December
December is here. There is snow on the ground. The wind is howling. I hate winter. I remember things as I look back over 2008. I’m a senior citizen now. I looked back at several decades of my life.
I haven’t gotten very far in life. I wasted years doing things that were stupid. I didn’t...
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Jovie Beck
Jovie Beck was born Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022, to Cole and Leah Rolffs of West Des Moines. She weighed 4 pounds 12 ounces and measured 18 inches long. She has a brother Perry, age 2.
Grandparents are Scott and Valerie Rolffs of Lynnville and Randy and Brenda Poe of Oskaloosa.
Great-grandparents are Joyce Cline and Roy Poe, both...
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Co-Line teams up with county law enforcement to fill the shelves of local food pantries
Jasper County Chief Deputy Duane Rozendaal and Co-Line employees fill the back of a deputy’s vehicle with food donations.
On Friday, Nov. 18, the employees of Co-Line, a manufacturing company south of Sully, brought in a record-breaking 1,400 pounds of non-perishable food items for local food pantries. This year, the company had a friendly competition among...
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Sully Cadets raise $7,600 at annual hog roast supper
Sully Cadet Trew Arthur, shown walking between tables with his back to the camera, checks on local community members – including his parents Shannon and Miranda and sister Trinity – enjoying the hog roast supper the Cadets served on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at Sully Christian School.
Cold temperatures didn’t stop locals from enjoying or Sully Christian...
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Sully Family Fun Night draws a supportive crowd
Over 200 people escaped the season’s coldest temperatures to date and warmed up inside the Sully Community Center on Saturday, Nov. 19, at Family Fun Night featuring bingo and a soup supper.
Doors to the public opened at 5 p.m. and all seats were taken shortly after as guests geared up for a night of hearty...
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Farm to table by Julie Van Manen
We are anticipating an exciting, event-filled end of the week celebrating Thanksgiving, the annual turning on the Christmas lights at the farm, Christmas tree excursion (just looked at email and saw the pig load schedule for the week – looks like we will load a load of pigs before the Christmas tree excursion on Friday),...
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Vos continues as L-S Board President, parking lot contract moves forward
The Lynnville-Sully Board of Education held its annual meeting on Monday, Nov. 21, at 6:35 p.m. in the high school library. President Tammy Vos called the meeting to order with boardmembers Jer Schnell, Amanda Jones, Gerry Van Dyke, and Dave Foster present along with superintendent Matt Dunsbergen, board secretary Karla De Cook, student ex-officio Kyle...
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