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L-S VB suffers losses to Sigourney, No. 7 Iowa Valley

With the regular season winding down, the L-S varsity volleyball girls battled two SICL Conference teams during the past week of action. The Hawks came up short both times and dropped to 9-8 overall. [caption id="attachment_504313" align="alignright" width="200"]Senior Shelby Foster pushes the ball over the net against Sigourney....
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Harvest Highs and Lows

Harvest Highs and Lows
Take a ride along the community’s countryside, and you will see farm fields dotted with combines harvesting crops late into the night and tractors and semis hauling full loads of grain on the roadways. Dry conditions over the past several weeks have allowed farmers to remain in the fields with little disruption. Ryan Schumacher, Key Cooperative’s...
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Co-Liners walk for statewide wellness

Co-Liners walk for statewide wellness
Fifty-eight Co-Line employees joined Iowans across the state of Iowa on Wednesday morning, Oct. 7, for the Healthiest State Walk. This year’s annual statewide walk marked the first time in the Healthiest State Walk’s five-year history that organized walks were held in all of Iowa’s 99 counties....
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Driver jailed following eluding law officer in Sully

At approximately 3:30 p.m.. on Sunday, Oct. 11, according to Iowa State Patrol M. Papin’s and Jasper County Deputy Jason Cunningham’s reports, Cunningham attempted to stop a driver for not wearing a seatbelt. The driver did not stop after lights and sirens were activated, and the driver ran two stop signs and sped through a...
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The DeeZee Spirit by Darrell Zegers – 10/15/15

For many years, I have flown the Iowa Hawkeye flag after football victories, a turkey flag at Thanksgiving, a ghost flag at Halloween, and a Santa flag at Christmas from the back of my motorcycle while riding up and down all the Sully streets. I have fallen down many times in the winter and sometimes in...
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Sully Fire Department report

The Sully Volunteer Fire Department was very busy on Saturday, Oct. 10, according to Mike Vander Molen, fire chief. At 5 a.m., they were called to a possible fire at the Key Cooperative elevator in Sully. It turned out to be steam from the grain dryer that was running. At 4:45 p.m., they were called to a...
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Keith E. Schwartz, 68

Keith E. Schwartz, 68, of Reasnor, passed from this life on Sunday morning, Oct. 11, 2015, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines. Visitation will be 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24, at Community Heights Alliance Church. A time of remembrance and memorial services will be at 1 p.m. at the church,...
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