•February 10, 20201•
Submitted by:
Yolanda Nation
Shelby County 4-H Program Coordinator
The 4-H programs in Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Moultrie, and Shelby Counties are bringing youth a new way to “Explore 4-H”. Each month there will be a different exploratory kit offered for ALL youth - not just 4-H members. Each of these kits will be associated with a 4-H project area that youth can enroll in for a project. Read More
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Spelling Bee
Lovington Grade held their spelling bee last week. The top 6 will participate in the virtual Moultrie County Spelling Bee on Wednesday, February 10. There are two alternates.
1st Place - Macelyn Boddy, 2nd Place - Brian Hadley, 3rd Place - Jacob Hurt, 4th Place - Rylie Pitts, 5th Place - Bella Menna, 6th Place - Max Boddy, Alternate - Samantha Fowler (Not pictured), Alternate - Makenna Liming (Not Pictured).
Clyde Hicks
Clyde L. Hicks, 91, of Bethany, passed away at 8:44 p.m. Monday February 1, 2021, in Sullivan Health Care Center. Read More
Photo by Crystal Reed.
Allison Garrett, the new Outreach Coordinator at C.E.F.S. Moultrie County Outreach Office stocks the shelves in the food pantry last week.
•February 10, 20201•
by Crystal Reed
NP Writer
The C.E.F.S. Moultrie County Outreach Office has added a new outreach coordinator to their staff. Allison Garrett works closely with the housing counselor, rent assistance, energy assistance and food pantry.
She holds a bachelor in human services and community leadership from Eastern Illinois University. Garrett is originally from the Kankakee area but currently resides in Charleston. Prior to working at C.E.F.S. she worked at the YMCA in Mattoon. Read More
•February 10, 20201•
The University of Illinois Extension in cooperating partnership with sponsors Decatur Catholic Charities and Lovington Ambulance Service will be having a mobile food pantry on Wednesday, February 24 from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm at Lovington Ambulance Service. A mobile food pantry delivers a 2 week supply of food per family in rural communities. Any individual or family that does not have a steady food supply qualifies to receive food. No financial information is required. This distribution is open to all, not only residents of Lovington. You must sign up prior to February 17 by calling 217-855-5616 during business hours of 8 am to 4 pm Monday-Friday. Once your form is completed by phone, you will be given a number to bring with you on the day of distribution. If you lose your number, you need to bring identification. The food will be distributed according to your household size on February 24, from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. You will need to drive thru the Lovington Ambulance parking lot.
•February 10, 20201•
Millikin University has announced their Fall 2020 Dean’s List. Area students named to the list were: Amy Orris of Bethany, Mya Lux of Dalton City, Paige Coleman and Garrett Fritz of Findlay, Athena Pajer of Lovington and Isabella Benning, Samuel Hagerman and Madalyne McPheeters, all of Sullivan.
Wanda Harris
Wanda LaDean (Maxedon) Harris, 83, of Vandalia went peacefully with the Lord on Wednesday, February 3, 2021, surrounded by her loving family. Read More
•February 10, 20201•
by Jason Brown
NP Sports
The Sullivan girls’ basketball team kicked off the season with three games this past week.
The Redskins opened up the season with a 44-21 win over Villa Grove Monday, Feb. 1, and then knocked off Champaign Central 52-15 Thursday.
Sullivan suffered its first loss of the season to a tough Paris team, 50-39. Read More
•February 10, 20201•
Ross A Metzger of Gays was named to The University of Alabama Deans List for fall 2020.
A total of 13,128 students enrolled during the fall 2020 term at The University of Alabama made the Dean’s List with academic records of 3.5 or above (on a 4.0 scale), or the President’s List with academic records of 4.0 (all A’s). Read More
•February 10, 20201•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer
The headline is a window into a story.
It’s also one of newspapering’s most interesting (and fun) challenges. How do you convey the nuance of a story in just a few words? How do you alert people that an Anthropologie store is moving into Metropolis, all in a one-column hed (which is newspaper jargon for “head,” which is short for “headline”)?
We have a bunch of award-winning headline writers on staff who constantly amaze me. But sometimes even they get stumped.
Neil Holdway, who heads up our night copy desk operation, wrote me an overnight note about a particular challenge: “So we struggled with my panel headline on the Illinois vaccination rate, where I said ‘1 in 12 Illinoisans have their first dose.’ Looks OK at first, but really, should it be “1 in 12 has ...’? And then you have ‘their’ to deal with.” Read More