Central Lyon State-Bound Once Again The Central Lyon girls’ basketball team celebrates their win over Westwood this past Friday, Feb. 27, the game win that’s sending them back to the state tournament for the fifth-consecutive season. Central Lyon is slated to face...
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Helping her hometown
NEW SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST AT SANFORD CLINIC Carly Sayler, a Rock Rapids native and 2017 Central Lyon graduate, is the new speech language pathologist at the Sanford Clinic in Rock Rapids. She sees patients for communication, cognition, feeding and swallowing therapies. (Photo/Dominique Kooiker) Rock Rapids Sanford Clinic welcomes speech language pathologist Dominique Kooiker | Editor […]
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Biblical education during the school day
LIFEWISE ACADEMY LifeWise Academy, a Bible-based character education program founded in 2018, currently serves nearly 100,000 students in 1,100 schools across 34 states. A group of local residents is working to bring this program to the Central Lyon Community School District with hopes of launching in the 2026-27 school year. (Photo/Submitted) Local residents work to […]
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Securing the community
CHECKING COMMUNITY BUILDINGS In recent months, the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office has begun doing overnight building checks of the communities’ businesses and public buildings. Deputies are encouraged to walk through the county’s communities, check to make sure buildings are secure and leave building check slips letting the owners know if their property is secure or […]
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Going wild for reading
A VISIT FROM AN AUTHOR On Feb. 5, author Sandra Markle did a virtual visit with Central Lyon elementary students. Students gathered in the high school auditorium where they could listen to and interact with Markle on big screens. During the presentation, Markle talked about her books and her experiences as an author, and she […]
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Preparing for emergencies on the water
PREPARING FOR WATER EMERGENCIES The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office received a $35,048 grant from the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation in October. The sheriff’s office purchased a boat with this grant money, a 2026 Crestliner 1860 Retriever tunnel hull boat with trailer with 80 horsepower jet drive Mercury motor and Hummingbird Xplore 10 graph. The […]
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Speaking Out
COPING WITH MUSIC Serenity Fluit is a senior at Central Lyon participating in original oratory for individual speech. Her speech is about the loss of her friend, Landon, and how music has helped her through hardships. (Photo/Madalynn Van Der Weerd) EXPRESSING ONESELF Amber Langholdt practices her musical theater speech. She is a junior at Central […]
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‘Go, go, go, Joseph!’
ROCK AND ROLL IN EGYPT Terry Van Berkum as Pharaoh rehearses for River Valley Players’ production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” This show features many different musical styles, including ‘50s rock ‘n’ roll. (Photo/Dominique Kooiker) WISHING FOR THOSE CANAAN DAYS During a rehearsal for River Valley Players’ production of “Joseph and the Amazing […]
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Celebrating a top speech honor
HEADING TO ALL-STATE SPEECH The ensemble acting group consisting of (left to right) Gretchen Stratman, Zachary Anderson and Garrett Helken were nominated for the All-State Large Group Speech Festival in the non-performing category for their performance of “Drugs Are Bad.” The group will travel to the Iowa Large Group All-State Speech Festival Saturday, Feb. 21 […]
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Once a Girl Scout, always a Girl Scout
NATIONAL GIRL SCOUT DELEGATE Anastasia Wood is now a national Girl Scout delegate and will be going to Washington, D.C., this summer to serve in the national Girl Scout council session. Wood has been a Girl Scout member since she was 6 years old. She is now striving for her new goal to get a […]
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