Photo by Crystal Reed
Stations of the Cross
On Good Friday, the Bethany Ministerial Alliance hosted the Stations of the Cross on Main Street in Bethany. The path started at Bethany Free Methodist Church and ended across the street where the grocery store used to be. At various locations on Main Street the group stopped for responsive readings, prayer and singing. Pictured are Marge Overlot (left) and Pastor Rob Roy (right).
Photo by Crystal Reed
Vendors for Spores ‘n More
One of the vendors outside the Red Barn for the festival was What the fudge-Cole’s fudgery of Windsor. Pictured is Aaron Cole and his daughter Lilly.
Photo by Crystal Reed
Spores ‘n More in Windsor
On Saturday, April 23, the Spores ‘n More festival was held in Windsor. Pictured are smallest mushroom winner Kynlee Hopkins (left) and largest mushroom winner Chris Pesch. Hopkins mushroom was a total of 24 mm in size. Pesch found a mushroom that was a total of 382 mm.
Photo by Crystal Reed
Bake Sale
Kelly Wheeler and Lori Curry had a variety of baked goods for sale by donation to benefit the Windsor Post Prom. Other activities during Spores ‘n More included a meal at the Windsor American Legion, vendor fair at The Red Barn and announcement of the mushroom hunt winners.
Photo by Crystal Reed
Tree Planted in Memory of Ron Burgess
On Thursday, April 21, a tree was planted in memory of Ron Burgess. Ron’s family attended along with various department personnel. Gravy was added to the soil before filling in dirt.
•April 27, 2022•
by Ariana Cherry
NP Writer
Amish representatives Richard and Daniel were present, as well as the new recommendation for the Atwood-Hammond Grade School principal, Chris Forman and his family at the recent school board meeting of the ALAH Community School District held Wednesday, April 20 in the high school cafeteria.
Superintendent Shannon Cheek introduced Forman, who is married with two children, and gave a brief statement of his background and work history. Forman was born in the Jacksonville area and lived in Mahomet for 14 years. He also worked in Beijing, China for two years. After the closed session of the meeting, the board hired him as the new Atwood-Hammond Grade School principal beginning with the 2022-2023 school year. Read More
•April 27, 2022•
by Crystal Reed
NP Writer
The Sullivan City Council approved employee raises during Monday’s meeting. A motion was made by Commissioner Abbey Sherwood to approve a 75-cent raise for full time, non-union employees. Commissioner Chuck Woodworth spoke on the fact that water plant employees have been under union negotiations since 2020 and have not received raises for the past three years. He said that he wanted to give those raises to those employees. The total amount for the five employees is $13,018.82 which they have not received. “I think we should move forward with this,” Woodworth said. A vote was taken to amend the initial proposed motion, and a motion was proposed to include the water plant employees. Both were passed. Read More
Photo by Crystal Reed
Rabies Clinic at Marrowbone Public
Library
On Wednesday, April 13 a rabies clinic was held at Marrowbone Public Library with services from Kaskaskia Valley Animal Hospital. Pictured are Dr. Florey and Ciera Williams with one of the dogs that came in for a shot.
Photo by Crystal Reed
Library Easter Egg Hunt
The Elizabeth Titus Memorial Library had story time on Wednesday, April 13. Children were read a story about Easter eggs and then went on an egg hunt in the children’s area of the library. Pictured is Tynleigh Cowell who was one of the children participating.
Photo by Crystal Reed
Third Graders Board the Titanic
Jennifer Hostetler’s third grade class at Lovington Grade School boarded the Titanic on Monday, April 11. Students were assigned the name of a person who was aboard the Titanic and could dress in character. Students were also separated out by the social classes when boarding the ship to determine their seat. All of their school subjects for the day had a Titanic focus.
Photo by Crystal Reed
Easter Hams Donated to Food Pantry
As Easter dinner came around and the Moultrie County Food Pantry received a donation of hams from Sullivan IGA to give to families for Easter Sunday. The donation was made possible by one anonymous person whose spirit exemplifies the season. The IGA meat department made a special delivery on Wednesday, April 13 to make sure the hams arrived in time for Sunday dinner. Pictured are (in no order): Seth Cobb, Cameron Eccles, Timothy VanDeursen, Mason Harner and Judy Sumner.
•April 20, 2022•
by Crystal Reed
NP Writer
A new business to our area will be holding an after hours on Thursday, April 28 from 4 to 6 pm at 5 West Jefferson in Sullivan. There will be complimentary cocktails, light hors d’oeuvres and giveaways.
Shelby Realty started out in 1973 based out of Shelbyville. Owner Matt Forcum purchased the business in December 2020. He is a graduate of Lake Land College and Eastern Illinois University.
The realty company has 8 agents, “Any of our agents can handle any type of property,” Forcum said. Prior to purchasing Shelby Realty he was a realtor with Century 21 franchise in Effingham for 13 years. Read More