New Library DirectorLaura Olson, new director for Inwood Public Library, began her new position at the beginning of this year. (Photo/Submitted Carol Vander Kolk) Tristan Taylor | Editor Inwood Public Library has seen a change in leadership, as the former director...
Helping HandsThe Moen family put together hot cocoa packages for the Inwood Food Bank that would be given to sponsored families this Christmas season. (Photo/Submitted Jenn Jenson) Baskets of LoveWith money donated from a local family, laundry baskets like this one...
Shauna Steiner Shauna Steiner Natalie (Hassebroek) Bohlke Tristan Taylor | Editor As the year closes out and more time is being spent with the ones we love, it is often a time to look back and reflect on all that has happened to us. In celebration of the holiday...
DANIELLE RAVELING Rising Hope therapist discusses cyberbullying Dominique Kooiker | Editor As students go on winter break, some may escape the bullying that goes on at school, but, thanks to technology, many will not get away from bullying entirely. Many kids have...
Raising Your Voices TogetherAt the end of West Lyon’s Winter Concert Dec. 11, community members were invited to join in singing the “Hallelujah Chorus.” (Photo/Tristan Taylor) Music From the HeartDressed in their best Christmas sweaters, Cooper Carolan and Anthony...
Ring the BellsInwood Christian School kindergartener, Tatum Van Beek, playing the hand bells to the song “Joy to the World” at the school’s Christmas program. (Photo/Tristan Taylor) Tristan Taylor | Editor Students of Inwood Christian School performed in their annual...
Season of GivingGranite had its Christmas donation drive inside the implement building on the threshing bee grounds. On the left, donations for Call to Freedom were collected in Santa’s Sleigh. (Photo/Tristan Taylor) Time for CommunityMany members of the Granite...
A Team EffortCoach Jason Knueven (far left) works with the Wildbots to im- prove upon their robot during the First LEGO League Challenge Qualifier Tournament at Patrick Henry Middle School in Sioux Falls on Saturday, Dec. 2. (Photo/Tristan Taylor) A Little to the...
Giving Thanks Tracy Gayer gives a small speech before lighting up the new nativity scene at Bethlehem Lutheran of Inwood on Wednesday, Nov. 29, reminiscing about the old set and thanking everyone who helped make the new one possible. (Photo/Tristan Taylor) Yearly...
Anything with MetalZach Garland, owner of The Iron Guy, has been running his business in Alvord for the last three years, doing welding projects for people across the West Lyon area and beyond. (Photo/Tristan Taylor) Tristan Taylor | Editor For much of his adult life,...
Buzzing inMembers of the West Lyon FCCLA competing at the Knowledge Bowl in Birmingham, Alabama. From left to right: Savannah Van Beek, Emersyn Rentschler, Meg Lapka, Alyssa Hoogestraat and Jacob Morgan. (Photo/Submitted Kristin Rockhill) Tristan Taylor | Editor...
Tristan Taylor Dominique Kooiker | Editor New Century Press is welcoming a familiar face as the new editor of the West Lyon Herald, former staff writer Tristan Taylor. Taylor grew up in Truman, Minnesota, where he graduated from Martin Luther High School. He attained...
Tristan Taylor | Editor With Thanksgiving over and the last of the leftover turkey sitting in the fridge, many are now turning their attention to the Christmas season. As the season draws closer, several towns in the West Lyon area will be hosting Christmas events to...
American Degree RecipientsJesse Wulf and Nathan Knapp, former members of West Lyon FFA, received their American Degrees for years of hard work in FFA. (Photo/Tristan Taylor) Tristan Taylor | Staff Writer After years of hard work and dedication, two former FFA students...
Tristan Taylor | Staff Writer Bethlehem Lutheran in Inwood will be hosting a special ceremony the evening of Nov. 29 at 6:30 p.m., as the congregation lights up their new nativity scene for the first time. This comes after not having a nativity scene last year due to...
Trivia ChampionsThe top-two teams of the ThinkFast Interactive program at West Lyon. (Photo/Tristan Taylor) Dancing SpiritJoshua Nelson busts a move and does the worm to impress the audience during a dance competition. (Photo/Tristan Taylor) High EnergyAlan Weiner,...
Thanking those who served Lanny Meendering is greeted and thanked by a student at Inwood Christian School after the Veterans Day program Friday, November 10. (Photo/Tristan Taylor) Tristan Taylor | Staff Writer Schools in the West Lyon area celebrated Veterans Day...
Looking back on 50 years since the Gitchie Manitou mass murder SITE OF A 50-YEAR-OLD TRAGEDY Fifty years ago, on Nov. 17, 1973, Gitchie Manitou State Preserve was the site of the worst multiple murder in Lyon County history. Stewart Baade, Dana Baade, Roger Essem and...
Award Winner West Lyon student Ellen Roemen won a county and regional poster contest with the theme of “One Water.” (Photo/Tristan Taylor) All connectedEllen Roemen’s winning conservation poster with the theme, “One Water”, shows a dirty stream running into a clean...
Jessica Jensen | Managing Editor The 2023 city/school election drew a bit more attention than is typical with West Lyon school district voters being asked to consider a $19.8 million general obligation bond for a school facility addition and renovation project...