News Progress

•June 7, 2023•

Each year on June 14, Flag Day is observed. According to www.brittanica.com, The holiday commemorates the date in 1777 when the United States approved the design for its first national flag. In 1916 Pres. Woodrow Wilson proclaimed June 14 as the official date for Flag Day, and in 1949 the U.S. Congress permanently established the date as National Flag Day. Although Flag Day is not an official federal holiday, Pennsylvania celebrates the day as a state holiday. Each year the U.S. president delivers an address that proclaims the week of June 14 as National Flag Week, and all Americans are encouraged to fly U.S. flags during that week.

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From left to right: Ked Houser, Elizabeth Houser, Sheri Wahner, Sydnee French and Kyler Houser.

•June 7, 2023•
Moultrie County Probation recently received something to help them stay safer while carrying out the duties of their jobs. The Houser family fully funded the purchase of ballistic vests for the office. According to Chief Probation Officer Mark Isaacs, protective equipment is something their office has never had, and with changing times, especially in the field of law enforcement, they feel it necessary to start taking reasonable precautions. Read More

Writing to all animal owners

Dear Editor,
We want you to be happy with your pets. Please keep them at your home. It is dangerous for them to run loose. Children will be out to play now. Animals can be around looking for a friend. Cats can be kept at home, with food, and water, a litter box. It’s easy to be kept inside. Safe from harm in our streets. Dogs are safe inside or in a sheltered play yard. Animals don’t know danger. Our Animal Control will pick them up.

All have a safe summer,
Mrs. Allen

•June 7, 2023•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

Edith Graber wrote from the River Glen Retirement Center in St. Charles with a compliment coupled with a complaint about a headline.
“Not done celebrating” was the headline for a girls soccer story.
“My mother used to say, ‘Done is for eggs; the word you want is “finished,”’” Edith wrote.
I’ll have you know, Edith, that my quoting your quote within a quote required me to count quotation marks on my fingers.
“Done” has a variety of applications. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that your mother gave you this advice during the previous century, when my mom told me that if I were nauseous I made other people sick.
Language evolves, and the distinctions moms make are sometimes handed down by their moms, they’re sometimes arbitrary and they’re sometimes a bit narrow. Read More

•May 31, 2023•
The Social Security Administration recently announced the most popular baby names in Illinois for 2022. Noah and Olivia topped the list.
The top five boys’ and girls’ names for 2022 in Illinois were:

Boys: Girls:
1) Noah 1) Olivia
2) Liam 2) Sophia
3) Oliver 3) Emma
4) Mateo 4) Charlotte
5) Theodore 5) Amelia Read More