Photo by Ellen Ferrara
Shirley Rodgers checks the temperature of her husband Don at First Baptist Church.

•October 14, 2020•
by Ellen Ferrera
NP Writer

Fifty years from now today’s generation will recall 2020 as the year of the great pandemic. They will talk of the masks, the plastic shields, the marked standing spaces in stores and speak reverently of those who died alone in hospital beds. They will remember the creative ways in which we were forced to adapt.
Science tells us that adaptation is the first law of survival. Covid-19 has required that we very social humans greatly alter the ways in which we interact with each other. This has placed a great burden on schools, nursing homes and, especially, churches where our one foundation is Jesus Christ our Lord but weekly offerings pay the bills.
A recent Sunday was devoted to visiting several local churches to see what protocols they had instituted to protect the congregations and how the pandemic had altered their Sunday services. Read More

•October 14, 2020•
by Crystal Reed
NP Writer

During Monday night’s Sullivan City Council meeting motions were passed to proceed with the Eastview Drainage project and to implement a sidewalk program. The motion for the Eastview Drainage project was to pursue solutions to the drainage issues in the Eastview Subdivision.
Commissioner Peggy Hargis asked that they not do this at this time. “I think this is my job to put this on the agenda,” she said. The motion was passed with Commissioner Hargis voting no.
The next motion was to implement a sidewalk program. The motion was to pursue a funded citywide sidewalk replacement and construction program. Commissioner Hargis said that according to ordinances that the homeowner has to pay for that. The motion passed with Commissioners Abbey Sherwood and Peggy Hargis voting no. Read More