•January 19, 2022•

Registered voters in Moultrie County will be receiving new Voter Identification Cards within the next week. As required by law, the County Clerk’s office is in the process of completing a purge of Moultrie County voters. County Clerk Georgia England explained that a purge is done to help maintain voter registrations by keeping them current and up-to-date, and to eliminate voters that are deceased, or have moved from Moultrie County.
England urges voters to check their voter card and familiarize themselves with their districts and polling location. This is particularly important for voters in Lowe Precinct and Jonathan Creek Precinct, as the Legislative Districts may have changed due to the Census mapping; and for Sullivan Precincts since the Precincts were recently redrawn to redistribute the number of registered voters in Sullivan Township. Voters should sign the new card and destroy their old card. Read More

•January 19, 2022•

The Moultrie County Food Pantry collaborated with Flesor’s Candy Kitchen again last year for their annual Food Pantry Candy Sale, donating 20% of their sales to the Moultrie County Food Pantry. The fundraiser broke a record again last year with the amount of candy sold and money donated to the pantry, with a record donation of $2,000.00 to the food pantry. CEFS Moultrie County Food Pantry thanks all donors and participants.

•January 12, 2022•

Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Revenue announced that victims of severe storms, straight-line winds and tornadoes beginning December 10, 2021 now have until May 16, 2022, to file various individual and business tax returns and make income tax payments.
“As Illinois communities build back from December’s severe storms, my administration is committed to supporting the recovery process every step of the way,” said Governor JB Pritzker. “Residents who live or have a business in the impacted area won’t have to worry about incurring penalties and interest on their state or federal tax deadlines until May, giving them additional time to gather essential paperwork and get their affairs in order on the road to rebuild.”
Following a disaster proclamation issued by Governor Pritzker, tax filing relief is now available to taxpayers who live or have a business in Bond, Cass, Coles, Effingham, Fayette, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Menard, Montgomery, Morgan, Moultrie, Pike and Shelby counties.
The tax relief postpones various tax filing deadlines and relieves certain late payment penalties starting on December 10. As a result, affected individuals and businesses will have until May 16 to file returns and pay any income taxes that were originally due during this period. This includes 2021 individual income tax returns due on April 18, as well as various 2021 business returns normally due on March 15 and April 18.
Impacted taxpayers also have until the May 16 deadline to make quarterly estimated income tax payments due on January 18 and April 18 without incurring penalties. Among other things, this means that individual taxpayers can defer making the fourth quarter estimated tax payment, normally due January 18, 2022, and instead include it with the 2021 return they file, on or before May 16.
Furthermore, no penalties will be assessed on the quarterly withholding income tax returns normally due on January 31 and May 2, 2022 provided they are filed by the May 16 deadline, nor on late payments of withholding income tax due between December 10 and December 26, as long as the required payments were made by December 27, 2021.
If filing a return via postal mail, taxpayers should write “Tornado-December 2021” on the top of their returns in red. If filing electronically, taxpayers must notify the department that their return will be delayed by emailing REV.DisasterRelief@Illinois.gov. They should provide their full name, account number (if using a social security number, only include the last four digits), mailing address and an estimate of when they believe they can file or pay their taxes.

•January 12, 2022•

A local student has made the Dean’s List for the Fall 2021 semester at Maryville College in Maryville, Tenn. Consideration for the Dean’s List is open to full-time students who have a grade point average of at least 3.6 in all work undertaken, no grade below a “C” and no incompletes for the semester. Among those named to the Dean’s List is Hannah Landreth of Bethany. Landreth is majoring in Finance/Accounting.

•January 12, 2022•

The 2022 Sullivan town wide rummage sales are scheduled for the first weekend in June (June 3 & 4).