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2019-2020 Area Sports Schedules

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•August 28, 2019•
Game listings are by day, date, opponent, level, location,and time.

 

ALAH High School Football:
Fri 08/23/19 Red and Gold Varsity Home 7:00 pm
Fri 08/30/19 Tri-County Varsity Oakland 7:00 pm
Mon 09/02/19 Tri-County Jr. Varsity Oakland 6:00 pm
Fri 09/06/19 Decatur Lutheran Varsity Arthur 7:00 pm
Mon 09/09/19 St. Teresa Jr. Varsity Decatur 6:00 pm
Fri 09/13/19 Cumberland Varsity Arthur 7:00 pm
Mon 09/16/19 Cumberland Jr. Varsity Arthur 6:00 pm
Fri 09/20/19 Arcola Varsity Arcola 7:00 pm
Mon 09/23/19 Arcola Jr. Varsity Arcola 6:00 pm Read More

Scott State Bank Announce Area Promotions

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•August 28, 2019•
The Scott State Bank board of directors recognized the following individuals for their continued outstanding service to the organization.
While their current duties will not change, the promotion reflects the boards confidence in their commitment to the organization.
Kelly Hamilton has been promoted to branch manager at Scott State Bank (Decatur). Hamilton joined Scott State Bank in 2009 and served as assistant branch manager prior to her promotion. Read More

Remember When?

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25 Years Ago This Week

A battalion of new teachers took their posts at Sullivan schools for the first day of the new school year. In the high school the new teachers are Renee Bone, math; Michelle Brister, P.E., health and girls’ basketball coach; Rob Smith, social studies, head boys’ basketball coach; Brett Gayer, English and girls’ assistant basketball coach; Marlene Wirth, unit librarian. At the middle school Colleen Van Deursen will teach fifth grade; Christine Grohler will teach third and fifth grade learning disabilities; Don Typer, kindergarten through fifth grade P.E.; Kathy Turner, library aide; Lance Schneiderman, fifth grade; Diane Pence, guidance counselor; Jim Gardner, social studies; Teresa Riggin, third grade; Arick Shoemaker, fifth grade; Karen Harpster, third grade; and Vicki Budde, fifth grade. New faces at Powers School include Ronna Albritton, second grade; Jane Beatty, kindergarten and Christine Kovacs, second grade. Read More

SAIL Hosts P.A. Orientation

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•August 28, 2019•

Soyland Access to Independent Living, SAIL, will hold a Personal Assistant Orientation for people interested in working as a Personal Assistant. Orientation is at 1 p.m.Tuesday, September 24 at Elizabeth Titus Library in Sullivan.
Personal assistants are employed by people with disabilities to perform household chores and personal care tasks in their homes and are paid by the state of Illinois through the Department of Rehabilitation Program.
No reservation is needed to attend the Personal Assistant Orientation, but participants must arrive by 1 p.m. bring their driver’s license or state ID, Social Security card and be prepared to fill out an application with references. SAIL is a fragrance-free facility and those wearing fragrances will not be allowed to attend the orientation.
For more information about the Personal Assistant Orientation or becoming a Personal Assistant, contact Emily Dobson at 876-8888 or 800-358-8080 or Betty Watkins at 774-4322.

ALAH Knights Returning Lettermen Drive Team Forward

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•August 28, 2019•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports Editor

In his first year as Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond varsity football coach, Ryan Jefferson’s squad finished the season with an overall record of 2-7.
In his second year, Jefferson hopes to utilize his team’s speed, including 12 returning letter winners, to push for a playoff berth.
“Our goals are to be competitive in the conference and to make playoffs,” Jefferson said. “If a conference championship is a realistic possibility later in the season, that’s great. But we want to be consistently competitive, and we’re hopeful that if we are, it will translate to a playoff berth from five or six wins.”
In practice and Friday’s scrimmage, Jefferson has been stressing the importance of the little things, including simple alignment on defense and sharpness with our offensive execution.
“We lacked in both areas last year, and I believe we have already made huge improvements there,” he said. Read More

Blue Dolphin Achieves Amazing Three Weeks of Competition

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Blue Dolphin family with Ethan Schmohe.

•August 28, 2019•
By Jamie Crosier
for The Blue Dolphins

Sullivan Blue Dolphin Ethan Schmohe finished out the summer swim season with three major weekends of swimming.
Head coach Jason Drury said, “Illinois swimming is one of the hardest states. Ethan started his three-week accomplishments at Peoria where he swam at the Regional Time Qualifying Meet. He has been working hard at practice and I knew he had the ability to hit his goals.”
At Regionals, he competed in four events. He had more qualifying events, but his goal was to get a state cut in all four. This is a lofty goal, but he came in focused and achieved the additional State cuts to advance to the State Meet with a full load of events. Schmohe not only got the needed cuts, he dropped time in all four events and took first and second in these four. Read More

Obituaries 8-28-2019: Gertrude Shirey

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Gertrude Shirey

Gertrude Jane Shirey, 98, of Sullivan, passed away at 2:56 a.m. Thursday, August 22, 2019 at Mason Point in Sullivan.
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Monday, August 26 at Southern Baptist Church in Sullivan. Burial will be in Greenhill Cemetery in Sullivan. McMullin-Young Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.   Read More

Sullivan Golfers Place at Course

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•August 28, 2019•
The Sullivan golf team placed ninth with a score of 352 in the John Macek Invitational at the University of Illinois Orange Course Monday.
Hillsboro won the Champaign Centennial hosted tournament with a score of 321.
Layton Ellis recorded the Redskins’ best score at 83 and finished 15th. Read More

A Host of New Coaches in Position for Sullivan Teams

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•August 28, 2019•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports Editor

The Sullivan High School has shuffled a few coaching positions around in preparation for the new school year.
The Redskins will have new coaches in football, baseball, volleyball, softball and cross country.
For fall sports, Sullivan alumnus Nathan Becker has taken over the football team and stepped down as baseball coach, and Christy Molzen has taken over for her third stint as the volleyball coach.
Tabitha Davis was hired as the softball coach, and Jason Badman is taking over for Becker as the baseball coach.
Nathan Becker
Football coach Nathan Becker wants to bring stability to his high school football team. Becker, a 2004 Sullivan graduate, replaces Jeff Myers as football coach. Becker had been an assistant football coach for seven years at Sullivan and had seen himself as a head football coach in the future. Read More

Letter to the Editor on the Fair Graduated Tax

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•August 28, 2019•

Illinois has been stuck with the regressive flat income tax since 1971. Since then, counties across the state have had to increase property and sales taxes to fund education, infrastructure and other priorities.
Supporters of this failing flat income tax system often point to Illinois’ neighbors, saying they are lower tax states. This isn’t the truth. Read More