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Players wanted for L-S Men’s Community Basketball Game

Hawk fans of all ages are encouraged to attend the annual L-S Men’s Community Basketball Game set for Saturday, Mar. 21. Any Lynnville-Sully com-munity member who would like to play a basketball game in support of the Lynnville-Sully boys basketball program is encouraged to sign up. Both alumni and community members who now bleed blue and...
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Remember When – 1/22/15

1980 (35 years ago) An emergency Lynnville-Sully School Board meeting was held to discuss the Sully Elementary Building due to furnace malfunction. It was decided to close the building for the rest of the school year. Grades four and five were to be bused to the middle school in Searsboro. The building and all the contents of...
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Press INKlings: An English lesson for your day

Homographs are words of like spelling, but with more than one meaning. A homograph that is also pronounced differently is a heteronym. I’ve said this very often before and writing it again, you think English is easy? I think a retired English teacher was bored and wrote this and ... IT IS GREAT! Read all the way to...
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Kruseman Implement donates $2,500 to Sully playground

Linda and Doyle Huyser of Kruseman Implement present a $2,500 check to Amy Harthoorn of the Sully playground committee. Plans are underway with a fund drive to finance replacing the playground area in Sully Central Park. To donate any amount or to a specific playground item, forms are at both banks in Sully, Hometown Press,...
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The DeeZee Spirit by Darrell Zegers – 1/22/15

I’ve always tried to find the most easy way to do any job, or sometimes it’s the only way. Here’s another time when I thought my way would be fun. I remember mowing my parents’ yard when I was a kid. I didn’t think the little motor on the mower ran fast enough so I put...
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Virginia Mae Ewing, 55

Ginny Ewing, 55, of Ewart passed away peace-fully Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015, under hospice care. Funeral services were Jan. 19 at Community Hope Church in Montezuma. Memorials may be directed to the Youth Ministry at Community Hope Church. Virginia Mae "Ginny" Ewing was born Jan. 22, 1959, the daughter of Phillip and Eva Mae (Roelofsen) Proudfit....
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Matthew Steenhoek, 30

Matthew Steenhoek, 30, of Monroe died unexpectedly Jan. 10, 2015, in Coralville. Funeral services were held Thursday, Jan. 15, at Monroe United Methodist Church with burial following at Silent City Cemetery, Monroe. The son of Marvin and Kathy (Fopma) Steenhoek, Matthew was born Sept. 25, 1984, in Pella. He graduated from PCM High School in 2003...
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