Sully News

The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union has released its preseason girls basketball rankings and Lynnville-Sully will begin the season ranked No.

Three Jasper County girls basketball teams competed in the Lynnville-Sully Jamboree Monday night.

The flu virus making is making its rounds in Jasper County, but apparently it's hitting some parts of the county harder than others.

Newton senior Nick Ellis and the Cardinal cross country teams could not run in the district/regional meets Thursday due to excessive rain across Central Iowa.

Cross country teams from around the state learned where they will compete for state berths at the end of the month.

Matthew Ibbotson, a 2006 graduate from Newton Senior High School, was graduated in March of this year from The Institute for Production and Recording in Minneapolis, Minn.

Margot VanHouweling's llamas Here are more results of Jasper County residents in competition at the 2009 Iowa State Fair: • Margot VanHouweling's llamas, Sleepy Hollow's Jellie and her first offspring, Jellie's Jem, both stood first in their respective halter classes at the Iowa State Fair Llama Show.

The tried and true joins the new as one family in Moravia expands in more ways than one.

Practice continued for the second week of the football season as Lynnville-Sully prepares for its season-opener Aug.

A total of eight Lynnville-Sully softball players received South Iowa Cedar League All-Conference honors announced today.

A total of 11 Lynnville-Sully softball players received South Iowa Cedar League Academic All-Conference honors.

Josh Van Wyk, Daniel Briseno and Logan Vos each had three hits in a 17-hit gave for the Hawks.

The Sully High School alumni will meet for their annual reunion at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 25, at the Sully Community Center.

Some tried to catch her, a few finished before her, but no female has ever run faster in the Sully Freedom Fun Run 5K race.

Six of seven area games were rained out Tuesday night, with the exception of Colfax-Mingo's softball game at Gilbert getting in after the rainfall.

The Farm Service Agency offices in central Iowa and Iowa State University Extension will host evening seminars this week on the new Average Crop Revenue Election program.

The city of Newton is getting ready for the Iowa Corn Indy 250 race at the Iowa Speedway this weekend, and officials hope to bring some of those race fans downtown.

A fire at Midwest Manufacturing in Kellogg on Saturday caused an unknown amount of damage to one of the older buildings at the facility.

The City of Newton is reminding the public there will be no Independence Day fireworks display next month due to budgetary restrictions.

Lynnville-Sully School District was awarded a $148,780 state grant this week to provide preschool for 43 local children.