USD 362 sets capacity numbers - Apr. 24, 2024
District now prepares for lottery applications Prairie View Unified School District 362 has set capacity numbers for the 2024-25 school year. At their monthly meeting April 16, the board of education unanimously adopted capacity of 80 students per grade level at the high school, 72 at each...[More]
Pull Tabs for Pound Puppies - Apr. 17, 2024
The City of Pleasanton is raising funds to help make needed renovations and repairs at the city pound. To do so they are collecting tabs from aluminum cans at various businesses in the city. All participating businesses will have collection buckets placed inside...[More]
Linn County Planning Commission proceeds with prohibiting commercial solar fields - Apr. 17, 2024
The Linn County Planning and Zoning Commission began their April 9 meeting by relooking at the Sunshine Meadows preliminary plat that last month was turned down by the commission because of outcries from surrounding neighbors. Sunshine Meadows is proposed to be a housing development south of Parker...[More]
Commissioners send CUP for rock quarry back to P&Z again - Apr. 17, 2024
Stephanie Walker reviewed the reasons she and her family do not want the new quarry, Mulberry Limestone that recently applied for a conditional use permit to do business at near Linn Valley to be located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 69 and 2200 Road. Planning and Zoning Administrator Darin Wilson...[More]
La Cygne to update police gear - Apr. 17, 2024
New purchases to be four body cameras, four tasers The city of La Cygne will be purchasing four body cameras and four tasers for its police department. At their regular meeting April 3 on a 4-0 vote with David Brenneman not present, the council approved the $26,443.40 purchase from Axon Enterprises,...[More]
STARS welding competes at GCCC 2024 competition - Apr. 17, 2024
Brings home first, second and fifth places The Garden City Community College Welding Program held the 2024 Welding Competition for area high school students on Wednesday, Apr. 10, at the GCCC Welding Building in Garden City. Registration began at 8 a.m. with the competition starting at 9 a.m....[More]
Mine Creek Battlefield Foundation to hold music festival - Apr. 10, 2024
The Mine Creek Battlefield Foundation was started in 1995 by Dr. John Spencer. With the help of Arnold Schofield they formed a Foundation to raise money to procure land and save the Battlefield grounds. Through their fundraising efforts the Foundation was able to purchase 320 acres of land. Today...[More]
SEKMH presents outreach program to commissioners - Apr. 10, 2024
The Linn County Commissioners heard from Director Nathan Fawson and Bryan Cook with Southeast Kansas Mental Health (SEKMH) during their regular meeting on Monday, Apr. 8, regarding a new outreach program they have been working on. Fawson told commissioners that SEKMH was formed in the sixties to serve...[More]
Linn Valley residents respond to council appointment - Apr. 10, 2024
At Monday night’s Linn Valley City Council meeting, the first item on the agenda was the appointment of a new council member to fill the vacancy created by the recent resignation of former Council President Brenda Muncy. Mayor Lew Donelson announced his appointment of former Council...[More]
La Cygne sets nuisance abatement hearing - Apr. 10, 2024
Property in question located at 402 S. Broadway La Cygne city leaders have approved a resolution for a future nuisance abatement hearing for property at 402 S. Broadway. The action, Resolution No. 467, at last Wednesday’s regular council meeting, coming on a 4-0 vote with David Brenneman...[More]
