Moultrie County Republicans Slate Candidates

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•May 2, 2018• The Moultrie County Republican Central Committee held its convention Wednesday April 18 at a dinner meeting at Sullivan Country Club. The purpose of the convention is to reorganize the coming two year period including electing offices and voting for a representative to the Illinois State Republican Central Committee from the 15th Congressional District. Officers elected were David McCabe, chairman; Keith Frantz, vice chairman; Roger Glazebrook, treasurer and Zach Helton, secretary. After a weighted vote of each elected Moultrie County Republican Precinct Committeeman, State Senator Chapin Rose was selected to be Moultrie County’s choice for State Republican Central … Read More

Sec. State Office Mobile Unit at Sullivan Library 

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•May 2, 2018• Secretary of State Jesse White, in cooperation with Elizabeth Titus Memorial Library in Sullivan is offering drivers a chance to renew their driver’s license or vehicle registration renewal sticker, obtain a duplicate or corrected license, or obtain an Illinois identification card. White’s mobile unit will be available at the library, located at 2 West Water in Sullivan, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. May 17. … Read More

Sullivan Girls’ Track and Field Places Second 

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•May 2, 2018• The Sullivan girls’ track and field team finished in 13th place with 12 points at the 20-team Monticello Girls’ Invite Friday and second with 60 points in a Pana triangular last Tuesday. At Monticello, Esther Miller placed second in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:04.05. Miller teamed up with Zoe Walton, Haley Rose and Laine Cameron to finish fourth in the 1,600-meter relay with a time of 4:24.26. In the Pana meet, Emily White won the high jump at 4 feet 10 inches, and Miller won the triple jump at 32 feet 8.5 inches. … Read More

Health Screenings at Senior Center

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•May 2, 2018• SBL Lincolnland Home Care and Lincolnland Hospice will conduct a free blood pressure clinic from 8:30 to 9 a.m. Thursday, May 17 in the Senior Center in Sullivan. For more information, call Lincolnland Home Care at 1-800-879-3212. SBL Lincolnland Home Care, Lincolnland Hospice and Lincolnland Home Medical will sponsor bingo from 9-10 a.m. following the blood pressure clinic. … Read More

The Great Migration brought more than 500,000 Blacks to Illinois

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•May 2, 2018• By Chuck Sweeny Of the Rockford Register Star Victory Bell can still remember the night when he boarded the Illinois Central Railroad’s City of New Orleans in Durant, Mississippi, bound for Chicago, then changing trains and ending up in Rockford. It was 1945, at the height of the Jim Crow apartheid in Dixie that purposely kept blacks poor with few rights. Bell, his mother and siblings were headed north to join his father, who had already moved north to get a factory job. “We had been sharecroppers,” the 83-year old Bell remembers working near Durant, 60 miles … Read More

Obituaries 5-2-2018: Helen Miller

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Helen Miller Helen Joan Miller, 93, of Bethany passed away at 7:52 p.m. April 27, 2018 in Decatur Memorial Hospital. Services were held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 1 in Dawson & Wikoff Funeral Home in Mt. Zion. Burial was in Mt. Zion Township Cemetery. … Read More