Sully resident Mike Vander Molen was honored with the Friend of the Fair Award on Monday, July 21, at the Jasper County Fair. The Friend of the Fair is one of the more notable awards given and recognizes people who give an exceptional amount of time and effort to make the fair a success.
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Lighting installed at Jasper County Freedom Rock
Wednesday, July 23, a Sully Electric and Controls crew installed the lighting at the Jasper County Freedom Rock in the southeast corner of Sully Central Park. The installation is designed so that the rock and the flags will be lit at night and the American flag won’t have to be taken down at nightfall. The...
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St. Francis Manor announces land purchase and new development in Grinnell
St. Francis Manor Board member Fran Conn and landowner Bill Tish recently worked together to facilitate a great community service with St. Francis Manor’s purchase of four acres of land from Tish to further develop the Seeland Park Retirement Community located in Grinnell. The property, known by many as the former saddle club land, is...
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The Wooden Spoon by Shelly Rankin – 7/31/14
This week is another memorable one for the parenting book. The Scrumptious Little decided crawling and standing on everything is the only thing to do. She decided her crib tastes delicious. I mean, who doesn’t like varnish with a side of crib for breakfast every morning? It’s probably because all of her top teeth decided...
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Remember When – 7/31/14
35 years ago (1979)
The L-S Advisory Committee on the School Building Needs met to study the cost analysis of three options to improve elementary school facilities. Those options were: 1. Renovate the Lynnville and Searsboro buildings with additional construction to adequately house grades K-8 at a total cost of $1,786,900. 2. Renovation of the Searsboro...
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Should you and I really join this?
Along with some very kind words about my recent column on wanting a Fourth of July redo, Ardie Roehr (remember her? she now lives in Ames), sent this priceless item, “Should I Really Join Facebook?”
Read it all the way through! It's a good laugh AND really quite true! A good laugh for people in the...
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Drug search warrant leads to two arrests near Kellogg
A drug search warrant served at approximately 7:05 p.m. on Wednesday, July 23, at 1190 Rock Creek West in rural Kellogg, resulted in the arrest of the couple who lived there.
Members of the Mid-Iowa Narcotics Enforcement Task Force with the assistance of the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office seized illegal drugs and drug paraphernalia, according to...
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