•December 31, 2025•
1st- Closed for New Year’s Day.
5th - Needle Night from 5:00 to 7 p.m. If you would like to learn to crochet, knit, needlepoint, or even how to sew, we have people who can help teach you. If you already know how and just want to hang out, come join us
6th - Story Time from 10:00 to 10:30 a.m. We will have winter-themed stories and a craft.
9th - Kids Craft Time from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. We will be making a winter thread craft.
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•December 31, 2025•
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The ISHS’s Verna Ross Orndorff Scholarship, with a prestigious award of $1,000, has opened for Illinois High School students who write and submit the best 1,500-word essay on the subject of Abraham Lincoln or Civil War era Illinois. Essays must be submitted by January 15th, 2026, and meet the following criteria:
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•December 31, 2025•
5: Ham and beans, copper carrots, tropical fruit, and cornbread.
6: Shepherd’s pie, hot fruit crisp, 3 bean salad, and biscuit.
7: Chicken Cordon Bleu, garlic vegetables, maple-glazed Brussels sprouts, pea salad, and bread/roll.
8: Meatloaf, sour cream and chive mashed potatoes, stewed tomatoes, peaches, and bread/roll.
9: Tuna casserole, peas, cinnamon-glazed carrots, cottage cheese salad, and bread/roll.
12: Hamburger and bun, tater tots, baked beans, and mandarin oranges.
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•December 31, 2025•
The Mid-Illinois Senior Center is located at 113 E. Jefferson Street in Sullivan. The Peace Meal Senior Nutrition program lunch is served weekdays (except holidays) at 11:30 a.m. Call (217) 728-8521 for more information on the events below or the Peace Meal. New this month: The last Friday of the month at 12:30 p.m., there will be popcorn and movie. Movie titles will vary each month. Ask at the front desk for the “Movie of the month.” Doors to the center are open Monday through Friday, and it’s warm inside. There is always free hot coffee, hot chocolate, and hot tea for those cold winter days.
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Lake Land College recently recognized Emergency Medical Services (EMS) graduates at an annual pinning ceremony. During the event, several students received awards for their outstanding performance in the program. The Perseverance Award was presented to Curtis Robinson, Bethany, for overcoming obstacles to succeed in the program.
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On December 20th at the Family Life Center in Lovington, the Lovington Park Board sponsored ‘Breakfast with Santa’. Donuts were provided by Casey’s General Store, and there were pancakes, biscuits and gravy, cinnamon rolls, bacon, milk, orange juice, and coffee. This event was a gift to the Lovington community from the Park Board.
Log Jams and Sandbars
•December 24, 2025•
by Janet Roney
The old man fishing from the Kaskaskia River bridge at Vandalia said, “It’ll be smooth sailing from here to the Mississippi, boys! There’s no more logjams for the rest of the river.”
This was good news to my three older brothers (teenagers at the time) and my father in the summer of 1952. They had lost track of the number of logjams they had portaged around since leaving Findlay a few days before. Every portage meant unloading their fourteen-foot wooden outboard motor boat, Ida, dragging the boat, motor, and supplies straight up steep banks, through brush, poison ivy, and cornfields on top of the bank, and lowering it all back down to the river so they could continue to the next logjam. When they were not portaging, they were often wading in the river, dragging their boat over sandbars. Their once-in-a-lifetime adventure floating down the Kaskaskia to the Mississippi had become hard work.
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Shawnee Communications (Shawnee) and MultiCorp, Inc., announced that Shawnee, a rural provider of telephone and high-speed internet and other telecommunications services in five southern Illinois counties, acquired MultiCorp, Inc., the holding company of Moultrie Independent Telephone Company (MITC) and MITC’s affiliated companies, including One-Eleven Internet Services and Moultrie Telecommunications.
When inclement weather struck, the Sullivan School District delayed school opening by two hours. In an effort to accommodate parents with morning obligations, the district opened the Sullivan Elementary School Gym at 8:00 a.m. The Sullivan High School Gym was opened with supervision for middle and high school students who need to arrive earlier than 10:00 a.m.
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•December 17, 2025•
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has issued an updated standing order that adds Illinois public libraries to the list of locations that are permitted to keep a supply of opioid overdose reversal agents on hand, and to allow trained staff to administer them in the event of a suspected overdose on their premises. The revised standing order will make it easier for libraries to comply with new provisions of the Illinois Local Library Act, which will take effect on January 1st, 2026.
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•December 17, 2025•
Several staff members of Lake Land College’s student-run newspaper, The Navigator News, recently earned awards at the 2024-2025 Illinois Community College Journalism Awards (ICCJA).
The Navigator team was also named an honorable mention for the Mike Foster General Excellence Award, which recognizes overall excellence in paper, website, and social media quality.
“A huge congratulations to all the students who received awards during this year’s ceremony,” said Tim Stolz, Student Life Specialist. “Our students pour so much into this paper, and they learn a lot about writing, editing, web design, and layout in the process. It’s great to see their work in all these areas recognized as some of the best in the state.”
The local Lake Land College Navigator News staff includes Sullivan local, Emma Skowronski.