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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...

I think it’s official. The Rankin house is going through a bit of a pregame before the terrible twos strike. I feel like The Little is just warming us up for the real show and what’s to come. I’m starting to firmly believe in this theory. Nobody warned us about this. Read more

35 years ago (1980) Lynnville Volunteer Fire Department Chief Gary Tice displayed the air masks the department received through donations from Elsie and Lucile Sparks and the LSK Jaycees. Ardena Nelson, Lynnville-Sully business education teacher, retired after serving the L-S School since 1959. In response to the grain embargo of suspension of grain sales to the USSR, 52...