Lynnville-Sully’s 2022-23 FFA members are: Front row, from left, president Alyssa Bassett, vice president Conner Maston, secretary Majesta Vos, treasurer Morgan Jones, sentinel Garrett Jansen, reporter Ellyse Merten, student advisor James Gruver; second row, Bryce Richards, Davis Utech, Makenna Schnell, Allie Van Wyk, Brooke Conover; third row, Hendrick Lowry, Kyler Agan, Tyke Vander Wilt, Noah...
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‘A slice of home’ By Simone Bates
Oodles of Noodles
Do you have a favorite comfort food, a well-loved recipe, or a meal from your childhood? This is the time of year when the wind is often howling outside and snow and ice coat just about everything. But inside, it’s the perfect weather for comfort food.
Someone else must agree with me, because March...
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Hawks’ road to state closes with three-point loss
Above, the Lynnville-Sully Hawks walk back to the bench after a disappointing 56-53 loss to third-ranked Gladbrook-Reinbeck in the Class 1A Region 6 substate game.
It’s difficult to beat a team three times in one season, but the Hawks did just that when they met up with the North Mahaska Warhawks in the Class 1A District...
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Nine Hawks named to SICL All-Conference teams
The South Iowa Cedar League has released All-Conference selections for the 2022-23 season. Five Lynnville-Sully boys varsity players and four girls varsity players were honored. L-S Head Boys Basketball Coach Nick Harthoorn was named SICL Coach of the Year.
First team all-conference honors on the boys’ side went to senior Conner Maston and junior Klayton Van...
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The DeeZee Spirit By Darrell Zegers, March 2, 2023
I had no idea I would live to be a geezer. I have arrived at that age.
The one good thing I thought I would be done with was visits with highway patrolmen. I got a ticket recently and found out they will write tickets to old, awful drivers like me!
When I got pulled over, I...
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Ellowyn Marie
Joe and Krista Blom of Wauwatosa, WI, are the parents of a daughter, Ellowyn Marie, born Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023, at 6:32 a.m. She weighed 8 pounds. Her brother is J.J., age 2 1/2.
Grandparents are Loren and Shawna Fopma of Pella and Mike and Luann Blom of Pella.
Great-grandparents are Delores Van Rees, Loren Vander Wilt,...
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