A food service sanitation manager’s course will be offered 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, December 16 and Wednesday, December 18 at ILEAS Training Center, (former Champaign Co Nursing Home), 1701 E Main St. in Urbana. The exam will be 9-11 a.m. Monday, December 23 at ILEAS. Persons needing recertification for their Illinois Dept. of Public Health certificate may attend the second day, Wednesday, December 18, from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Read More

A diamond elephant pin, a Liberty Head gold piece, and a lot of vintage baseball cards are just some of the items that Illinois State Treasurer Dan Rutherford is offering in the next Illinois Treasurer’s Online Unclaimed Property Auction. It started at 10 a.m. Monday, November 18 and will begin closing at 10 a.m. on Friday, November 22. Those interested in seeing the items up for bid should go to the treasurer’s office’s website at www.treasurer.il.gov and click on the auction preview button. Read More

The Moultrie County Historical & Genealogical Society will hold their annual dinner and program Thursday, November 21 at the First United Methodist Church in Sullivan (located across from the fire station). Read More

Phelps

Attending the Eastern Illinois District Association of Student Councils 79th annual district convention at Eastern Illinois University Tuesday, Sullivan High School junior Beretta Phelps was elected as the district's vice-president.

Phelps, who also serves as Sullivan's vice-president, will serve in her role for the third largest district in the state.

The  Eastern district, of which Sullivan is a member, is made up of 16 other schools including Windsor, Okaw Valley, Mattoon, Effingham, Shelbyville, Altamont, and Paris, among others.

Phelps will be officially sworn in at the December meeting, replacing outgoing Kristen Frohning of Newton.

Kirsten Taylor, an Eastern Illinois University student from Sullivan, won first place in the freshman/sophomore division of the 2013 Illinois Sociological Association Undergraduate Student Paper Competition. Read More