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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Supervisors vote to repair glass broken in burglary
Dominique Kooiker | Editor dkooiker@ncppub.com On Tuesday, Feb. 24, the Lyon County Supervisors met to discuss various aspects of county operations. Vice-chairman Cory Altena presided over the meeting in the absence of chairman Steve Herman. Supervisor Jerry Birkey was also absent. The board of supervisors voted to repair five glass doors broken during the courthouse […]
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Central Lyon High School Jazz Band competes at the Lewis and Clark Jazz Band Festival
CENTRAL LYON JAZZ BAND WINS AT LEWIS AND CLARK FESTIVAL On Tuesday, Feb. 24, the Central Lyon High School Jazz Band competed at the Lewis and Clark Jazz Band Festival at Western Iowa Tech Community College in Sioux City. The group won first place in Class 2A, and Maggie McCarthy, pictured front row, third from […]
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Garden enthusiasts invited to learn more about seed starting and greenhouse management
As part of the local Northwest Iowa Master Gardener program, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach has teamed up with Knobloch’s Greenhouse to provide an in-person educational program focused on seed starting and local greenhouse management. Area gardening enthusiasts are invited to attend the learning session March 12 at 6:30 p.m. at Knobloch’s Greenhouse, 1873 […]
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Dreams coming true, live on stage!
ALL HAIL THE KING Terry Van Berkum as the Pharaoh shows the audience how the cast of River Valley Players’ production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” rocks and rolls in Egypt. This show was presented Feb. 27-March 1 in Rock Rapids. (Photo/Tristan Taylor) THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT Brandon Lenderink, playing the titular character […]
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Central Lyon, George-Little Rock students compete in individual speech districts
CENTRAL LYON INDIVUDAL SPEECH TEAM 2026 On Saturday, Feb. 28, the Central Lyon individual speech team competed at district competition in Sioux City. Front, left to right, Taylor Hasche, Kassandra Holland, Gracia Poppinga, Maggie McCarthy, Trinity Strassburg, Johna Schipper and Serenity Fluit. Second row, Serena Carey, Lexie DeWeerd, Claire Reiter, Rhya Kelderman, Ana Wood and […]
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What did Jesus mean when He said the Holy Spirit will tell you things to come?
KidsTalkAboutGod.org By Carey Kinsolving and friends “The Holy Spirit tells you stuff before it happens,” says Sawyer, 8. “He told my mom that Grandma was coming over, and then she showed up with cookies.” Now that’s a spiritual gift I’d like to have: the ability to sense cookie arrivals. While the Holy Spirit may not […]
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