John Green
John J. Green, 94, of Sullivan, passed away in his home January 29, 2021, surrounded by his family.
Celebration of Life services were held at 1:30 p.m. today (Wednesday) at Reed Funeral Home in Sullivan with Pastor Kenny Bontrager officiating. Burial with military rites conducted by the Sullivan American Legion was in Greenhill Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to Wounded Warriors. Online condolences may be sent to the family at reedfuneralhome.net Read More
Pictured above was a Lovington home located on S. County, aka route 32. The original 2 lots were purchased in 1894 by Thomas and Priscilla Dawson who purchased them from W. G. Cochran. The Dawsons had a smaller wood frame home on the lots. In Sept 1918, Estelle Dawson, daughter in law of Priscilla, sold the property to Oliver and Linnie (Bailey) Pargeon. They had the old house demo’d and in the May 1919 construction began on this home. 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.
•February 3, 20201•
by Jason Brown
NP Sports
For a start of the season that many did not believe would come, local boys’ and girls’ basketball teams tipped into action this week.
After the Illinois High School Association announced new guidelines that basically allowed basketball to start practice and games, athletic directors, coaches, and athletes scrambled to set scheduled and began action as soon as possible.
Sullivan
The Sullivan girls’ opened their season Monday, February 1, with a home game against Villa Grove.
And the boys’ team is scheduled to begin next week.
Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond Read More
•February 3, 20201•
6th grade Straight A Honor Roll: Owen Herring, Langsten Klay, Billy Lieb, Cassidy Rohacs, Cooper Shoemaker, Layla Skeeters.
6th grade Honor Roll: Kimberly Hernandez, Kaitlyn Jacobs, Tyler Lisanby, Kale McComas, Jayden Parsons, Embrey Reardon, Rylan Schrock, Riley Strode, Benjamin Newhouse.
7th grade Straight A Honor Roll: Lucas Butcher, Savannah Butcher, Anna Rawlins.
7th grade Honor Roll: Ryker Beckmier, Kamden Morfey.
8th grade Straight A Honor Roll: Mitiku Appleby, Calahan Binion, Savannah Fagan, Maddix Stirrett.
8th grade Honor Roll: Ryan Appleby, Brooke Bolsen, Layla Deel, Jewelyonna Hutchcraft, Lindsay Rohacs, Ava Sherwood.
•February 3, 20201•
By Jerry L. Ginther
NP Guest Writer
Sure, as teens and young adults we looked forward to being on our own. Thinking how liberating it would be to experience the good life we would create for ourselves. Wrongly assuming, most of the time, that our parents had wasted their opportunities, and we thought we would never make the same mistakes. After all we were better educated, and the world had left the last generation and their ideas in the proverbial dustbin, along with the horse and buggy.
After the wars, signs of prosperity were everywhere. Indoor plumbing was becoming a reality in every household as outdoor wells and pumps began to disappear. Gas mains delivered natural gas to houses within the cities. Garages and automobiles were appearing next to homes. Air conditioners protruded from windows, and television antennas towered above many houses. We were modernizing, and the new appliances in homes, such as washers and dryers, were becoming status symbols, and clotheslines were becoming obsolete too. Read More
•February 3, 20201•
By Crystal Reed
NP Writer
Late last summer Richard Isaacs, 79, of Sullivan had a small garden and decided it would be better to water it from a pond on his property; so he got a bucket, and when he stepped down to fill it, he went face first into the pond.
He yelled for help for about 40 minutes, but no one was outside to hear his cries. Eventually, Ashlee Florey and her five-year-old son Oliver were letting their dog out and heard yelling from the other side of the subdivision, roughly 100 feet away. Read More
25 Years Ago This Week
It won’t be on the Sullivan square anymore, but the Don “Brownie” Brown’s carpeting business will continue, incorporated into Atchison True Value Hardware. The 40 year old Barnes Floor Covering Business is being absorbed into Dick and Mimi Atchison’s hardware center at 1315 South Hamilton.
Sullivan High School Illinois State Scholars were announced. They were Phoebe Bowers, Brian Reedy, Brianne Bolin, Darleen Chapranda, Ericka Ozee, Amanda Klein and Jill Farris.
Bethany High School Illinois State Scholars were Teri Zimmer, Jamie Banning and Jon Ashley. Read More
•February 3, 20201•
By Ellen Ferrara
NP Guest Writer
When America’s founding fathers envisioned this new nation, they were united in the pledge that it would be a democracy governed by the will of the people and never by a king, dictator or autocrat.
To ensure that government of the people, by the people and for the people would long endure they created an election process whereby every citizen should have a free and equal vote to decide who would govern them. Over 200 years later, we still struggle with ensuring equality in our voting system.
In the most recent 2020 election there was an unprecedented assault on the validity of our election process – the very cornerstone of our democracy. Even the integrity of our United States Postal Service was compromised. This happened in part, I believe, because people do not know or understand completely how our election process works. There is so much more to it than just completing a ballot and inserting it into a machine. Read More
•February 3, 20201•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer
When you’re new to the U.S. presidency, you want to surround yourself with people of action.
That seems to be what President Joe Biden is doing.
No, I’m not foolishly wading into the murky waters of political advocacy. I merely noticed a pattern the other day when Antony Blinken was confirmed as secretary of state.
Take a look at the lineup of Biden’s confirmed cabinet members and others waiting to be confirmed and tell me you don’t see the same pattern: Yellen, Blinken, Rouse, Power, Burns and ... Fudge.
Yep, all verbs. Read More
•February 3, 20201•
6th grade High Honors: Ally Abercrombie, Kody Burdick, Emeline Greathouse, Kaley Herschberger, Cameron McGill, Sophia Monts, Marcus Otto, Reece Oye, Leighton Poulos, Nicholas Rafferty.
6th grade Honors: McKenna Blaudow, Kylie Burke, Allen Collins, Adyson Cusick, Esmeralda Diaz, Hadden Fabert, Coye Grant, Shelbey Grimsley, Dustin Hodge, Nathan Rafferty, Maleyna Vanausdoll. Read More