•February 1, 2023•

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Sullivan Elementary students and staff were able to sign one of two I-beams that will be part of the sixteen classroom addition to the school.

by Ted Walk
Sullivan School District Superintendent

Construction of a sixteen classroom addition to the Sullivan Elementary School commenced last fall. The classroom addition will allow the 5th grade students to return to SES. Fifth grade students have been housed in the middle school for the past several years due to a lack of classroom availability at SES. Read More

•January 25, 2023•
by Ariana R. Cherry

"The track is not in good shape. It is beyond repair and beyond “sticking band-aids on it,” Superintendent Shannon Cheek said at the most recent ALAH Board of Education meeting. Cheek informed the board that the district has two options in repairing the track. One option is to take down the track and do minor repair for the subsurface and then go back and resurface the track. That option would make the track last awhile. The most expensive option would be taking the subsection down and repouring the track which would cost double. A motion was passed to allow Cheek to seek bids for the repairing of the track.
Those in attendance at the meeting got to see a drone in flight. Agriculture teacher Megan Beckmier had a couple of her students (Brodey Lowden and Nova Shoemaker) give a drone demonstration. She stated that there are a lot of opportunities with drones for agriculture. Her class has been learning about drones through a program called 4H Drones in Agriculture through the University of Illinois. The class is allowed to use the drones for four weeks. At the end of the program, students will get to create an obstacle course and fly it. Read More

Photo by Crystal Reed
Roger and Donna Walker donated blood at the drive held at Lovington Christian Church on Wednesday, January 4.

•January 11, 2023•
by Crystal Reed

There is a currently a blood shortage, and reasons being given for it are the holiday season, seasonal illness and weather causing drives to be cancelled. “This time of the year is challenging for collecting blood,” said Brian Williamsen, Communications Manager for the Illinois Regional American Red Cross. The American Red Cross supplies 40% of the nation’s blood.
January is National Blood Donor Month. Tina Fleenor, Territory Coordinator for ImpactLife said they try to have good promo vouchers for their donors to encourage them to come out to the blood drives in their areas as well as their donor centers across the four states they service. “The winter storms right before Christmas hit our region pretty hard with donors not able to get out due to the frigid temperatures,” she said. “Quite a few places we had drives set up closed the day of their drive so that left a lot of “promised” donations by the wayside.” Read More

•January 4, 2023•
June

Memorial Day services were held in Sullivan, Bethany, Findlay and Windsor. At the ceremony in Greenhill Cemetery in Sullivan, Mayor Richard Glazebrook spoke. In Bethany the service was held at Marrowbone Township Cemetery and the speaker was Pastor Rob Roy.
Kristi Hart was appointed as Planning and Zoning Director at the May meeting of the Moultrie County Board. Hart was born in Bethany and has four daughters.
ALAH held their commencement on the football field. Valedictorian was Jacob Duzan and salutatorian Max Allen.
Seth Webner built a bus shelter to keep students waiting for the school bus out of the elements on inclement weather day. The community service project was part of the process towards earning his Eagle Scout rank. The bus shelter is located near Vander Burgh Financial Service in Bethany. Read More