Resolution passes for USD 362 bond vote - Jan. 29, 2020
Unified School District 362 will hold a bond election April 7. As a result of a 4-0 vote at a special meeting last Wednesday, Jan. 22, the issue – $7.5 million for new construction and renovations at the 50-year-old Prairie View High School building –will appear on...[More]
Secrests win Super Bowl LIV tickets - Jan. 29, 2020
Fifty years ago, Waldo and Edwarda Cox won Chief tickets to Super Bowl IV, and the Chiefs won over the Minnesota Vikings. Those tickets had a face value of $15. Cox Motor Co. owner Jesse Secrest is hoping lightning strikes twice, as he and wife Kathy have won Super Bowl LIV tickets and...[More]
Prairie View High to sport shooting team - Jan. 22, 2020
Board approves in time for this spring’s trap season Prairie View High will be represented in a state trap shooting league this spring. On a 6-0 vote, with Nicolas Philpott absent, the Unified School District 362 board of education approved the activity at its Jan. 13...[More]
Sheriff issues past year’s response numbers - Jan. 22, 2020
At the Tuesday County Commissioners’ meeting, giving a weekly prisoner count of 35 prisoners with 19 housed in county, County Sheriff Kevin Friend reported 197 calls for service, less than last week, “probably due to the cold weather without ice.” He then reported...[More]
Commissioners approve rescue pumper purchases - Jan. 22, 2020
Following the receipt of six rescue pumper truck bids for the Linn County Rural Fire Department, the rural fire board reviewed the bids and chose the Hays Fire and Rescue Sales and Service bid for approval by the County Commissioners. At the commissioners’ Tuesday meeting, Fire...[More]
Eldon Lanham inducted into Kansas Fairs Hall of Fame - Jan. 22, 2020
Long-time Linn County Fair Board member Eldon Lanham was recently inducted into the Kansas Fairs and Festivals Hall of Fame during the association’s annual meeting held January 10-12 in Topeka. Lanham has been on the Linn County Fair Board for 50 years, serving in many capacities...[More]
Teacher arrested, charged with battery - Jan. 15, 2020
On Jan. 6 charges were filed in Linn County District Court on Pleasanton Elementary School preschool teacher Lea Ann Davenport with one count of battery. The complaint in Case 2020-CR-000002 reads as follows: Count I – battery; physical contact in a rude, insulting, angry manner. That...[More]
Sheriff receives okay to purchase replacement SUV - Jan. 15, 2020
Following an accident that totaled one of the Dodge Durango cruisers purchased by the former sheriff, the County Commissioners approved at their regular Monday meeting the purchase of a new 2020 Ford Explorer built specifically for police duty. Sheriff Kevin Friend said that...[More]
USD 362 prepares resolution vote for bond issue - Jan. 15, 2020
General construction scope to be $7.5 million The board of education for Unified School District 362 will meet in special session next week to decide on a bond-issue resolution. That was the second of two votes on construction projects, primarily for Prairie View High,...[More]
Law enforcement attends Lethality Assessment Protocol training - Jan. 15, 2020
Focuses on domestic violence With statistics stating that half, approximately 1,500, of the homicides that occur each year being committed by a former intimate partner – and a high percentage of the homicides related to domestic violence – the Linn County Attorney’s...[More]
