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40 years ago (1976) Over 1,000 area residents enjoyed the Sully Appreciation Day Breakfast hosted by the Sully Business Association and served by the Sully First Reformed Church Ladies Guild. At the L-S School Board meeting, it was approved to increase part-time from $2 per hour to $2.20 per hour to coincide with the federal minimum wage...

Monday is a 24-hour bonus day that only occurs every four years. Depending who you are and how old you are, there comes a point in your life when you don’t like to celebrate birthdays every year because it means you’re getting older and most people would really like to get younger. This year, leaplings...

I’m back from California and may never go back. There are too many cars and too many people in California. The trip home started with tension taking over my body. I wanted to leave the house at 6:30 for the airport. Our plane was leaving at 10 a.m. We stayed with my wife’s sister. The airport is...

40 years ago (1976) Ron Vander Kamp (167) and Jim Holloway (155) of Lynnville-Sully won their weight divisions at the Class A sectional wrestling tournament. Over $4,000 had been donated to the Searsboro Fire Department to help with the purchase of a different fire truck. The Sully Businessmen’s Association held Sully Appreciation Day at the Sully Community Building....

I’ve been out in California for a few days and am really enjoying the weather out here, 70 to 80 degrees and sunny every day so far. Unfortunately, I have to go home in a few days and face the music with every other poor Midwesterner. This air trip was very eventful. I hate airports. I get extremely...