News Progress

25 Years Ago This Week

The Sullivan School District announced an open house and dedication ceremony for the new elementary school to be held on Sunday, Feb 25. The school district plans on moving into the new facility March 5, less than a year from the beginning of construction. The $5,650,000 total cost included furniture, equipment, landscaping, site development, fees and all construction costs. Sullivan voters approved a $4 million building referendum in March 1994 to build a new 540 student elementary school. The school district added $1,650,000 of cash reserves to build the school. The school contains 24 regular classrooms and seven specialized classrooms.
Sullivan High School art students who are individual award winners are: April Grady, Ross Haverstock, Ryan Cobb, Amber Probus, Tim Sides and Laura Morrison. Sullivan High School art students who are group drawing award winners are: Kristy Roy, Sean Jenkins, Kris Gardner, Ross Haverstock, Ryan Cobb, Steve Green, Mason Isaacs, Amber Probus, Tammy Lambdin, April Weger, Robin Gautier, Jason Fleschner, Kurtis Tull, Neal Ozier and Daniel Lusk. Read More

•January 27, 20201•
We’re never too young or too old to learn valuable lessons that keep us fit, healthy, happy, and financially sound. In a tradition which has lasted decades and adapted with the changing world environment, Lessons for Living are monthly workshops which provide easy-to-understand tips for living full, rich lives.
The free online webinars, taught by University of Illinois Extension educators, are extended at no cost to the public in collaboration with the Illinois Home and Community Education units throughout the state. One may register online at go.illinois.edu/2021HCElessons. If you will need an accommodation in order to participate, please email Karla Belzer at kbelzer@illinois.edu. Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.

The monthly webinars include: Read More

•January 27, 20201•
COUNTRY Financial Representative Elizabeth Houser of Sullivan has earned a position on the insurance groups distinguished All American team.
Houser is among a select group of top COUNTRY Financial agency managers and financial representatives who qualified for the award. COUNTRY Financial has more than 2,000 agency managers and financial representatives in 17 states. Houser is ranked 145 out of the top 200 agents as of 12/31/2020. Read More

By Capitol
News Illinois

Two more regions of the state moved to Phase 4 COVID-19 guidelines on Monday, Jan. 25, meaning five of 11 regions can now allow both indoor dining and organized sports.
Region 1 in northwest Illinois and Region 2 in north-central Illinois each moved to Phase 4, which allows for indoor dining and drinking and, after last Friday’s announcement from the Illinois Department of Public Health, competitive participation in high school athletics. Regions 3 in west-central Illinois, 5 in southern Illinois and 6 in east-central Illinois are all already in Phase 4.
All regions of the state had moved out of Tier 3 mitigations as the COVID-19 health metrics continue to show improvement statewide. Regions 7, 10 and 11 were in Tier 1 restrictions as of Monday, while Regions 4, 8 and 9 were in Tier 2.
“With all regions of Illinois now out of Tier 3, we can now see that the entire state is headed down the right path,” Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike said Friday, Jan. 22. “During the summer, we were on this same path. We know that we must continue to take precautions and be smart about how we relax some of the mitigation measures, which are in place to protect our health and safety.”
Tier 1 mitigations allow indoor dining at 25 percent capacity and bar service only if food is being served.
In order to move out of tier mitigations, regions must meet certain metrics of case positivity, have staffed intensive care unit bed availability greater than 20 percent for three consecutive days and sustained decline in hospitalized COVID-19 patients on a seven-day rolling average. Read More

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