Yearly Archives: 2014

L-S boys hold off Tri-County, come up short at Sigourney

L-S boys hold off Tri-County, come up short at Sigourney
The Lynnville-Sully baseball team sits at a .500 on the season with an 8-8 overall record after splitting in the last two games. Tri-County Winning by a wild one run, the L-S baseball team reeled a big win in a great week of baseball. The Hawks played at Thornburg against the Tri-County Trojans on Tuesday, June 24....
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Vos selected for elite all-star team

Vos selected for elite all-star team
Lynnville-Sully senior catcher Becca Vos recently earned the honor of being one of only six Class 1A athletes selected to play in the Senior All-Star Games put on by the Iowa Girls Coaches Association. The last L-S player to have earned this honor was Danielle Samson, a 2011 L-S graduate. The 30th Annual All-Star Games...
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Tough field of cars for Team Co-Line/Goalsetter

The Co-Line/Goalsetter-spon-sored alcohol funny car drag racing team was back in action last weekend at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 17th annual O'Reilly Auto Parts Route 66 NHRA Nationals presented by Super Start Batteries in Joliet, IL. The team qualified for the JEGS All-Star race and competed in that as qualifying rounds for...
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$3,000 raised through night with the Menace

$3,000 raised through night with the Menace
A total of $3,000 was raised through Megan's Legacy Night with the Des Moines Menace on Saturday, June 28. The money came from ticket proceeds sold by Megan’s Legacy prior to the soccer match against the Thunder Bay Chill. The Menace beat the Chill, 1-0. A blood drive was also held earlier that day at...
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Garden Thyme Club updates gardens at Deep Rock Station

Garden Thyme Club updates gardens at Deep Rock Station
The square in Sully is brimming with the activity of the Jasper County Freedom Rock project, rejuvenating the park, and the opening of the Deep Rock Ice Cream Shoppe. But have you noticed the gardens north of the Deep Rock Station? The Deep Rock Station and the gardens are a project that began in 1998 when...
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Remember When – 7/3/14

35 years ago (1979) Marty Vander Molen became the new operator of Sully Stockyards.  Russ Vande Krol had operated the business for the past six years. Earlier, Vande Krol was part-time with Arie Van Weelden when it was operated as a branch of Sully Co-op. The co-op kept ownership of the property and leased it to...
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Press INKlings: Looking skyward, remember our independence

To our credit, we Americans are still doing our own thing to re-declare our independence each Fourth of July, in part by spending it largely as we please. We don’t hold forth, over our potato salad and grilled burgers, about what this day signifies. Like those truths our forefathers held, it seems self-evident to us. Fireworks...
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