News Progress

2016

Winning has never felt so good. “I haven’t seen the kids smile that big in a while,” said Sullivan girls basketball coach Amanda Glazebrook. The smiles came after the Lady Redskins stopped a 14-game losing streak with a 49-36 victory over Argenta-Oreana Thursday night.

The libraries in Lovington, Bethany, and Sullivan are among four area libraries that have been awarded $4,000 grants under the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). The grant, entitled “Weed and Feed: Knowledge Unlimited,” is administered by the Illinois State Library, a division of the Illinois Secretary of State’s Office, and is funded by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Cheryl Coddington, from Fast Stop, recently presented a check to Crystal Edwards, Moultrie County CEFS Coordinator. Those who used Pump 1 or Pump 2 with the Spirit Pump wrap during November and December, with one penny per gallon being raised for a local charity, enabled Fast Stop to donate $418.52 to CEFS. Looking ahead, the January/February Spirit Pump donations will go to Sullivan AMBUCS. 

July continued from  1.7.26 Edition

This past Saturday, July 19th, Bluey paid a visit to his fans at Sullivan’s Elizabeth Titus Memorial Library. In addition to hugs and playing games with Bluey, stations were set up that attendees enjoyed, such as an arts and crafts station, a coloring station, face painting, balloon games, and a playtime library checkout desk, which allowed for a popular game of pretend. 

Sullivan Preschool held an Open House on Friday, August 1st, at its facility located at 10 Hawthorne Lane in Sullivan. The public was invited to tour the school and meet the staff and Board of Directors. The children’s creative work was be displayed, and refreshments were served.

On Tuesday, July 22nd, Linda Henry from the Moultrie County Soil and Water Conservation District provided a fun and educational water conservation activity for local youth at the Lovington Library, focused on water conservation. Mrs. Henry used a terrarium-building project to demonstrate water conservation, hands-on.

Locals and non-locals alike gathered in Findlay on Friday, July 25th, and Saturday, the 26th, to celebrate the 37th annual Walleye Festival. On offer were everything from a Kid Zone, beer tent, American Legion Dinner, vendors, food trucks, firehouse obstacle course, to a pedal pull, car show, live musical performances, tractor pull, and the parade, which drew a sizable crowd for the town of approximately 700 residents. There was something for everyone, and the atmosphere was one of very good cheer, despite the record-hot, humid weather experienced in the region the past two weeks.

2016

The days of trying to decipher a police officer’s handwriting on a traffic citation are over in Moultrie County. The Moultrie County Circuit Clerk’s Office became the first office in the sixth judicial circuit to implement e-Citations.

The building and grounds committee of the Moultrie County Board met and voted to recommend the removal of a dilapidated courthouse chimney. Maintenance director Rick Matthews explained that the recent rain had indicated the unused courthouse chimney was the site of water infiltration inside the building.

2006

The Sullivan school board signed off on a confidential agreement providing for the resignation of Coach Derik Eaton. The settlement signed at Monday’s meeting did not reveal the reason for Eaton’s resignation, but merely noted that “a dispute has arisen among the parties regarding Eaton’s employment as a teacher and as a high school boys’ track coach.”

Realizing that Sullivan city residents are being hit this month with high utility bills, the city council voted to dispense with late fees for the next three months. To avoid late fees, however, customers must call in to make arrangements to pay their bills.

Thirteen Generations Plus Five Hundred
•January 7, 2026•

by Janet Roney

Generation after generation of people have found everything needed for life here in central Illinois. The first historic people were the French who  passed through Moultrie over three hundred years ago. At twenty-five years per generation, that’s at least thirteen generations ago.

My Uncle Cliff used the same Jonathan Creek fishing holes as those who built the ceremonial mound in the corner of his cow pasture. The shell casings left from our son-in-law Craig’s deer hunt mingle with arrowheads waiting to be found  along the eroded banks of the Kaskaskia. Our Uncle Vern and Aunt Ruth gathered poke shoots, sour dock greens, and sassafras roots for their spring “physic” on Grandpa Roney’s hillside just like ancient people did before them. The corn that now covers Moultrie’s prairies descends from the same type of corn raised thousands of years ago along the West Okaw in Cornbread Bottom. That’s where avid arrowhead hunter Randy found an artifact certified to be 13,000 years old. That’s five hundred generations ago!