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After a historically wet September, harvest is underway northwest of Sully on a sunny afternoon on Monday, Oct. 5. Central Iowa farmers are finally getting in the fields after weeks of nearly non-stop rain delayed the start of harvest. With soggy September in the record books, farmers are looking ahead with plenty of concerns on the...

Cori Fisk and her heifer, Good as it Gets x Paradox Katie, are back in the show ring and reaping accolades at the World Beef Expo in Wisconsin. The duo placed fourth overall in the Intermediate Showman division and named Reserve Division Maintainer.  Cori Fisk, daughter of Josh and Valerie Fisk of rural Searsboro and a...

Two family-owned funeral homes with deep roots in the Pella and Sully areas are coming together. Garden Chapel Funeral Home has merged with Van Dyk Duven Funeral Home, bringing two families who have spent generations caring for local families as one partnership while continuing the same commitment to personal, compassionate service that the communities have come...