•January 21, 2026•

Lake Land College is accepting nominations for the Distinguished Service Award, Pacesetter Award, Retiree Wall of Fame, Distinguished Alumnus Award/Alumnus Achievement Award, and Distinguished Alumni Society. All nominations for these listed awards will be accepted until February 1st, 2026. Nomination forms for all awards are available on the College’s website at LakeLandCollege.edu/Alumni/Award-Nominations/. Physical copies of each form are available by calling the Foundation at (217) 234-5376. The recipient of each award will be recognized during the annual Foundation & Alumni Awards Ceremony in October.

•January 21, 2026•

‘Sheep to Clothing to Quilts’ will return to the Illinois Amish Heritage Center on Saturday, May 2nd, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The event will feature sheep and alpaca shearing demonstrations, processing the wool, and making clothing and quilts from the shared materials. There will also be numerous activities for children, including pony cart rides and a petting zoo with a variety of farm animals, as well as household pets. 

A farmer’s breakfast of pancakes, old-fashioned liverwurst, and grilled sausage will be offered for a fee starting at 7:00 a.m. In keeping with the theme, grilled lamb kabobs will be available for lunch, as well as hamburgers and other grilled sandwiches and fried foods. Baked goods, including homemade bread, cookies, cakes, and pies, will be sold by a local Amish vendor. 

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Winning has never felt so good. “I haven’t seen the kids smile that big in a while,” said Sullivan girls basketball coach Amanda Glazebrook. The smiles came after the Lady Redskins stopped a 14-game losing streak with a 49-36 victory over Argenta-Oreana Thursday night.

The libraries in Lovington, Bethany, and Sullivan are among four area libraries that have been awarded $4,000 grants under the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). The grant, entitled “Weed and Feed: Knowledge Unlimited,” is administered by the Illinois State Library, a division of the Illinois Secretary of State’s Office, and is funded by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Cheryl Coddington, from Fast Stop, recently presented a check to Crystal Edwards, Moultrie County CEFS Coordinator. Those who used Pump 1 or Pump 2 with the Spirit Pump wrap during November and December, with one penny per gallon being raised for a local charity, enabled Fast Stop to donate $418.52 to CEFS. Looking ahead, the January/February Spirit Pump donations will go to Sullivan AMBUCS. 

July continued from  1.7.26 Edition

This past Saturday, July 19th, Bluey paid a visit to his fans at Sullivan’s Elizabeth Titus Memorial Library. In addition to hugs and playing games with Bluey, stations were set up that attendees enjoyed, such as an arts and crafts station, a coloring station, face painting, balloon games, and a playtime library checkout desk, which allowed for a popular game of pretend. 

Sullivan Preschool held an Open House on Friday, August 1st, at its facility located at 10 Hawthorne Lane in Sullivan. The public was invited to tour the school and meet the staff and Board of Directors. The children’s creative work was be displayed, and refreshments were served.

On Tuesday, July 22nd, Linda Henry from the Moultrie County Soil and Water Conservation District provided a fun and educational water conservation activity for local youth at the Lovington Library, focused on water conservation. Mrs. Henry used a terrarium-building project to demonstrate water conservation, hands-on.

Locals and non-locals alike gathered in Findlay on Friday, July 25th, and Saturday, the 26th, to celebrate the 37th annual Walleye Festival. On offer were everything from a Kid Zone, beer tent, American Legion Dinner, vendors, food trucks, firehouse obstacle course, to a pedal pull, car show, live musical performances, tractor pull, and the parade, which drew a sizable crowd for the town of approximately 700 residents. There was something for everyone, and the atmosphere was one of very good cheer, despite the record-hot, humid weather experienced in the region the past two weeks.