Remember When? 8-1-2018
25 Years Ago This Week Illinois Army National Guardsmen assigned to the Sullivan Battalion headed out to battle the flood on the Mississippi River. Approximately 50 guardsmen assigned to Sullivan have been activated to go south while putting their lives on hold. Area communities are pitching in for flood relief. Volunteers from Bethany are collecting donations to be delivered to the Quincy area. Lovington residents are collecting paper products, hygiene items and non-perishable food while members of the Sullivan American Legion are collecting canned goods. The Moultrie-Douglas Fair was the scene of the 4-H food and clothing shows. Illinois State … Read More
Rte. 133 Bridge East of Lovington Closes Aug. 6
•August 1, 2018• The Illinois Department of Transportation announces that bridge work will begin the week of August 6th, on Illinois 133, 2.5 miles east of Lovington, IL. The existing bridge carrying IL 133 over Jonathon Branch is being removed, and it will be replaced with a box culvert. To complete the work, Illinois 133 will be closed during the project. A marked detour will be in place to guide traffic around the road closure. The road will be closed beginning Monday August 13, 2018. The road is expected to be open to traffic by October 12, 2018, weather permitting. … Read More
The Dine With a Doc® in Sullivan is August 7
•August 1, 2018• Senior Education Ministries, Inc. in partnership with the Sullivan community has scheduled Dine with a Doc ® -Sullivan on the First Tuesday of every month from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Max J. Knight Community Building Banquet Hall at Mason Point. Dine with a Doc® is a free educational program that welcomes the local senior public to getting to hear an educational topic while enjoying a complimentary lunch. This program is a community effort of a doctor, a lunch sponsor, the senior citizens, local churches and area businesses coming together for the good of all to serve … Read More
Relay for Life Brings Comfort
•August 1, 2018• For more than two decades Moultrie County Relay for Life has helped comfort those fighting cancer. On Friday, August 10 survivors and supporters will gather at Sullivan High School from 5-10 p.m. Moultrie County Relay coordinator Adam McReynolds noted that 14 teams have already signed up and begun their fund-raising efforts. “Right now Moultrie County Pest Control team is leading with $2600 raised,” McReynolds said, noting this year’s goal is $50,000. He explained that funds raised not only go toward research such as one project underway at the University of Illinois but goes to help those dealing … Read More
SHS Hosts Player/Parents
•August 1, 2018• Sullivan High School is scheduled to host a mandatory player and parent meeting for football, golf, cheer, cross country, volleyball and swimming members at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 6 in the high school gym. … Read More
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A New Type of Urgent Care for A New Generation
•August 1, 2018• Representing a quarter of the U.S. population, there are more than 83 million Millennials (those born between 1982 and 2000) in the U.S., surpassing the number of Baby Boomers alive today by nearly eight million people. They’ve grown up in a digital age and want different things when it comes to accessing health care. A PNC Healthcare study last year found that Millennials are twice as likely as Baby Boomers to prefer retail clinics and acute care facilities for speed and efficient healthcare delivery. More than a quarter of Millennials say that they do not have a … Read More
Storied HS Football Rivalry Continues This Year
•August 1, 2018• By David Porter Of the Arcola Record-Herald and the Tuscola Review At the end of 2016-17 school year, there were only four schools in Illinois that had won more than 700 football games in their team’s history. And two of them are small-school rivals just 8 miles apart. Tuscola, population 4,391, and Arcola, population 2,864, have been battling it out on the gridiron since the 1890s. At times, including present day, their conferences have kept them apart, but the “Cola Wars” are set to resume Aug. 31, 2018, during the Illinois’ Bicentennial. They narrowly missed facing off … Read More
Habitat ReStore Gets a Restart in Sullivan
•August 1, 2018• By Mike Brothers Tara Reed has a vision and since taking over as manager of the Moultrie County Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Sullivan, it’s a vision teamed with elbow grease. “I love cleaning and organizing,” Reed said, noting her goal is to give ReStore customers a warm, friendly, local department store experience. Since May, Reed and the band of devoted Habitat for Humanity volunteers have been sorting through rooms filled with donated inventory. Grouping items by kind, cleaning and keeping the best items, the group is reorganizing the store into easy to shop departments. “We want … Read More