Category Archives: Opinion

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...

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...

1980 (35 years ago) Marsha Arthur, Jasper County Junior Miss, was to compete in the Junior Miss pageant in Ottumwa. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Felper of Searsboro, she was a senior at Lynnville-Sully. The Jasper County Conservation Board announced their intent to seek the acquisition of additional lands across Jasper County. Larry Hutchinson, board...

Thank you for all the kind words about last week’s column. I jotted notes for that one most of last year, so now the notebook is empty! This week, I’m taking the easy way out and sharing this that should boggle your mind. 1914 Ford Model T The year is 1914, 100 years ago. What a difference...

I know it’s rare for me to write a story that is 100 percent true, but this one is. It happened to me 15 or 20 years ago. I was renewing my chauffeur’s license. I had passed all of the requirements but the eye test, the one that worried me more than all the rest. (I...

What do your grandchildren call you? From traditional to trendy to celebrity grandparent names, some examples are Nana, Noni, Grandma, Grammy, Mimi, and more; Pop-Pop, Gramps, Papa, Grandpa, Pappy, and more. No matter what the term, a simple name on your grandchildren’s lips will melt your heart, guaranteed. You will not know the melting of your...

From the desk of Shane Ehresman, Lynnville-Sully Superintendent This article is a summary of the full report, “Teaching in a Learner-Centered Environment Powered by Digital Learning,” which was written by Mary Ann Wolf, PhD, a digital learning and technology consultant for the Alliance for Excellent Education. The full report and its sources are available at www.all4ed.org/files/CultureShift.pdf. The...