January 2023

Around Linn County

GriefShare Meetings held at Moms Breaking the Silence Center Moms Breaking the Silence, a nonprofit organization in Linn County dedicated to suicide awareness and prevention, holds GriefShare meetings at the office center on Monday nights at 6 p.m. The center is located at 201 N. Main Street, Brookfield.

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BHS Wrestlers Dominate Marshall Tournament

Take 11 personal titles as boys earn crown, girls second MARSHALL — With an overpowering show of force in having half of the individual champions, Brookfield High School’s wrestling Bulldogs handily earned the team championship of last Saturday’s 13-schools Marshall Tournament. The strong Lady Bulldogs squad, which had brought home ninth place from a massive (82-schools) tournament at Columbia: Battle the last weekend of 2022, nearly made it a clean BHS sweep of the Marshall team crowns.

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Marceline Hoops Girls Emerge from Tourney on Wins Streak

Tigers continue quest for first 2022-23 victory Marceline High School’s varsity basketball teams segued from one tournament right into another this week, following last week’s mixed-results participation in the Salisbury Invitational with competition this week in the 63rd Milan Invitational. Both the third-seeded Lady Tigers (7-4) and eighth-seeded Tigers (0-10) saw first-round action at Milan Monday – the girls facing Novinger and the boys top seed Putnam County.

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Tamara Lynn Owens

Tamara Lynn Owens of Linn, Mo. passed away peacefully on January 1st.Daughter of Maynard and Virginia Owens. Tamara was a one of a kind person, who brought love and laughter…

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