•June 16, 2021•
The James Rainey Trio from St. Louis will be performing Saturday, June 19 at the Allenville Christian Church at 6 pm. A love offering will be taken. There will be refreshment after the concert.
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Moultrie Moment of the Week
Pictured above are SHS cheerleaders and students around the 1960’s. 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.
County Board Fails to Pass Remapping of Sullivan Township Precincts
•June 16, 2021•
by Crystal Reed
NP Writer
The Moultrie County Board failed to pass a motion to approve remapping of Sullivan Township precincts. The current existing map of the precincts was set up by County Clerk Richard Purdeu in June 1989. The proposed map put to the board was drawn up by Bruce Harrison and Associates which is a firm that does considerable work for the county through the assessor’s office.
John Fayhee made a motion which died for lack of a second. Brad Graven, a former county board member, expressed concerns about how the proposed map is put together. “A committee of citizens could have sat down with a voter registration list, and I can tell you how many voters are in each one of those sections,” he said. “I’m not sure why a consultant had to be hired to do that.” Read More
Sullivan Blue Dolphins Now Able To Compete
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Open division
Ethan Schmohe, Matthew Wesselman, Miles Kersten, Max Kersten, Isaac Chambers, Madalyn Booker, Mackenzie Erixon, Deanna Clark.
•June 16, 2021•
Sullivan Blue Dolphins Swim Team under the guidance of USA Swimming and Illinois Swimming is now able to attend swim meets under strict COVID requirements. In May, forty-six Dolphins attended a dual competition with the Terre Haute Torpedoes. The weekend of June 5, fourteen swimmers were able to compete at the Capital City Classic meet in Springfield which hosted some of the top swimmers in the state.
Top results from the Terre Haute meet:
8 & Under girls
5th place Ana Kean 100 backstroke
8 & Under boys
3rd place Tyler Blickensderfer 100 IM
4th place Mack Pogue 100 IM Read More
Lovington Grade School Honor Roll
•June 16, 2021•
6th grade Straight A Honor Roll: Maxton Boddy, Morgan Casteel, Caleb Menna, Brynlee Moore, Joshua Taylor, John Williams.
6th grade Honor Roll: Kole Binder, Tucker Casteel, Jaidyn Edwards, Samantha Fowler.
7th grade Straight A Honor Roll: Daylon Doggett, Will Hilligoss, Cambrie Smith.
7th grade Honor Roll: Kori Rich, Alyssa Richards, Halle Wardrip.
8th grade Straight A Honor Roll: Lilian Edwards, Natalie Hutchcraft, Jacob Tighe, Connor Tipton.
8th grade Honor Roll: Austin Bates, Kendall Carnahan, Lily Culp, Kaylee McDaniel.
Sullivan Sports Briefs
•June 16, 2021•
Boys’ Track
and Field
The Sullivan boys’ track and field team competed in the IHSA Class 1A Track and Field Sectional #10 at Tuscola Friday, June 11.
The Redskins placed seventh out of 17 teams with 27 points.
Redskin Terence McRill won the long jump to qualify for the IHSA State Track Meet next Thursday at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.
McRill leaped a personal record distance of 6.13 for first place.
The 400-meter relay team of Colin Chappel, Cody Browne, Cooper Browne and McRill placed third with a time of 45.36.
Chappel also placed fourth in the 200-meter dash at 25.44 and fifth in the 100-meter dash with a personal-best time of 11.65.
Girls’ Track and Field Read More
Obituaries 6-16-2021: Paul McWilliams
Paul McWilliams
Paul E. McWilliams, 89, of Sullivan, passed away at 12:16 p.m. Tuesday, June 8, 2021, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Decatur. Read More
Tommy Houser Memorial Golf Tournament
•June 16, 2021•
The inaugural Tommy Houser Memorial Golf Tournament will be held Saturday, June 26. Proceeds will go towards the Thomas Houser Memorial Scholarship Fund. Golfing begins at the Sullivan Country Club with sign-ins at 10 am and a shotgun start at 11 am. There will be a McDonald’s Lunch at Noon. The event will include traditional golf games, 50/50, mulligans, gun raffle and lunch and dinner provided to golfers. First, second and third place teams take home prizes. There will also be male and female winners for longest drive, closest to the pin and longest putt. A party will follow at the Sullivan VFW Post 6410 with silent auction at 3 pm, steak dinner at 6 pm and Identity Crisis playing at 7 pm. Additional steak dinners are available for purchase for $15. Contact Elizabeth Houser at 217-962-0189 for more information.
A Southern Charm Vocabulary Lesson
•June 16, 2021•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer
A hearty hello to all y’all after my two-week vacation in Tennessee and North Carolina.
I hope you missed me.
I’m one of those people who love to visit unfamiliar places with unfamiliar customs, unfamiliar dialects and unfamiliar foods.
I strive to make them all familiar to me lickety-split so I feel more a part of the place than a fish out of water.
I didn’t bone up on French, Italian or German in preparation for this trip, but I did burn into my cerebrum that the mountain range is pronounced App-uh-LATCH-in, not App-uh-LAY-shun.
You blow that one, and locals point at you, their mouths agape, and scream like Donald Sutherland did at the end of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” Read More
Arthur Grade School 4th Quarter Honor Roll
•June 16, 2021•
6th grade High Honors: Ally Abercrombie, Kylie Burke, Adyson Cusick, Cameron McGill, Sophia Monts, Marcus Otto, Reece Oye, Leighton Poulos, Nathan Rafferty, Nicholas Rafferty. Read More