June De Wit | Staff Writer Keeping satisfied customers is always the goal at Te Slaa Manufacturing so the company recently added some new products and is expanding sales and services. Feed bunk posts are the newest items to be manufactured as well as adding Forney...
June De Wit | Staff Writer Racing can get into your blood and once it’s there, it usually stays. That’s exactly what has happened to Chad Baatz and his family. He races car #78 at the Primghar figure 8 races. Baatz got hooked on figure 8 racing watching with friends...
June De Wit | Staff Writer A Hull couple, Daryl and Marla De Groot, were recently surprised to have been chosen to receive the Iowa Farm Environmental Leader Award for Sioux County. This award is a joint effort of the governor, lieutenant governor, Iowa Department of...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Boyden-Hull schools welcomed three new teachers for the 2018-19 school year. Megan Alexander Position: Preschool and TAG (talented and gifted) Grew up in: Beatrice, Nebraska Education: University of Nebraska, Lincoln – early childhood...
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor HULL-Western Christian High School has announced it will have a new wrestling coach for the 2018-2019 season. Pete Di Pol takes over after the departure of Kyle Westra. Prior to getting hired by the Wolfpack Di Pol was the head coach at...
June De Wit |Staff Writer For the last two years, Harlan and Kathy Mouw of Hull have been lucky to be on the support team for Grinding Gears Racing during The Great Race, a nine-day race involving vintage cars. Grinding Gears Racing is named after Rome Grinding...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer The mission of Hull Christian School is to educate children in the light of God’s word, and this year the school is adding a new plan to inspire teachers and transform school culture. Faith Integration Collaboration is a professional...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer The display boards, so often seen at the intersection of Main and First Streets in Hull, will no longer be allowed there after Oct. 1. Last week, the Hull city council decided to ban all signs in the middle of Main Street. Non-profit...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Western Christian High School welcomed five new teachers last week. Courtney Rylaarsdam Position: lower-level math – algebra, pre-algebra, geometry Grew up in Pella, Iowa, and Lake Worth, Florida Education: Dordt College – elementary...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer National Book Lovers Day was especially significant this year at the Paul and Lora Vis home at 631 Second St., Hull. The Aug. 9 celebration marked the unveiling of a Little Free Library in their front yard — the first one for the...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer In a few weeks, five Boyden-Hull High School students will be among the first to take instrumentation controls courses at Interstates in Sioux Center. The classes are being offered through a new cooperative program involving Interstates,...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Libraries have been offering patrons much more than books for many years. Next week, visitors at the Hull Public Library can experience virtual reality. Virtual reality is the use of computer technology to create a simulated environment,...
June De Wit | Staff writer There’s an unusual short bus in town. The gray and pink bus is a travelling kids’ boutique named “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made.” The unique venture was started by Julie Van Oort with the help of her husband, Darin. The traveling pop-up...
June De Wit | Staff Writer Vanessa Steiger was inspired to make weighted baby blankets after talking to a neighbor whose daughter had a sensory processing disorder. The family had been urged to try a weighted baby blanket, but the blankets were expensive, so Steiger...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer For 10 years, Amber Bynes has been chasing her dream of becoming a nurse practitioner. Today the 30-year-old from Hull is one of the nurse practitioners that oversee the emergency room at Sanford Sheldon Medical Center. She packed a lot...
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor For someone who lives in Sioux County, Iowa, giving back to others simply comes naturally. That fact alone was the main reason Logan Dykstra of Hull was named by the Allstate Insurance Co. and American Football Coaches Association as one...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Making Hull a bicycle-friendly community is important to the city council, so city administrator Jim Collins was directed to put together a bike/walking path committee. The committee was formed to provide advice for a bike trail in Hull...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Employees at Hull Christian and Western Christian schools will be looking for a new pension plan between now and Aug. 31, 2019. The Christian Schools International pension plan, in which the two schools participated, will be frozen...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Last week B. Fierce Boutique announced plans to expand the business located on Black Forest Drive in Hull. “We are running out of room,” explained store owner Nicole Rozeboom. “We need to add retail and storage space for the growing...
