News Progress

•September 27, 2017•

By Ellen Ferrera
for the News Progress

Even though Sullivan lost its homecoming game, at some point in the evening fans stood up and sang “Hail Red and Black”, that familiar school song known to all who attended SHS since 1954.

Back in 1954 all SHS English students had an opportunity to submit an entry for a school song. The student council members selected the winner and two honorable mentions. The winner was Joe Pound ( a student council member) then a junior. Honorable mention went to Emma Lee Anderson and Sally Tabor. Pound recently recalled, “ They were sore losers, and one of them didn’t speak to me for three months!” Read More

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Moultrie Counseling Center staff: front row left to right Penny Arthur, Pam Lawyer, Audrey Mosier, Tabitha Sill, Hollie Atchison, Katrin Lynn; back row left to right: Dave Cole, Marie Luedke, Valerie Brumfield, Aimee Crask, Jeremy Nolen, Angie Schmohe

•September 27, 2017•

CARF International announced that Moultrie County Counseling Center has been accredited for a period of three years for its Outpatient Treatment: Mental Health (Adults) and Outpatient: Mental Health (Children and Adolescents) programs. The latest accreditation is the seventh consecutive Three-Year Accreditation that the international accrediting body, CARF, has been given to the Moultrie County Counseling Center. This announcement follows a two day review completed recently. Read More

An act of courage

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Cylus Booker (front) and buddies Nolan Hower (l), Sawyer Booker and Marshall Robison with the poster Cylus made.

•September 27, 2017•

By Ellen Ferrera
for the News Progress

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month (CCAM) and this month nine-year-old Cylus Booker learned that he is now five years clear of the cancer that attacked him when he was four years old.  His journey has been a profile in courage, faith and love.

His family had just moved from Sullivan to Princeton, Kentucky where his father was employed by Hydro-Gear, and his mother was just starting her teaching career. Cylus began complaining of pain and became incontinent. On September 14, 2012, he was diagnosed with a severe form of leukemia.

He had no white blood cells and, therefore, no immunity, and was airlifted to a children’s hospital. His mother remembers being so frantic she couldn’t find her car in the parking lot and that their pastor Brother Dwayne was standing there, and she believes that was an omen. Read More

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Pictured is local artist Nick Beery.

•September 20, 2017•

Sullivan artist Nick Beery will complete the third of three downtown murals in Decatur this week. This mural for the Decatur Mural Project in 2017 will be at the 200 block of W. Main St. in Decatur (east wall facing parking lot).

Beery is a freelance artist and owner/founder/creative director of Beery Method. The design for the mural is made up of a series of light, medium, and dark shapes and based on a mathematical expression/pattern structure known as the golden spiral. The golden spiral is found in nature everywhere from nautilus shells and leaves to the arms of galaxies. Read More