Category Archives: News

West 2nd Avenue is paved in Sully

As of Tuesday, Apr. 14, West 2nd Avenue north of the new Janco building is pavement (shown above). Shoulders and other finishing work were scheduled to be completed by the end of the week in the Sully RISE paving project, which started Apr. 1. According to city engineer Brad Uitermarkt of Garden & Associates of...
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Pastor’s Pen: Peace in the Storm

By Tom Pool, Lynnville Heart of Worship pastor As we enter into the spring of 2015, the saying goes, “April showers bring May flowers.” With that in mind, we also know that Iowa springtime can bring some stormy weather. We know it, expect it, and deal with it. It is really not that different from the...
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Independent Study Clothing students go beyond comfort zones to create

For many students, like senior Taylor Vander Leest, experience at the sewing machine is limited until school class exposure. Vander Leest first sewed in Family and Consumer Science Exploratory 7 class, and again in Health FACS and Clothing I. The senior enjoyed learning the techniques so much so that she has now successfully created a...
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SCS grades 5-8 take in a World War II survival tale

Each year, grades 5-8 attend a Civic Center production based on a historical event. This year’s performance, “Lifeboat,” on Wednesday, Apr. 8, transported SCS students back to World War II, to the time of the extraordinary true story of two young ladies. In 1940, a ship named City of Benares set sail from Britain headed for...
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Sully Ambulance and Fire Dept. Emergency Topics for You

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...
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Remember When – 4/16/15

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...
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A day for sweet little candies

Apr. 22 is National Jelly Bean Day. Who doesn’t love a jelly bean, from good old cherry, orange, or lemon to the more adventurous flavors like buttered popcorn, latte, and chili mango? Jelly beans are a classic candy with a soft, chewy center and a thin candy coating. The flavor possibilities are endless, which has...
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