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ALAH Loses to Tuscola

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•February 3, 20201•
by Jason Brown
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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.
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Atwood-Hammond Grade School Honors

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•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.

We Strove for the Future, but the Past was our Foundation

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•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

Five-Year-Old and His Mother Rescue Neighbor From Pond

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•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

Remember Whyen? 2-3-2021

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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

Our Elections Are Safeguarded From Fraud

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•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

Help Wanted: People of action with names to prove it

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•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

Arthur Grade School 2nd Quarter Honor Roll

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•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

Bates Takes Third in District Contest

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•February 3, 20201•
By Crystal Reed
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Sullivan High School sophomore Paul Bates took third in the district contest for the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ Voice of Democracy competition. Bates said that the district competition included entrants from the five surrounding counties.
His essay won at the high school level which advanced him to the district level. This year’s essay theme was “Is This The Country That The Founders Envisioned?”
Bates said that his essay focused on how the founder of our country set out to make us a free and properous nation and how he thinks that has come to friution. In addition to writing the actual essay he had to record himself reading the essay and place the file on a flash drive to be submitted.
“I thought it was a good way to get my opinion out there and good practice to learn to write better,” Bates said.

Scholarship Applications Available

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•February 3, 20201•

Applications are now available for the 2021 Irrevocable Scholarship program offered through the Sullivan American Legion Post 68. The scholarship is open to high school seniors who will be graduating from public high schools in Moultrie County and high school seniors that are descendants of members in good standing of the Sullivan American Legion Post 68. The program offers one $1,000 four year, annually renewable scholarship. Application deadline is March 31,2021. Copies of the application packet may be requested from your high school counselor. Applications have been distributed to Bethany and Sullivan High Schools. Applications can also be requested by calling the legion post at 217-728-4612 or Michael Keown, secretary of the Irrevocable Scholarship Trust at 217-855-1949.