Darin Sean Morvant, 51, a resident of Farming-ton, AR, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, in Fayetteville, AR. He was born Feb. 7, 1970, in Kansas City, MO, the son of Joseph Morvant and Diana Doolan.
Darin spent most of his childhood in Montrose, MO, and most of his adult life in Sully, where he and...
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Virgil Landers, 73
Virgil Landers, 73, of New Sharon, passed away Wednesday evening, Nov. 3, 2021 at UnityPoint Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines. Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 8, at Union Mills Christian Church. Burial was in Union Mills Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Union Mills...
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Nov. 2 City, School Election results (unofficial)
Voters went to the polls last Tuesday, Nov. 2 to cast ballots for city and school board elections. The Jasper and Poweshiek County Auditors have released the following unofficial results:
For Lynnville-Sully School Board, three candidates vied for two seats. Incumbents Jer Schnell and Gerry Van Dyke were reelected with 185 (42.43%) and 144 (33.03%) votes,...
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Area communities coordinate Halloween fun on Saturday
The residents of Killduff, Lynnville, and Sully turned on their porch lights and loaded up on treats for Halloween events on Saturday, Oct. 30. Local families had plenty of fun activities to choose from as several communities celebrated Halloween fun on Saturday.
Lynnville’s fall festivities started in the afternoon with the library’s fall festival, a pumpkin...
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Lynnville-Sully’s Family Literacy Night aims to encourage a love of reading
A first-of-its-kind Family Literacy Night drew over 140 K-5 students and their families to Lynnville-Sully School for a night of reading activities on Tuesday evening, Oct. 26.
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Katie Kramer and her daughter Quinn browse the free book table. Every child in attendance was encouraged to...
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Katie Kramer and her daughter Quinn browse the free book table. Every child in attendance was encouraged to...
Iowa Legislature passes new congressional redistricting maps
The Iowa State Legislature passed new congressional redist-ricting maps on Thursday, Oct. 28, which will be in effect from 2022-2032.
Every 10 years, congressional lines are redrawn to reflect population changes according to the 2020 Census. In Iowa, the process is conducted by Iowa Legislative Services Agency, a non-partisan committee. The first round of proposed maps...
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“A Slice of Home” By Simone Bates
TV Dinners
“Honey, I’m home!” Even though Iowa was never in any official lockdown, and even though both Derek and I were considered essential workers and never knew a day off throughout the pandemic, we still managed to make the couch our most-visited destination for the last 18 months. We unashamedly and unabashedly love television....