Yearly Archives: 2015

Team’s season ender: No. 2 SEW overcomes L-S wrestlers

Team’s season ender: No. 2 SEW overcomes L-S wrestlers
A ticket to the state team duals was on the line, but the Lynnville-Sully grapplers just couldn’t match the Southeast Warren Warhawks last Tuesday, Feb. 10. The Hawks fell to Southeast Warren (SEW) 59-22 in the semi-final round at regional duals, hosted by the Warhawks, then ranked No. 2 in the state. “The kids knew it...
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PC teams end regular season, girls advance in regional tourney

The regular season came to a close for both Pella Christian varsity basketball teams last week. Their last two conference games were not easy as the Eagles took on Grinnell on Tuesday, Feb. 10, and Dallas Center-Grimes on Thursday, Feb. 12. The girls suffered two losses to end the regular season while the boys managed to...
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L-S boys squeeze past Warhawks, earn third in SICL

The Lynnville-Sully boys basketball team traveled into Warhawk territory at New Sharon last Friday night in their final South Iowa Cedar League Conference game of regular season play. The Hawks controlled the entire game, but barely held off a determined second-half surge by the Warhawks. The Hawks pulled off a 53-48 victory. Sophomore Tyler Van Zante...
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The Wooden Spoon by Shelly Rankin – 2-19-15

I often get asked the question, why do you like to cook? (CUE OMINOUS MUSIC) “I’ve been cooking long before anyone paid me to cook anything. I didn’t do it to be cool. I didn’t do it to make a statement. It’s not about farm to table, but it’s not about being wasteful either. You just got...
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Remember When – 2/19/15

35 years ago (1980) Four Lynnville-Sully High School wrestlers advanced to the district meet after their stellar performances at sectionals. Glenn Lewis at 112 pounds, Joel Henning at 132 pounds, and Kerry Bryan at 145 pounds were crowned champions at the sectional meet at Eddyville. Nick Figland at 119 pounds finished runner-up in his weight class....
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Try the tomorrow morning concept

Thank you to everyone for all the kind words about the newspaper awards we won and reported in last week’s issue. I especially like the people who said the judges were right on for recognizing us for our weekly efforts because we do a great job each week. But we can’t just sit back and...
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Letter to the editor: Common Core meeting Monday

To the editor, A few months ago, I was talking to a friend who is involved in education about the latest things I had heard regarding the national common core education standards. I had never heard anything positive about it, so as I discovered new bits of information, I would pass them on to him. He...
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