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Windsor High School Homecoming Royalty

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Windsor High School Homecoming Royalty
Windsor High School hosted their Homecoming Dance on Saturday, September 30th. The theme for the evening was Candyland. Ainslie Eident was crowned Homecoming Queen and Brody Hendrickson was crowned Homecoming King. Front Row (left to right): Crown bearer Azalea Noffke, 2023 Homecoming Queen Ainslie Eident, 2023 Homecoming King Brody Hendrickson, Crown bearer Christopher Henderson. Back Row (left to right): Freshman Attendant Zoey McDaniel, Sophomore Attendant Cameron Carey, Junior Attendant Aubrey Carter, Queen Candidates Aubree Brown and Lillian Cole, 2022 Homecoming Queen Reese Bennett, 2022 Homecoming King Rhett Rincker, King Candidates Billy Evetts and Dax Bartimus, Junior Attendant John Cook, Sophomore Attendant Tayven Vaughn, Freshman Attendant Brody Barnard.

Redskins XC Continue Season

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•October 4, 2023•

by E. Scott England

The Sullivan Redskins XC teams ran in Taylorville and Mattoon last week. The first meet of the week took place at the Christian County Fairgrounds against four other teams. Sophomore Johnathan Iacobazzi finished fifth overall with a time of 17:17.32. Seniors Easton England and Davis Diepholz both finished in the top 20 at 16th and 19th, respectively. The Lady Redskins only had three runners compete at the race. Sophomore Eiley Poe was the top finisher for the team with an 8th place finish. Senior Allison Cullen crossed the line in 12th while junior Brooklyn Booker finished 15th. They did not have enough members to record a team score. Read More

Cami Badman’s Honors English III Student Letters To The Editor (Continued from Sept. 27 issue)

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Dear Editor,

Standardized testing is a very debatable topic in the United States. For many years, there has been talk about eliminating standardized testing from schools because they don’t improve education in America. However, there are many pros and cons to that argument. That being said, standardized testing should still be used in American education. “In his book Defending Standardized Testing, Dr. Richard Phelps presents his finding after analyzing 100+ years of research on standardized tests, and concludes that 93% of studies have shown standardized tests as having a positive influence on student achievement.” Although standardized tests can be a struggle for some students, a majority of students who take them get positive feedback.  Read More

Obituaries 10-4-2023: Thomas Winings

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Thomas Winings

Thomas Raglan Winings passed away peacefully September 23, 2023, at age 79 from Parkinson’s Disease. He was born the second of three children June 26, 1944, in Decatur, Illinois to Ernest and Mary Winings. Tom grew up on a dairy farm in Lovington, Illinois. He learned to work hard milking cows and planting, weeding, and harvesting soybeans, corn, oats, wheat, and hay with his father and older brother. Read More

The Point is Probably Moot

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•October 4, 2023•

By Jim Baumann

NP Guest Writer

An editor told me of a recent conversation he had with a regular guest columnist regarding the columnist’s use of “moot.”

Although the columnist offered a couple of alternatives, the editor decided to keep it in “on the theory that sometimes it’s interesting to readers to see a new word or a word correctly used in an unfamiliar way, even if at first it might send them running to the dictionary.”

I think most people who read a newspaper do so to learn something. At least I would hope so. I support the editor’s thinking. In fact, that’s the bedrock assumption of the column you’re reading right now. If there is room for “Grammar Moses” in the newspaper, there is room for “moot” in an opinion column.

Did I mention the columnist used “moot” as a verb? I’ll bet you didn’t see that coming. Read More