Senior Peace Meal
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Monday, February 10 - Beef tips in gravy, mashed potatoes, Italian green beans w/tomato, onion and bacon, Texas toast, mandarin oranges
Tuesday, February 11 - Ham and beans, pickled beets, cornbread, peaches
Wednesday, February 12 - Turkey pot roast w/baby carrots & celery, corn casserole, dinner roll, pineapple tidbits
Thursday, February 13 - Meatloaf, Delmonico potatoes, broccoli & cauliflower, dinner roll, cranberry apple salad
Friday, February 14 - Stuffed peppers, peas and carrots, bean medley, whole grain wheat (1), gelatin w/fruit

•February 5, 2020•
By Ted Walk
Supt.Sullivan CUSD #300

The average enrollment per grade at Sullivan Schools is about 84 students.
Our largest class is 7th grade, which currently has 109 students.
There are a number of challenges that arise when one specific grade has approximately 30% more students than the typical class that comes through.
The number of sections of each subject offered varies. During the fall semester, there were five sections of Literature and Language offered for 7th grade students, creating an average class size of nearly 22 students. Read More

•February 5, 2020•

Zoe Ray, a freshman from Sullivan was among students placed on the Dean’s List at Greenville University for the Fall 2019 semester.
Greenville University is a four-year accredited Christian liberal arts school with more than 1,400 undergraduate and graduate students. Founded in 1892 and affiliated with the Free Methodist Church, the college is located in Greenville, Illinois, 45 miles east of St. Louis.

25 Years Ago This Week

Bethany School Supt. Marilyn Bailey explained if the district continues $116,164 annual deficits the eduction fund will be in debt $1,257,453 by July 30, 1999. Before a crowd of 20 people the school board voted to proceed with a property tax referendum.
The Bethany Mustangs beat Illiopolis 62-49 in the opening round of the tournament at Blue Mound. Phil Ozier led the Mustangs with 15 points, Kevin Bowser scored 14 points along with 10 rebounds and Adam Gurchieck chipped in with 11 points.
Despite injuries and a ten point deficit at the half the Sullivan Lady Redskins beat the Warrensburg-Latham Cardinals 55-50. Sullivan hit 6 of 12 free throws in the fourth quarter with Bobbi Bone shooting 4-4 and Allyson Glazebrook 2-4 totaling 12 points for the night. Carrie Bennet led the Redskins with 14 points and 12 rebounds. Read More

•February 5, 2020•
By Jim Nowlan
NP Guest Columnist

According to a late 2019 piece in the New York Times, one in five newspapers in America has been shuttered over the past 15 years, and journalist numbers cut in half. This bodes ill for the vibrancy of communities, for which newspapers have been the essential glue, prod and town crier.
We must stop wringing our hands and instead devise alternatives, just as news in paper form in the 18th century replaced the news shouted out earlier by the town criers.
My dad ran the Stark County News in Toulon post-World War II. As a teen in the 1950s, I sat at the huge keyboard of a Model 14 Linotype, a balky iron and steel beast that spit out lines of type from molten lead. It was high tech!
On Wednesday afternoons, townsfolk crowded, literally, the corridor of the post office, waiting impatiently for Billy Humphrey to stuff the new edition into their mailboxes. The paper included one or two pages of “personals,” of “Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Jackson spending the weekend in Mahomet with Mrs. Jackson’s parents. They all enjoyed dinner in Champaign Saturday evening.” Personals were the Facebook of 70 years ago. Read More