Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer The Hull Kiwanis Club recently announced the recipients of the group’s annual $500 scholarships to local high school seniors. This year’s winners are Brianna Kleinwolterink, Boyden-Hull; Caitlin Van Engen, Trinity Christian, and Kayla...
June De Wit |Staff Writer Excitement is building as the Trinity Christian High School robotics team, the bzBots, gears up for the Worlds Competition. Worlds is for an elite group of robotics competitors that have placed in state competitions and are moving forward to...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer The lives of Lester and Rosemary Harman made an impact on their grandson, Jackson Harman. Even though the couple has passed on, Jackson is keeping their memory alive by helping others facing similar health struggles. “My grandpa had...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Although she spends her days working with the vocal music department at Northwestern College in Orange City, it was the college symphonic band which gave Cindy Moeller, Hull, the opportunity to visit the country of Spain. “I love to travel...
June De Wit | Staff Writer Fifteen students from the three high schools in Hull were invited to participate in the All-State Individual Speech Festival March 25 on the University of Northern Iowa campus. All-state speech is comparable to state athletic tournaments...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Revenge is sweet. On Friday, March 22, Kyle and Emily Westra were married and then left for their honeymoon. The next day, a can collection bin and unique sign appeared in the couple’s front yard on Chestnut Street in Hull. The plywood...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Jon Hale thought he wanted to be a teacher. But then Pizza Ranch got his attention. Last Monday, the Orange City native was introduced as the new manager at Hull Pizza Ranch and he began familiarizing himself with the restaurant and...
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor After a rough senior season playing on the Western Christian boys’ basketball team, it did not take long for Bill Harmsen to realize coaching would be his calling. “It starts back a long time ago when I got injured my senior year in high...
June De Wit /Staff Writer Boyden-Hull Community School partnered with the Sioux County Sheriff’s Office and Sioux County Community Health Partners to host an informational presentation on the dangers of vaping and Juuling, and how it affects a teen’s developing brain...
June De Wit | Staff Writer The fourth annual Business & Industry Expo will be Wednesday, March 27, from 3- 8 p.m. in the Hull Community Building on Main Street. The Hull Area Chamber of Commerce sponsors the event. The expo is open to the public with free...
Hull city administrator, Jim Collins, attended an Iowa floodplain mapping program meeting in Orange City last week and shared this graphic. “While we in Hull do not have much in the way of a flood plain, it was interesting to see where the mapping program indicated...
The Boyden-Hull boys’ basketball team finished the 2018-2019 campaign in second place in Class 2A during the boys’ state basketball tournament in Des Moines last week. Look inside for our “Road to State” special section for complete recaps on all three games, photos...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer The Hull Chamber of Commerce’s annual Outstanding Citizens luncheon was Monday, March 11, in the community building. According to the Chamber, the purpose of the event is to recognize the people who go above and beyond to make Hull a...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer When the school year started last August at Hull Christian, one essential position was unfilled. They didn’t have a school secretary. A few months earlier, the previous administrative assistant had left for another job closer to where she...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Five sixth-grade girls who love to read have created their own book club at Boyden-Hull Elementary School. Last fall, with the help of principal Tom Kerr, the group began meeting twice a month, during lunch break, to discuss books “Book...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Demco employees enjoyed a delicious lunch while supporting disabled veterans Wednesday, Feb. 27, in Boyden. The company hosted its third chili cookoff as a fundraiser for Partners for Patriots, a non-profit that provides service dogs for...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Pete Pals never intended to write a book. But somehow the Orange City man’s collection of stories about growing up in Hull ended up published and for sale on Amazon. “Memories of Growing up in Hull, Iowa: the 1940’s and 1950’s” is a...
June De Wit | Staff Writer Getting into the spirit of Western Christian’s 100th anniversary, Lyle Van Ravenswaay, the school’s instrumental instructor, commissioned Jacob Ven Huizen, a local composer, to create a piece in honor of the anniversary. The commissioned...
June De Wit |Staff Writer The 2019 Iowa Beef Expo Livestock Judging Contest is a week-long event that was Saturday, Feb. 9 to Sunday, Feb. 17. Showing their beef livestock is one of the activities Riley and Reagan Jansen of Hull enjoy doing. They showed Friday through...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer The former Bison Renewable Energy site, located south of Perkins, is the proposed location for ReadiFuels-Iowa, a $58.7 million plant that would produce approximately 34 million gallons of renewable diesel and renewable naphtha annually....
