempt - Aug. 27, 2014
What could have gone down as a burglary, went on the books as an arrest made in an attempted burglary.Linn County Sheriff’s Deputy Bobby Johnson was patrolling on Thursday, Aug. 21, in Blue Mound when he passed a house where the occupant, Roger Firebaugh, was already in the custody of the Sheriff’s...[More]
2 arrested on burglary charges in Pleasanton - Aug. 27, 2014
A disturbance call in Pleasanton on Friday, Aug. 15, resulted in the arrest of two suspects on burglary charges.Pleasanton Police Officer Tristan Snyder said that a disturbance between Pleasanton residents Michael Lane and Demetrius Cornelius resulted when Cornelius borrowed $20 from Lane’s wife...[More]
Kayak enthusiast dies before accomplishing childhood dream - Aug. 27, 2014
As an update for readers who may have been curious about the kayaker that the Linn County News ran a story on last summer, on the afternoon of July 29, Robert Schmid died in an industrial work-related accident at the A.E. Woods Fish Hatchery in San Marcos, Texas, where he worked as the hatchery manager...[More]
Mildred ‘Charlene’ Curran - 02-05-1939 to 08-11-2014 - Aug. 27, 2014
Charlene Curran, 75, of Bartlesville, Okla., passed away Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, at the Journey Home Hospice House of Bartlesville.Mildred Charlene Artz was born Feb. 5, 1939, in Bartlesville to Charles Isaac Artz and Lahoma Hughes. The family lived in Bartlesville until Charlene was six, then they moved...[More]
Two local librarians complete intensive SEKLS training - Aug. 20, 2014
Blue Mound Library District #3 Director Brenda Curtis, and Pleasanton Lincoln Library District #5 Director Wendy Morlan, recently graduated from the Southeast Kansas Library System’s training program for new library directors named APPLE (Applied Public Library Education). APPLE is intensive,...[More]