Krista Lewin
Krista L. Lewin, 52, of Mattoon, passed away Saturday, August 6, 2022.
Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, August 12, at Resthaven Memorial Gardens in Mattoon. Tom Sherman will officiate. Mitchell-Jerdan Funeral Home, 1200 Wabash Avenue, Mattoon, IL 61938 is in charge of services. Read More
Quentin Kirk
Quentin Royce Kirk was a caring husband, father, grandfather, brother, and friend, He was also widely known as a philosopher, teacher, author, and poet. Read More
Lucille Fultz
Lucille Fultz, 90, of Sullivan, passed away at 4 p.m. Thursday, August 4, 2022, in the Arthur Home. Read More
•August 10, 2022•
HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital’s substance abuse, treatment and recovery program, provided in conjunction with Gateway Foundation, is a resource available to patients in the emergency department as well as throughout the hospital. Gateway Foundation is the largest nonprofit provider of substance use disorder treatment in the U.S. with its largest footprint in Illinois and has been providing life-saving treatment for over 50 years. In addition, Gateway has been engaged in a statewide program with hospitals and health systems over the last few years. Read More
To the Editor:
I’ve never been much of a fan of clichéd words and hackneyed phrases. They are usually unimaginative, lazy and platitudinous tropes that quickly wear out their welcome. That said, occasionally one of these terms finds itself as the perfect descriptor for a situation for which no other word or phrase can suffice nearly as well. Read More
•August 10, 2022•
by Sarah Hudson Pierce
NP Guest Columnist
Having lost a very dear friend, a year ago I am led to tell you a story about a widower who was looking through his old family trunk a few years ago and how he discovered a poem penned in his wife’s own hand. It was dated just days before she died, after a long illness, over thirty years ago.
The piece was titled Just One More Day.
It went something like this: “Give me just one more day with you!”
Those poignant words were overwhelming to him and are enough to get our attention because life is so uncertain. Our rugs can be jerked out from under our feet so quickly, with no warning. Read More
Pictured above is Memorial Day at Greenhill Cemetery in Sullivan. The year that this photo was taken is unknown. Please submit photos to the News Progress for future consideration. Originals will be saved for return or forwarded to Moultrie County Historical Society. If you have any other information, please contact the Moultrie County Historical Society at 217-728- 4085.
•August 10, 2022•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer
An outfit called www.unscrambled-words.com decided to mine Google’s search function data to determine which words we seem to have the most trouble spelling.
After seeing many of them, I’m truly terrified for our future. Please share in my grief.
“Tomato,” “cheese” and “Idaho” are among America’s most misspelled words for 2022, according to the study.
Yet these are primary ingredients in most Burger King meals, if you count potatoes as Idaho’s chief contribution to the culinary world. I know this about Burger King from doing plenty of market research.
Do we really not know how to spell these words?
In defense of Alaska, where the biggest stumbling block is “cheese,” let’s consider that in the entire state there are only 10 dairies. So, like many of us, Alaskans probably eat Cheez-Its by the box and put Cheez Whiz on corn chips. Read More
25 Years Ago This Week
Ciara Bush, Rachel Marshall and Sara Sims were contestants in the Little Miss Bethany contest.
Ray Shain, water supply operator for the City of Sullivan, was a nominee for “operator of the year award” given annually by the Illinois Potable Water Supply Operators Assn.
50 Years Ago This Week
The newly appointed zoning board of appeals and the Lovington Village Board approved a variance to the zoning ordinance to allow Moultrie Grain Assn. to build buildings higher than allowed by the ordinance. The association planned to build several grain storage bins at their property on the south side of the elevator office. The bins were 100 feet tall or 45 feet higher than allowed in the ordinance without a variance.
A five day canoe trip, from Cooks Mills to the Shelbyville Dam, was being planned by eleven Boy Scouts from Troop No. 39 and their leaders. During the fifty mile trip, the boys were required to spend at least 10 hours on a conservation project.
Photo by Crystal Reed
Frog Music at ETML
Brock Rowland, Program Specialist at Macon County Conservation District, presented a program on frogs at the Elizabeth Titus Memorial Library on Friday, August 5. Participants listened to what different frogs sound like, learned about different types of frogs and were able to see some up close.
Photo by Crystal Reed
Newspaper Kites
Elizabeth Titus Memorial Library had a week of activities for children in kindergarten-5th grades from Monday, August 1 to Friday, August 5. On Monday children made their own bird houses, Tuesday was stamp making, Wednesday was shrinky dinks, Thursday was newspaper kites and Friday, the Rock Springs Nature Center presented “Frog Music.” Pictured are Emmitt Herzog and Aniston Baker with the newspaper kites that they created.