Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer The Hull Chamber of Commerce and local retailers are teaming up for another round of Black-Out Bingo, where customers have the opportunity to earn a free T-shirt or a chance to win Hull Chamber dollars. From Sept. 16-Oct. 28, shoppers can...
Carmen Vande Stroet | Staff Writer Hull residents and mother/daughter duo, Jayda and Missy Van Egdom, are perfect examples of some of the hidden talent found in local communities. Recently, both were honored and awarded for each of their own artwork. And if you visit...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Four teachers joined the staff at Boyden-Hull for the 2019 -2020 school year. Three of them are first-time teachers. Tina Ageson Elementary special education, freshman volleyball Grew up in Rock Rapids, the daughter of Toby and Anne...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer In addition to principal, Brian Verwolf, students at Western Christian High School met three new members of the faculty when they began classes last Friday. Mary Dirksen Director of support services Grew up in Long Island, New York,...
Carmen Vande Stroet | Staff Writer Sitting at her dining room table in Aspen Heights with her mother’s china ready for tea, Joyce Heynen, a former teacher, is the essence of grace and hospitality. A large portrait of her family graces the wall above the table where...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Hull Christian School is expecting 200 students in grades pre-kindergarten through eight when classes begin Friday, Aug. 23. That’s an increase of seven from last year. “It’s really nice to see,” said principal Randy Ten Pas. “We did get...
Carmen Vande Stroet | Staff Writer In a few short weeks, the sounds of power saws, the whirs of drills and pounding hammers will be overshadowed by eager and excited student voices filling the Boyden-Hull High School halls once again. For the past few months, the...
June De Wit | Staff Writer Katie Van Den Top of Hull was sad but excited to show her beef steer, Wilson, at the 37th annual Governor’s Charity Steer Show Saturday, Aug. 10, at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. A celebrity is chosen to help show each of the steers and...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Shawn and Stacy Andringa, Sanborn, recently purchased the former Compass Pointe office building located on Main Street in Hull. They are leasing space in the building to Vander Haag’s Inc., a licensed truck and trailer dealer. Shawn is the...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Twelve years ago, Chris Kelley arrived in northwest Iowa as a construction manager for the Bison Renewable Energy plant near Perkins. While Bison Renewable Energy wasn’t successful, Kelley prospered, and became a vital part of Koele...
June De Wit | Staff Writer Twenty-six cars go off the tracks Wednesday evening brought emergency personnel to Sioux County when reports were received by the Sioux County Sheriff`s Office of a train derailment five miles northwest of Hull. The derailment occurred on...
Carmen Vande Stroet | Writer Nine months out of the year, Boyden-Hull Elementary School is a symphony of noise from hallways filled with nervous chatter, to classrooms that quietly hum and playgrounds that boast energetic laughs. But for the past few months, the usual...
Carmen Vande Stroet | Writer Just a little off the beaten path down a gravel road north of Boyden, a group of garden enthusiasts were treated with a walk through a garden in a league of its own Thursday, July 25. Northwest Iowa Community College and GoodEetens Produce...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Transition means change, and a new partnership between Pastor Van Rathbun and First Reformed Church in Hull will lead them both in new directions. Rathbun was pastor at Bethel Reformed Church, Sioux Center, nearly 18 years. First Reformed...
June De Wit | Staff Writer Although still in the early planning stages, the Boyden City Council recently approved the purchase of a lot adjacent to Centennial Park. The three-acre parcel, owned by Doug De Weerd, is located to the east of the ball diamond at the park....
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Hull city administrator, Jim Collins, offered new ideas for another bike trail when the city council met last week. The trail would begin at the corner of Sixth and Aspen streets, run north behind Morgan Court to the field north of Eighth...
Carmen Vande Stroet | Staff Writer In just a few short days, the city of Hull will be one of five destinations in the sixth annual Commercial Chaos for a Cure semi-truck poker run when trucks of every size and shape will roll into town. Started in 2014, the idea for...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer The Boyden-Hull school board recently approved creating two new positions — an elementary dean of students and secondary dean of students, adding soccer as a club sport and purchasing property south of the high school in Hull. The new...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Like the rest of Sioux County, Hull and Boyden have a shortage of daycare spaces. Mid-Sioux Opportunity’s Iowa Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) regional director, Melissa Juhl, calls it a child care crisis. “The total number of...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer In 1919, Western Academy was created as the beginning of a high school in Hull. A century later, hundreds of alumni and friends will gather to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Western Christian High School and its history of providing...
