Big Spring Day

•July 31, 2024•

by Janet Roney

Big Spring Township, Shelby County, Illinois, was soft, tender, and flooded with new life that May day in 1999. There were no hard edges, even on the dissolving lichen covered sandstone tombstones in Spain Cemetery. 

It was like being in a wet-in-wet watercolor as it was painted all around us. Low hanging clouds of Paynes Gray seeped into the Thalo Green tree line on the far south edge of the Little Wabash River bottom, mixing the colors. Low rumbling thunder, dampened by the spongy atmosphere, pulsed softly from just over the horizon to the west. A ray of diffused sunlight penetrated the flowing energy of the approaching storm, warming us in yellow green light as we watched from Spain Cemetery Hill. Read More

A Place for Everything

•July 24, 2024•

by Janet Roney

My German grandmother used to say, “A place for everything and everything in its place.” I try, but I am surprised and pleased when I find something of mine actually in its place. The MCCD was pleased when we found the Kaskaskia-Detroit Road and Hubbard’s Trace branches in their place, too.

In the early spring of 1999, the Moultrie County Corps of Discovery took several hikes in the woods along Jonathan Creek between the Masonic Home and Nelson Ford looking for evidence. On the first hike, we walked south from the IDNR parking cove at the top of the hill east of the Jonathan Creek bottom land (across the road from Reuben Chupp). After entering the IDNR woodland about ¼ mile south of the parking lot, we crossed a ravine and climbed another hill.  Read More

•July 24, 2024•

Windsor School District is welcoming a new principal, Liz King. King grew up in Sigel, graduating high school in Teutopolis she went on to pursue education and received her bachelor’s degree in Communication Education and a master’s degree in Communication Studies from Illinois State University. Read More

2014

The old horseshoe pits in Lovington’s Tom Conn Park held the memories of many residents as they watched or played horseshoes with friends and family. But last year the pits were removed to accommodate the new skate park. Yet, towards the end of the planning for the skate park project, Sara Gale approached the board to reinstall the horseshoe pits in a different location to keep alive the memory of her father Emmett Burcham, who was a champion thrower. Read More

•July 24, 2024•

2nd - Kids craft form 3:30-4:30 p.m. We will be making a paper plate camper.

5th & 19th - Needle Night from 5-7 p.m. If you would like to learn to crochet, knit, needlepoint, or even how to sew we have people that can help teach you. If you already know how and just want to hang out come join us.

6th - Story time from 10-10:30 a.m.

9th - Lego time from 3:30-4:30 p.m.

12th - Adult Craft Club from 5-7 p.m. Bring whatever craft you are working on and join us. We will be sharing ideas and techniques.

13th - Tyke time from 10-10:30 a.m.

16th - Recipe Swap all day. This month we will be sharing our favorite 5-ingredient dinners.

20th - S.T.E.A.M time form 3:30-4:30 p.m. Read More