News Progress

•June 29, 2022•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

What I know about sports you could stick in my eye and I’d still be able to see.
But I can still turn just about anything into an entertaining sports analogy with the best of them. It’s how I’ve survived weekly meetings with sports editors for more than a decade.
I received an email from D.M. Cook, a dentist who wonders whether he is being too picky. Having a dentist ask me whether he’s too picky is like asking Anthony Rizzo whether he’d like me to lob him an 80 mph “fastball” around the knees.
See what I mean? Read More

•June 22, 2022•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

Assistant Weekend Editor Susan Klovstad said she thought of me when she saw this in a recent news release:
“In the summer of 1978, two recent college graduates and their high school drama director founded the organization because they wanted to expand the scope of community theater in town by producing plays and musicals that run the gambit from important classics to completely new plays and musicals.”
“Obviously, he means ‘run the gamut,’” Susan told me.
If you’re a Netflix subscriber, you probably remember hearing of or breathlessly streaming “The Queen’s Gambit,” a series about a young female chess player who takes the boys club of players by storm in the 1950s and ’60s. Read More

Photo furnished
Boy Scout Troop 39 held a Court of Honor recently. Pictured are front row (left to right): Joshua Bailey, Idrees Al-Arab, Curtis Kite, Liam Coil, Grant Martin. Back row (left to right): Timothy Tighe, Jacob Bettinger, Jack Woolen, Beau Fleming, Ivan Moxley, Anderson Crouse.

•June 15, 2022•
On April 11, Troop 39 held their Court of Honor at the Sullivan American Legion with family in attendance. In total, the Boy Scouts earned 48 merit badges, and eleven scouts ranked up.
The ceremony began with Summer camp awards for those who attended camp last June at Rhodes-France Scout Reservation in Pana, Illinois. Scouts who earned their Summer camp badges were Charles Conlin, Gavin Finn, Joshua Bailey, Liam Coil, Grant Martin, Kylan Collins, Idrees Al-Arab, Carson Nixon, Curtis Kite, and Anderson Crouse. Read More