Sophia Ann Swank, 94, of Knoxville and formerly of Sully, passed away Monday, Apr. 28, 2014, at the Comfort House of Pella. Funeral arrangements are pending with the Garden Chapel Funeral Home of Sully....
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L-S Community Service Day
Every Lynnville-Sully K-12 student and staff member joined forces and rolled up their sleeves for the sixth annual Community Service Day on Thursday, Apr. 17. The student body and staff members split up into groups and were sent to locations all over the local community and beyond – Sully, Lynnville, Killduff, Galesburg, Searsboro, Prairie City,...
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Area Easter Egg Hunts
Saturday, Apr. 19, was full of sunshine, 70-degree temps, and lots of smiles for the annual Easter Egg Hunts held in the community.
Reasnor community members hosted an egg hunt Saturday morning for children in the Reasnor park. The Easter bunny rode atop a Reasnor firetruck around town prior to the start of the hunt, and...
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Spring has sprung!
The mercury is forecasted to hit 70 a couple of times this week. But one doesn’t need to look at the thermometer to know that spring has sprung in the Lynnville-Sully area; a simple walk around town and a drive into the country on Tuesday, Apr. 22, revealed plenty of signs that the winter woes...
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L-S Board approves Manatt’s bid for new track, 3.51% pay increase for employees
The Lynnville-Sully Board of Education meeting on Monday, Apr. 21, was led by board president John Terpstra and opened with a public hearing required for the Proposed 2014-2015 Innovative Calendar and Early Start Waiver which 95 percent of the Iowa schools start before the first full week after Sept. 1. No one was heard for...
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McIntosh returns to SCS after reading goal reached
During a visit in January, KCCI 8 news anchor Marcus McIntosh promised the students he would return to SCS if the seventh and eighth graders reached their 20 million word challenge.
Last Tuesday, Apr. 15, he fulfilled that promise.
Not only did the seventh and eighth graders reach their Accelerated Reader goal, they surpassed it. By McIntosh’s...
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Improvements made at PC meet, L-S girls finish fifth
The Lynnville-Sully girls track team faced some bigger competition at the Pella Christian Coed Invitational on Tuesday, Apr. 15. The Hawks came away with a fifth-place finish out of nine teams total.
Coach Darin Arkema wanted his girls to focus on using the tough competition to push them to strong performances.
“I wasn’t so concerned about what...
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