•September 19, 2018•

Moultrie County Clerk, Georgia England, announced that Okaw Valley CUSD #302 Board Candidate packets for the April 2, 2019 Consolidated Election are available for pickup in the Moultrie County Clerk’s office located in the Courthouse, 10 S. Main, Ste. 6 in Sullivan. Read More

To the Editor:

It had to have been somebody in an urban area, probably Chicago, who proposed the Illinois vehicle mileage tax.
Probably everybody has heard about the VMT by now, but if enacted there would be a device in your car to measure how many miles you drive, and you would be taxed 1.5 cents per mile. For those who consider it too invasive to have one of these devices in your car, you would be charged a flat $450 (yes, four hundred fifty dollars) per year. Read More

25 Years Ago This Week

Sullivan High School junior Tony Armstrong has been appointed to the Student Advisory Council to the Illinois State Board of Education. Armstrong plans to voice his concerns about the increase in drug and alcohol use by high school students. He feels that teachers need to be more inspirational and be able to involve students who don’t want to be involved.
Lynn Maxedon has announced his candidacy for Moultrie County Sheriff. He will be running against Deputy Sheriff Rieck Kendall. Gerald “Griz” England has announced his candidacy for Moultrie County Clerk. Read More

•September 12, 2018•

Life Chain is a peaceful and prayerful public witness of pro-life individuals standing for 60 minutes praying for our nation and for an end to abortion. This chain is being formed all across our nation and Canada. It is a visual statement of solidarity by the Christian community that abortion kills children and that the church supports the sanctity of human life from the moment of conception until natural death.
Come, stand, hold a sign, and pray with other caring Christians in Sullivan on “National Life Chain Sunday”. This is not for one church or one denomination but for all Christians to participate. Read More

25 Years Ago This Week

There are new faces in the classroom in Bethany and Lovington school districts. Amy Blank comes to Bethany as a new kindergarten teacher and high school volleyball coach, and Lynn Westfall is the junior-senior high art/language arts teacher. Lovington welcomes Maralee Lyons as their new art teacher. Tim Spade will teach industrial arts and photography. Lovington alumni Vicki Newberry takes over as fourth grade teacher. Suzy Crawford of Sullivan will be the teacher for the district’s first early childhood and Project HELP program. Darlene Barlow will be her assistant. Bill Gibson joins the staff as the new business/social studies teacher at the high school.
Sullivan resident Bill Stubblefield has been in the auto selling business for 41 years but claims he never sold a car. Echoing his late father Ray,”I never sold one. But I helped a lot of people pick them out.” During his years in business he saw cars range in price from $3,000 to $25,000. A highlight, he said, was being involved with people. Stubblefield, his wife Marilyn and daughters Kris and Jill are invited, along with friends, to a retirement party held at the American Legion. Read More