Wildcat baseball to host 25th annual tournament

Area high school baseball fans looking for games later this week need not look any further than Linn High School and their 25th Annual Baseball Tournament. Six teams will be split into two pools …
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LINN — Hundreds of people attended the grand opening of State Tech’s Osage View on Thursday, April 11.     Festivities began at 4 p.m., at which time the facility was open …
Dylan J. Minor, 27, of Chamois, pleaded guilty to production of child pornography on July 20, 2023. Minor was recently sentenced by U.S. District Judge Brian C. Wimes to 15 years in federal prison. …
CHAMOIS — Seventeen members of the Chamois and Morrison Volunteer Fire Departments, as well as one employee of Chamois Ag Supply, completed Basic Grain Engulfment Rescue training on Saturday, …
LINN — State Tech hosted the Missouri SkillsUSA State Leadership and Skills Conference last week, for the 21st consecutive year.     Approximately 2,000 kids flooded campus from …
Linn Aldermen agreed March 24 to pay for a property survey of the St. George Catholic Church Cemetery at the request of the cemetery board to determine property lines. The St George Cemetery …
Commission News
OSAGE COUNTY   — Osage County Health Department (OCHD) Administrator Kim Sallin and Osage County Sheriff Mike Bonham told commissioners last week they were aware of threats to mail …
OSAGE COUNTY — Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) Transportation Planner Joanie Prenger met with commissioners on Thursday, Sept. 18. They showed her their evaluations of the seven …
OSAGE COUNTY — Osage County Commissioners took an unusual step, meeting an hour early Tuesday, June 27. The purpose of convening was to officially approve a ballot measure providing for …

Geneva Helstein

Geneva Aileen Helstein, 92, Vienna, passed away Friday, April 5, 2024, in Crab Apple Village in St. Clair. She was born Aug. 3, 1931, to the late Hugh and Ruth (Sexton) Pidcock in Salem. …

Marianne Matheis

Marianne Elizabeth Matheis, 79, Linn, passed away Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at her residence.  She was born Aug. 5, 1944, to the late Joseph and Antoinette (Baudek) Wuchte in Chicago, Ill. …

Edward Keller III

It is with great sadness that the family announces the passing of Edward Wesley Keller, III, 77, Linn who passed away Thursday, April 4, 2024, at his son’s home surrounded by family. He …

Sports

CMS Pirate track places fifth at Vienna

VIENNA — Running on a 300-meter track. That is what Chamois’ Pirates and Lady Pirates got to do last Wednesday at Vienna High School during the annual Vienna Middle School (VMS) …

Fatima track posts top-five team finishes at Eldon

Winning three events and scoring points in 23 others, Fatima’s Lady Comet and Comet track teams both placed in the top five of their respective team standings Thursday during the Maroon and …
Curtis Deeken makes a tag on a close play at home.

Linn opens baseball 1-2

Linn opened the baseball season with a 5-3 win over Eugene on Saturday after losing earlier in the day and on Friday. “Beating a very good Eugene team was a highlight for us on …
Sports

Robinson, Robertson top All-Conference list

Fatima seniors Levi Robinson and Alli Robertson earned the most votes among Show-Me Conference coaches to earn MVP honors. Easton Haslag also made the first team, while Noah Hall of Linn, …

Lady Comets see season end at the quarterfinal game

Fatima fans get loud in support of the Lady Comets at Friday’s Class 3 quarterfinal game at Fair Grove.

Strope wins fourth straight district title; Comets earn second place as team

Fatima senior Cody Strope became the Comets’ first four-time district wrestling champion at Saturday’s Class 1, District 2 tournament at Butler. “That’s impressive, …
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Heather MacDonald has degrees from Yale, Cambridge and Stanford Law School and recently wrote a piece for Hillsdale College on how America is being destroyed, because racial equity has become the …
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