Category Archives: Opinion

I haven’t learned much in life. I could have quit school after the third grade. I could write my name and do simple arithmetic. I haven’t learned a thing since except keep your mouth shut and stand in the back row. I have embarrassed myself and made myself look stupid so many times! I went to a...

I recently saw some great stuff on my favorite website, dictionary.com: Eight ways to say congratulations. It’s an exciting time of year for graduates of high school, college, and graduate schools. These students and their families are celebrating this mark of achievement. There are hundreds of stories that could be told about the difficulties and hard...

I have my garden in, and it looks fairly good. I’m not very precise and sometimes plant two different types of seeds in the same row. I end up with some pretty weird crossbred plants, like beets that taste like radishes. I never use any kind of marker string. The rows are terribly crooked and almost touch...

By Shane Ehresman, L-S Superintendent The Lynnville-Sully Community School District has joined school systems throughout the state to salute their local education leaders during Iowa’s annual School Board Member Recognition Month in May. We salute these public servants of the Lynnville-Sully School, whose commitment and civic responsibility make local control of public schools in our community possible:...

35 years ago (1980) A new 3,800 square-foot Dutch-colonial style bank was planned for construction, according to Chuck Fritz, president of Kellogg Savings Bank. The LSK Jaycees held a benefit slowpitch softball tournament on Memorial Day with proceeds going to help the three men recovering from burns from the Co-op fire. The Lynnville-Sully Class of 1980’s motto was...

I struggle with whether we should say, “Happy Memorial Day.” It makes perfect sense to say “Happy birthday,” “Happy New Year,” “Happy Fourth of July,” “Happy Mother’s and Father’s Day,” “Happy Easter,” etc. But is Memorial Day really happy? Isn’t “Happy Memorial Day” an oxymoron? Isn’t it like wishing someone a happy anniversary of a...

The great weather goes on and on. It was 48 degrees Tuesday morning. I went uptown to get some gas for my mower. Someone asked what I was doing. They couldn’t see what I was driving? “Getting gas for my snowblower,” I yelled back. I still think back to those 50 years in a semi. I remember...