Yearly Archives: 2015

The Wooden Spoon by Shelly Rankin – 3/5/15

The Wooden Spoon by Shelly Rankin – 3/5/15
Calling all lazy moms and dads. Okay. Lazy is the wrong word. Calling all efficient moms and dads and eaters of food in general. Would you rather make a pan of bars rather than dozens of cookies because you only have to watch the oven once rather than countless times to ensure you’re not burning scrumptious...
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Repurposed barn now houses art instead of animals

Repurposed barn now houses art instead of animals
With art woven into Diana Scandridge’s life story, it’s only fitting the rural Sully resident feels called to minister to others through her own art studio. Growing up, Diana said she was “that child who was always drawing.” [caption id="attachment_322253" align="alignright" width="300"]Bob and Diana Scandridge have transformed an old cattle barn into... </div> <a href=Read more

Seven Division I ratings, seven advance to state

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

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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