The Lynnville-Sully individual speech team swept the ratings Feb. 28 at the district individual speech contest. Seven students on the team earned and brought home seven Division I and one Division II ratings. Coaches Mrs. Deb Merrill and Ms. Melinda Hardin kept counting the ratings as they came in for the day.
“Amazingly different turnout than...
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Lynnville-Sully School Board work session Monday reveals possible position reductions
In a somber 30-minute work session on Monday night, Mar. 2, the Lynnville-Sully Board of Education heard L-S Superintendent Shane Ehresman’s and L-S Business Manager Karla DeCook’s recommendations on where $150,000 could possibly be cut from the general fund expenditures budget for fiscal year 2015-16. With 23 guests in attendance-the majority L-S staff members, the...
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Pastor’s Pen – 3/5/15
Recently, I made a call to a farm home with a multitude of cats bunched up around the front door of that house.
They consisted of fur balls huddled together against the cold winter wind. They had picked out the warmest spot that caught what heat of the sun existed on that January afternoon.
There was also...
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Season ender: Sigourney slashes Hawks’ state dreams
Thursday’s district regional final pitting the L-S boys against Sigourney could have gone either way. Heading into the night, the teams were each 1-1 in their record against each other this season. The Hawks had lost to Sigourney, 66-51, when they hosted them last December, but at the beginning of February, the Hawks beat the...
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Hawk boys fly past Moulton-Udell Eagles in semifinal
The Moulton-Udell Eagles may have had the home-court advantage, but they didn’t have the shooting required to top the Lynnville-Sully Hawks on Tuesday, Feb. 24. The L-S boys soared to a 66-48 victory in the district semifinal against M-U.
The Hawks jumped out to a 20-13 lead in the first eight minutes of play, and by...
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Eagles to state: PC boys down DMC, 48-41, in substate game
Three W’s in a row did the trick for the Pella Christian boys basketball team. The Eagles won two district games and the substate 6 basketball game to secure their ticket to state. The deciding game came against Des Moines Christian at Ankeny on Saturday, Feb. 28, as PC topped DMC 48-41.
Heading into the substate...
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Lucas Roland, Maxwell Mintle place at AAU State
Lynnville-Sully wrestling had four youth vying for a shot to stand on the podium at the AAU State Tournament last weekend. A total of 1,506 third- through eighth-grade wrestlers attended the state tourney at Wells Fargo Arena, which is the largest AAU State Tournament in the country. Just qualifying for state is an honor as...
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