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By Mike Vander Molen, Sully Fire Department Chief If you read this column last week, you know we were talking about tornadoes. Did you make a plan for where to take shelter no matter where you are? If you did, did you get stuck when you thought about where to go if you are on the...

As I write this, I’m also writing up my grocery list. I feel like I get groceries way more than I should, menu planning or not. I always run out of snacks, or my fresh items go bad sooner than expected. Anybody else relate? They say not to get groceries on an empty stomach. While...

I had a couple of strange things happen again this past week. My wife announced that she and I were going to Des Moines last Friday night. She said she might buy something up there and wanted some help from me to get it hauled home. We went into a large store. She went her way, and...

By Mike Vander Molen, Sully Fire Department Chief It hasn't been very long since we were thinking winter would never end. I think we can all agree that the weather lately has been great. Do you know what comes with the warmer weather? Did any of you notice how the weather quickly turned to warm and...

35 years ago (1980) Bryce W. Gause joined the staff of the First State Bank in Lynnville as executive vice president. Gause graduated from Lynnville-Sully High School in 1959, served in the U.S. Army from 1963 to 1967, and graduated from Simpson College in Indianola in 1969 with a BA degree in accounting. Harold and Grace Beyer...

I had some requests from people asking me to write something that had happened to me during all my years of driving a semi. I starting driving an 18-wheeler when I was 17 years old. The first unusual thing happened not long after that. I had a license to drive a straight truck, but not a...

So here’s my take on this week’s Monday: And then I had an interesting thought: Why does toilet paper need a commercial? Who is not buying this? Pretty sure that could be the one self-selling product with no sales pitch needed. What do I know, though, I’m...