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July 15 - Pulled Pork, Baked Beans, Corn, Apricots, Bun

July 16 - Meatloaf, Potato Salad, Carrots, Hot Fruit Crisp Bread

July 17 - Chicken Broccoli  Rice Bake, Hot Beets, Herbed Peas, Dreamsicle Salad, Bread or Roll

July 18 - Chef Salad, Ham, Turkey, Egg, Cheese, Veggies, Banana Split Fluff, Bread or Roll    

July 19 - Chicken and Noodles, Mashed Potatoes Green Beans, Tomato Salad, Bread or Roll

July 22 - Biscuits and Gravy, Paco Blend Veggies, Hot Fruit, Fruit Juice

July 23 - Fried Chicken, Twice Baked Mashed Potatoes, Lima Beans, Cucumber Salad, Bread or Roll

July 24 - Hamburger, Hash Brown, Casserole, Corn and Black  Beans, Pina Colada Cake, Bun

July 25 - Sub Sandwich Turkey, Ham, Cheese, Veggie Pasta Salad, Minestrone Soup, Summer Fruit Salad, Mini Sub Bun

July 26 - Pasta with Meat  Sauce, Peas, California Blend, Romaine Side Salad

2014

The Buxton family rushed a large delivery of corn up to Chicago last fall after receiving a request from the movie set of the latest Transformer’s film. 

Avid outdoorsman Joe Florini of Sullivan was recognized by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources for his 35-plus years of volunteer outreach by way of gun safety classes he helped teach and organize in Moultrie and surrounding counties.

Miss Moultrie-Douglas was crowned. Those include 2014 Miss Illinois County Fair Queen Summer Robbins; Lauren Moss, People’s Choice, Tuscola; Olivia Christy, 2nd runner-up, Tuscola; Brittany Rader, 1st runner-up, Lovington; Maria Meyer, 2014 Miss Moultrie-Douglas, Tuscola; Kiela Martin, 3rd runner-up, Villa Grove; Michelle VanCleave, 4th runner-up, Tuscola; Alexandra Minott, Miss Congeniality, Newman; outgoing 2013 Miss Moultrie-Douglas Christine Fortney. Read More

2014

Jacob Robert Adams of Sullivan received a $1,000 scholarship from the CHS Foundation, the major giving entity of CHS Inc., a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States.

The Mo-Co Rush 12U competed in the Santa Claus Classic in Santa Claus, Ind. and went 5-0 to win the championship. The 12U Rush currently stood at 46-20 on the season. Players included Lindsey Mast, Destiny Williams, Allie Dunn, Liberty Dunaway, Jo Barbee, Addi Tinkle, and Delaney Melton. Middle row: coach Samantha Vogel, Isabel Shafer, KayLee Hohlbauch, Shelby Frederick, Madison Vogel, Molly Day, coach Scott Shafer, Jim Dunn, coach Kevin Hohlbauch, and coach Wes Frederick. Read More

Jonathan Creek Gold

•June 26, 2024•

by Janet Roney

In my last visit with you, I finally told you the location of the ancient sunken road at Nelson Ford on the Kaskaskia River. I also said that mastodons, mammoths, and bison may have made it. It is so worn down that it would have taken ages of erosion and trampling feet to create it.   

We know that mastodons once roamed Moultrie County for they found a skeleton of one west of Lake City, according to Ernie Winnings. A mammoth tooth was found in Welsh’s Gravel Pit and bison bones were all over the prairie when pioneers first arrived.  

If ancient animals and man used this old trail leading out of the center of the Old Bend towards the river on the south, there had to be a way to get into it from the north. However, steep bluffs lined the north side of Old Bend, and I knew of no roads coming down the bluffs.   Read More