Court clarifies Allen bond conditions - Jan. 26, 2022
Defendant may be on 160 acres, but no driving A Parker man charged with the second-degree vehicular murder of his mother will be allowed to access a 160-acre contiguous square residential plot in Franklin County as part of a bond condition. At a state’s motion Zoom videoconference hearing...[More]
Capitol Happenings…Just a Thought-Week 2 - Jan. 25, 2022
Action on the House Floor… We were introduced to HB2477 to extend the Governor’s executive orders, which is “AN ACT concerning governmental response to COVID-19; relating to health and healthcare; renewing provisions of law authorizing expanded...[More]
Legislative Update - Jan. 25, 2022
January 21, 2022 Wildfires Result in Possible Tax Change In December 2021, several communities in Kansas were devastated by wildfires. The high winds, storms, and fires resulted in loss of life, homes, and livelihoods. In response, Senate Bill (SB) 318 passed the Senate 35...[More]
Stainbrook’s store sold; Chad & Tara Allen new owners - Jan. 19, 2022
Approximately three years after he bought Stainbrook’s Auto, Home, Farm & Feed, La Cygne, Jeff Yowell sold the store to Chad and Tara Allen – again bringing store ownership under the wings of the Stainbrooks as Tara Allen is the daughter of Terry Stainbrook and Chad Allen the son of Bill...[More]
Truck service center, tow lot approved - Jan. 19, 2022
Two conditional use permits (CUPs) and one zoning exception were approved Tuesday, Jan. 11, by the Linn County Planning Commission including CUP CUP 21-07 requested by RB Towing & Recovery to build a towing and recovery lot, plus much more, located south of Fabcon in Pleasanton at 9215 Thomas Road. Ron...[More]
School superintendents meet with commissioners on SRO cost - Jan. 19, 2022
Following back and forth meetings with their own school boards and discussion amongst the Linn County Commissioners concerning a proposal by the county to charge $12,000 per school resource officer, school superintendents met with the commissioners Tuesday to clarify the issue. USD 362 Superintendent...[More]
USD 362 tables SRO offer - Jan. 12, 2022
Board will wait for County Commission meeting feedback Prairie View Unified School District 362 will table until next month’s 7 p.m. Feb. 14 meeting any decision on a Linn County Commission agreement proposal to fund the Linn County Sheriff’s Department school resource officer (SRO)...[More]
LCSO provides numbers for 2021 - Jan. 12, 2022
The Linn County Sheriff’s Office distributed year-end numbers for their department for 2021 on Jan. 6. The report shows that the jail had 372 inmates booked in over the course of the year, 289 males and 83 females. There were 94,283 contacts between jail staff and inmates being held and 19,710...[More]
New solution offered to teacher shortage - Jan. 12, 2022
During the Jan. 10 meeting the Jayhawk USD 346 board of education learned from Superintendent Shawn Thomas that schools are once again dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks and that the state has offered a solution to the lack of substitutes for teachers who are out with COVID-19. Thomas told the board that,...[More]
Governor Laura Kelly Orders Linn County Flags Lowered in Honor of Sheriff Officer Sergeant Stacy Murrow - Jan. 5, 2022
TOPEKA-- In accordance with Executive Order #20-30, Governor Laura Kelly ordered flags throughout Linn County to fly half-staff from sunup to sundown on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 in honor of Linn County Sheriff’s Sergeant Stacy Murrow who died from COVID-19-related medical complications. “I...[More]
