•February 19, 2025•
SHS freshman River Polley, his parents Brenda and Jason Polley, and retired SHS English teacher Becky Lawson recently learned that their entry won first place in the “essay with photograph” division of the 2024 Rachel Carson Intergenerational Sense of Wonder/Sense of the Wild Contest.
An email from Ling Tan, an associate with the Rachel Carson Landmark Alliance, included a judge’s statement about their entry, “The Calling of the Rivers.”
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•February 12, 2025•
Veterans and current members of the military will get some new socks soon as members of the East Central Illinois Red Cross Club are currently holding a Socks for Soldiers Drive to support them.
The club’s final push of the drive will take place at the February 14 home basketball game at Sullivan High School where they will collect socks and accept monetary donations in addition to holding a raffle for a 5 pound Hershey’s candy bar. Raffle tickets will sell for $1 each or 6 for $5.
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•February 5, 2025•
Saturday, December 14th the Dolphins hosted the Bloomington Normal and Funky Fish Swim Team for the Christmas Jingle Invitational.
The following swimmers are the high point winners from the Christmas Jingle Invitational. 8u girls: Emme Kirkley 1st Stella Perrott & Natalie Rahn 3rd 8u boys: Owen Pogue 3rd 9-10 girls: Kinsley Eads 1st & Millie Hendry 3rd 9-10 boys: Jack VanUytven 1st & Bryce Badman 3rd 11-12: girls Avery Hess 1st & Micheala Blinkensderder 2nd 11-12: boys Jace VanUytven 1st & Mack Pogue 3rd 13-14: girls Addy Hendry 1st 13-14: boys Charles Guyot 1st Open age girls: Emily Crosier 1st, Emerson Risley 2nd, Cadence Schmohe 3rd Open age boys: Nathan Rafferty 1st, Grant Martin 2nd, Henry Woolery 3rd
•January 29, 2025•
Sullivan High School’s Mirror Images Club is a preventative-theatre student-led organization. They annually write, direct, and perform a play with themes developed in order to identify issues and topics that are important to the student body at the time.
This year’s performance, “Overcome”, is directed by SHS Juniors Cora Emel and Abagail Dean. The students have been developing characters, themes, and writing the script since September. This year’s key issue they are addressing is toxic leadership.
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•January 22, 2025•
by E. Scott England
The Sullivan CUSD #300 school board held its regularly scheduled meeting Monday, January 13th. All members were present.
Per usual, the meeting started with updates from both NEHS and NHS. Both reports were abbreviated thanks to a shortened December month. NEHS is excited to start pen pal letters with elementary schools. This program begins this month and last through April. They will finish with an in person event where they get to meet their pen pals.
NHS continues to recognize teachers at all three buildings for their hard work. It was reported that Military Appreciation night had to be cancelled for this year. Both student groups joined forces to decorate and prepare for this event, but due to inclement weather, the event had to be postponed. Unfortunately, the remaining schedule of games does not allow it to be rescheduled this year.
Read More•January 15, 2025•
by Sharon Barricklow
The Sullivan City Council started the new year with a new meeting date after moving their regular meetings to the second and fourth Mondays of the month.
The council worked quickly through an agenda largely with modifications to the Tax Increment Financing District resolutions, and held a closed to the public session to discuss employee negotiations.
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•January 8, 2025•
Over the few weeks of December the Village of Bethany had a Christmas light contest with the residents, with winning prizes being utility credit. Through the days December 9th and the 25th, judges visited homes and ranked contestants lights, the results are in.
First place: David Martin, $100 utility credit
Second place: Sam Ozier, $50 utility credit
Third place: Tyler Wagy, $50 utility credit
Honorable mentions: Denise Orris, JC Fultz, Jim McMahan and Robert and Nicole Dick, $25 utility credit per family.
•January 1, 2025•
by Sharon Barricklow
The Sullivan City Council wrapped up their 2024 meeting schedule Thursday night by approving annexing some property and revising some city codes.
The council opened the meeting with a public hearing on a plan to annex Windmill Legacy Farms, south of the city on South Hamilton Street west side of the road. During the hearing, Mayor Mike Mossman was asked if there are current plans to develop the five plus acre property.
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•December 25, 2024•
The Sullivan Elementary 3rd graders put on a special performance on the morning of Thursday, December 19th at the Mid-Illinois Senior Services center, singing Christmas songs, reading poems and wishing for gifts from Santa for all to see.
The estimated 80 students filed into their lines and began their performance with seasonal favorites like Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman and Deck the Halls.
“Dear Santa Claus, it’s me again and I’m here to remind you I’m here and have a list of gift this year,” recited all the students, “A stack of comic books, a dozen apple pies, a box of chocolate brownies and an elephant that flies!”
The program continued with groups standing to perform speaking parts thanking the audience for watching and wishing for gifts from Santa in between songs and poems.
•December 18, 2024•
Submitted by the
Bethany Fire Protection District
Bethany Fire Protection District is raising awareness about fire decoration safety during the holiday season by participating in “Keep the Wreath Red” program. The wreath is hanging above the entrance to the fire station to remind residents to keep fire safety a priority during the holidays, especially when decorating. The red bulbs are changed out for white if the department responds to a fire caused by holiday decorations. The Keep the Wreath Red campaign began in 1954 in Naperville and adopted by the Illinois Fire Chief Association in 1980. Bethany Fire Protection District has participated in this program for many years.
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