Fatality crash on K31 - Jul. 31, 2019
A fatal accident occurred on Kansas Highway 31 approximately 2 1/2 miles west of Blue Mound at approximately 9:20 p.m. Monday, July 29. According to reports filed by the Kansas Highway Patrol, Edward W. Lewis, 56, Blue Mound, was eastbound on K-31 on his 2007 Harley Davidson...[More]
Claim Your Campus coming to county in 2020 - Jul. 31, 2019
Local pastors in La Cygne have been praying for something big to happen for students for years – and prayer was answered when the group Claim Your Campus put Youthfront, outside of La Cygne, on their map after organizing a nationwide rally coming next July 4. La Cygne Christian...[More]
Commissioners say no to nursing home in budget - Jul. 31, 2019
Appearing before the County Commissioners at their Monday meeting, Jessy Willard, owner of the former Prescott Country View Nursing Home building, hoped to add a budget for a future nursing home to the 2020 approved Linn County budget, but the commissioners told him again that they needed...[More]
La Cygne councilman petitions elected peers about sewer backup - Jul. 24, 2019
A La Cygne councilman has been asked to bring documentation of a sewer backup in his home earlier this month to the next regular council meeting. After a 30-minute presentation and discussion last Wednesday, July 17, consensus was for James Thies to provide photographs of the...[More]
Charge upgraded to murder in the first in Butler case - Jul. 24, 2019
Bates County prosecutor Hugh C. Jenkins has filed an amended charge of murder in the first degree against Samantha L. McCoy in Bates County Circuit Court in Butler, Mo., on Monday, July 22. The amended charge is upgraded from the original complaint filed on May 2, in which McCoy...[More]
County Attorney elaborates on budget increase - Jul. 24, 2019
Says contract attorney not county employee – no benefits After asking for a $50,000 increase in his 2020 budget, County Attorney James Brun returned to the County Commissioners at their Monday meeting to further explain the request. He began by telling them that...[More]
Three injured in one-vehicle rollover on Paine Road - Jul. 24, 2019
Emergency responders, Linn County sheriff’s deputies and Jonathan Raines, Kansas Highway Patrol trooper, were called to the scene of a one-vehicle rollover accident on Paine Road near 575 Road at approximately 10 a.m. Monday, July 22. Upon arrival they found a 2003 Ford...[More]
Sen. Jerry Moran answers questions of constituents - Jul. 17, 2019
Greeting the audience of nearly 20 at the La Cygne Community Building Monday, U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran did it from his wheelchair after a hiking accident that occurred in Phoenix, an accident that took his tour of the Mexican border off his list for the time being. Moran began his listening...[More]
Mound City man dies in Wyoming wreck - Jul. 17, 2019
Christopher Otto, 38, of Mound City, was killed in a vehicular accident on Interstate 80 in Wyoming on Thursday, July 11. According to area reports, Otto was traveling westbound east of Rawlins, Wyo., near milepost 233 when he encountered a construction zone crossover. While...[More]
Stakeholders hear intersection concepts - Jul. 17, 2019
Engineer lays out preliminary La Cygne project options Property owners near La Cygne’s intersection of Kansas Highway 152 and Industrial Road heard concepts about the point’s future widening at a July 8 town hall. Jason Hoskinson, professional engineer and corporate...[More]
