Prairieland Frontiersmen “Spring Rendezvous”
OVHS Prom King and Queen
Heritage Woods “Easter Eggstravaganza”
Windsor’s Prom Court: A night in Paradise
Dine with a Doc
•April 30, 2025•
The Mid-Illinois Senior Services Center is hosting a free lunch with Jacob Lehr, Senior Program Manager for the Illinois Alzheimer’s Association Chapter, on May 6th from 11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. During this luncheon, attendees can listen and ask the doctor questions, receive door prizes, and enjoy fellowship with their peers.
Read MoreMother’s Day Blooms and Bites
•April 30, 2025•
On Sunday, May 4th at 3:30 p.m., Sullivan First United Methodist Church will be holding a “Mother’s Day Blooms & Bites” event. All supplies will be provided, and a potting class will be led by Buxton’s Garden Farm’s Abbey Sherwood. Decorate your pot and plant it with fresh blooms. Small bites will be provided.
Read MoreArthur Public Library: New releases
•April 30, 2025•
There are three new bestsellers and two other new books at the Arthur Public Library. The new bestsellers are “Great Big Beautiful Life,” by Emily Henry, “Shadow of the Solstice,” by Anne Hillerman, and “The Gut-Brain Paradox: Improve Your Mood, Clear Brain Fog, and Reverse Disease by Healing Your Microbiome” by Steven R. Gundy.
The other two new releases are “Granny Square Style: How to Make Limitless Projects from Ten Classical patterns” by Hyllam Lefevre and “The Librarian of Lisbon” by Suzanne Nelson.
For more details on these books and others, visit: http://wowbrary.org/nu.aspx?fb&p=8452-426 [/s2If]
May Programs at the Lovington Public Library
•April 30, 2025•
May 1st: Kids Craft time will be from 3:30-4:30 p.m. We will be making Mother’s Day Cards.
May 5th & 19th: Needle night from 5:00 -7:00 p.m. If you would like to learn to crochet, knit, needlepoint, or sew, we have people available to teach you. If you have these skills and would like to join us, we look forward to seeing you.
May 6th: Story time is from 10-10:30 a.m.
Read MoreRemembering who we are………56
The Grande Prairie
•April 30, 2025•
by Janet Roney
“Go west, young man, go west!” That was Horace Greely’s advice to a generation of young adventurers and pioneers in the 1800s. We think of the advancement of civilization across America always moving west towards the setting sun, filling up the land with settlers along the way.
Nice assumption, but wrong. Pioneers skipped over whole areas of the continental United States, heading for the best places to live. One of those passed-over areas was central Illinois.
Read MoreA Look Back…4-30-2025
2015
The Red Apple in Sullivan had a quiet reopening after a grease fire the previous year devastated the building and shuttered the restaurant.
Okaw Valley starter Devon Still (7-0) won his seventh game in as many starts while improving the Timberwolves’ overall record to 18-1, after defeating Decatur LSA. Still had an all-conference day fanning 10 of the opposition over seven innings of one-run ball, and helping his cause at the plate going 4-4 with three RBIs. Coach Andrew Hagerman expected nothing less from his senior lefty. “Devon pitched well, which is no surprise.
The SOV girls and boys had several strong performances at a non-scored 10-team meet in Clinton.
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