2025 Girls’ Basketball All County team - Mar. 26, 2025
High school girls’ basketball has concluded for the 2024-25 season and it’s time for the annual All County team. Like the boys’ team, and like most years, choosing players was tough. Plenty of girls from all three schools, Prairie View, Jayhawk Linn and Pleasanton, showed plenty of...[More]
Three Rivers League selects boys’ and girls’ upper division All League basketball teams - Mar. 26, 2025
The Three Rivers League made their upper division All League basketball selections recently with Jayhawk and Pleasanton players earning spots on the boys’ and girls’ teams. The TRL upper division consists of the larger TRL schools which include Jayhawk, Pleasanton, Southeast Cherokee, St....[More]
BULLY PULPIT - Mar. 26, 2025
DOGE findings Well, shockingly, I’m one of those who voted for Donald Trump and the promises that he made and is keeping. That is, me, being one of 80 million Americans who voted for common sense governance of our nation. With that vote, expectantly, is coming pangs of change; kind of like childbirth....[More]
SPECIAL: K-52 resurfacing project will begin soon - Mar. 25, 2025
The week of March 31, the Kansas Department of Transportation plans to begin a resurfacing project on K-52 in Linn County. The 14-mile project area includes two highway sections: from K-31 northeast to the U.S. 69 south junction, and from the U.S. 69 north junction east to the Kansas-Missouri...[More]
Linda Sue Tyson ~ 01-24-1942 to 03-21-2025 - Mar. 25, 2025
Linn County News Published March 26, 2025 Linda was born on Jan. 24, 1942, in Garnett, Kan., to Lester and Almeta Prentice. She was the oldest of three children. Her sisters are Elizabeth (Barnett) and Judy (Scully). Linda grew up near Parker, Kan., and attended the Parker schools. She graduated...[More]
Brent Ross Wheeler ~ July 27, 1956 – March 22, 2025 - Mar. 25, 2025
Linn County News Published March 26, 2025 Brent Ross Wheeler, 68, of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away peacefully on March 22, 2025 surrounded by his loving family. He was born on July 27, 1956 in Fort Scott in the back seat of his parent’s car to Ralph and Mary Elizabeth Simons Wheeler. Brent...[More]
Alice Walker ~ 09-03-1928 to 03-20-2025 - Mar. 25, 2025
Linn County News Published March 26, 2025 After living a full and adventurous life of ninety-six years, Alice Walker of rural Blue Mound passed away on Thursday, March 20, 2025. Alice Amy Frazier was born in Kingston, N.Y., on Sept. 3, 1928, to Olen and Eleanor (Griffes) Frazier. She first...[More]
Colton James McCammon ~ 08-26-2003 to 03-15-2025 - Mar. 20, 2025
Linn County News Published March 26, 2025 Colton James McCammon entered the arms of Jesus on Saturday, March 15, 2025, at the age of 21. He was born on Aug. 26, 2003, in Fort Scott, Kan. His Spiritual birth was Sunday, April 6, 2014, at 11:16 a.m. where he joined his brothers and sisters of...[More]
Jayhawk Linn to present ‘Maid to Order’ for spring play - Mar. 19, 2025
Students from Jayhawk Linn Junior High and High School will present their spring play, ‘Maid to Order’ on Thursday, March 27 and Saturday, March 29. The play, under the direction of faculty member Dawn Carlson, is a comedy set in the mid-to-late 1940s in the Upper East Side of New...[More]
Linn Valley imposes moratorium on new water and sewer construction - Mar. 19, 2025
The Linn Valley City Council held a special meeting on Thursday, March 13 to impose a six-month moratorium on new hook-ups for water and/or sewer service. On a motion by Council Member John Weers, the council approved Ordinance Number 268 suspending the issue of new water and sewer permits due to potential...[More]
