•January 22, 2025•

7th Grade Honor Roll: Baymen Dyer, Jocelyn French

7th Grade High Honors: Rihanna Baker, Kailynn Burley, Addisyn Clark, Jeslyn Kemper, Dayton Montgomery, Alma Peadro, Briley Rincker, Emery Voris, Laura Will

8th Grade High Honor Roll: Lily Ault, Lila Cramner, Jackson Hartman, Faith Hendrickson, Mathilda Kasey, Addison Montgomery, Arora Rincker, Briar Rincker, Bryce Rincker

9th Grade Honor Roll: Madison Carter, Maxwell Jeffries, Evan Pfeiffer, Ellenor Walker

9th Grade High Honor Roll: Monica Baker, Ellyn Boyer, Bryar Cowger, Owen Figgins, Emma Hickman, Peter Mast, Madison Sears

10th Grade Honor Roll: Elizabeth Cloe, Ryan Harris, Zoey McDaniel

10th Grade High Honor Roll: Ava Ballinger, Brody Barnard, Addilyn Bly, Logan Corrie, Clarissa Johnson, Grace Mast, Paisley Montgomery, Allie Upton

11th Grade Honor Roll: Ryker McDaniel, Olivia Rogers

11th Grade High Honor Roll: Alicia Camacho, Cameron Carey, Annaleise Cowger, Matthew Dennis, Haylee Downs, Alexis Gee, Ethan Goers, Hailey Goers, Tyler Hunter, Leak Kasey, Kyra Kitch, Bailey Owens, Landon Postlewait, Seth Rincker, Payton Shupe, Branson Tingley, Patton Voris

12th Grade Honor Roll: Karissa Sanders

12th Grade High Honor Roll: Chiara Campanelli, Aubrey Carter, Luke Dispennett, Anthony Harris, Rylan Rincker, Josephine Roberts, Avery Starwalt, Halle Wright

•January 22, 2025•

The Windsor School District and the Project HELP Preschool program will be offering free developmental screenings to provide parents an opportunity to discover how their child is developing in the areas of speech, language, concepts and motor skills. Vision and hearing screenings will also be provided, free of charge. The free screenings will begin on Friday, March 28th at the Windsor Christian Church, 1101 Broadway.  

To find out what preschool options are available in your community, schedule an appointment to have your child screened by contacting Missy Hendrickson at (217)459-2447. Signed parent/guardian permission required. Screening are required for possible enrollment in the Project HELP preschool classroom.

•January 15, 2025•

Another free laundry will be provided by the collaboration of The Moultrie Shelby County ROSC, ACE Hardware and DOVE inc. The groups once again has pulled together to offer a free laundry day on January 30th, at the Sullivan Wash and Fold, previously known as the Rainbow Wash House, at 809 W Jackson St. in Sullivan. The free event will run from 9-12pm.  

For further questions or donations to a future laundry day, contact Skylar Miller at Skylark@hourhouserecovery.org. Naloxone and Naloxone trainings will be readily available to community members during this event.

•January 8, 2025•

Eastern Illinois University encourages eligible students to explore two of the University’s highest-impact scholarships and to submit their application materials by the shared January 10 deadline. 

Two unique opportunities are being championed by EIU scholarship coordinators ahead of this Friday’s deadline—EIU’s Presidential Scholarships and EIU’s Sarah Bush Lincoln Nursing Scholarships. Both are high-impact, high-reward scholarships for top-performing, admitted EIU freshman. Details on each are available below:

EIU’s Presidential Scholarships—EIU’s Presidential Scholarships are available to incoming, admitted freshmen with eligible GPAs or ACT/SAT composite scores. For exceptionally strong incoming freshmen, the Sandra and Jack Pine Honors College offers three different competitive scholarships awarded over four years:

• Full-ride Pemberton Presidential Scholarship* (approximately $101,000 over four years)

• Full-tuition Presidential Scholarship* (approximately $55,000 over four years)

• Honors Award for Incoming Freshmen (approximately $14,000 over four years, in addition to the automatic Merit Scholarship, worth up to $16,000 over four years, for a total of approximately $30,000 over four years)

*Applicants for the Pemberton Presidential and the Presidential Scholarship are also considered as applicants for the Honors Award. Students do not need to complete an additional application for the Honors Award.

EIU’s Sarah Bush Lincoln Nursing Scholarships for the EIU Gail & Richard Lumpkin School of Nursing—these are full-ride scholarships for local, high-achieving, first-semester Nursing students meeting eligible GPA requirements. Recipients must be a full-time admitted incoming freshman majoring in Pre-Nursing or Nursing. This scholarship is available to students from 10 of EIU’s surrounding counties across East Central Illinois.

Interested applicants can visit eiu.edu/nurse/SBL_Scholarship.php for more details.

Note that while these two scholarship opportunities have application deadlines of January 10, most other EIU scholarships have a deadline of March 15. For students looking for opportunities beyond what’s outlined here, interested applicants can access hundreds of other available scholarships and eligibility guidelines through eiu.academicworks.com. Students can log in with their EIU NetID and password to see and apply to scholarships tailored to their academic/demographic profile(s). 

EIU awarded more than $49 million in gift aid to nearly 4,000 undergraduate students last academic year, averaging $12,587 in support per student. This assistance helps EIU remain the lowest cost-of-attendance University in Illinois.

EIU prepares students to accomplish their life goals through a combination of quality academics, personal relationships, and both on-campus and online learning opportunities. For more information about Eastern Illinois University, including its broad array of academic and career readiness programs, or any of EIU’s other community-based services and opportunities, visit eiu.edu or call EIU’s public information office at (217) 581-7400. 

•January 8, 2025•

The Bethany Senior Citizen Potluck will be held on Wednesday, January 15 at 11 am at the Bethany library. Ham and Beans will be furnished. All are welcome.