All Star Games Highlight Local High School Talent

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•April 18, 2018• by Jason Brown NP Sports Several area girls’ basketball players participated in two different all-star games this past week, but it was Okaw Valley guard Paige Robinson who won the MVP award for both games. Three players from Sullivan and one from Okaw Valley participated in the Marshall School Foundation Game in Marshall, Ind. and two Timberwolves played in the SkyWalker All-Star Game in Decatur. In the Marshall School Foundation game Sunday, Redskins Chloe Riley and Haley Rose played for the Red Team, and Elizabeth Green played for the White Team. For OV, Robinson played for the … Read More

Dining in The Dark

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•April 18, 2018• Come explore your senses as the Strasburg Community Action Network (SCAN) hosts a new style of culinary experience where you “Dine in the Dark.” The fun and unique event will take place in the Strasburg Community Center, 105 E. Commercial St. in Strasburg at 5 p.m. Sunday, April 22. Dining in the Dark is a one of a kind culinary encounter of heightened senses. Without sight, we must reply on our other senses: taste, touch, and smell. Nothing unusual will be served. You may find everyday foods hard to identify without seeing them first. A four course … Read More

Local Swimmer Hits Her Stroke at Franklin

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•April 18, 2018• Brynna Sentel was a Blue Dolphin team leader in Sullivan inspiring many to push themselves to achieve swimming goals. Sentel has achieved a few goals of her own since leaving Sullivan for Franklin College in Indiana. The daughter of Lori Sentel of Sullivan was named NCAA Liberal Arts Championships Female Swimmer of the Year. She scored a perfect 60 points at the conference championship, the most ever by a Franklin female swimmer, won all three individual events, placing first in the 200 free, 500 free, and 100 back, achieved the NCAA National B cut in 100 back, … Read More

Three Straight Wins for ALAH Softball Team

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•April 18, 2018• By Jason Brown NP Sports The Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond softball team picked up three-straight wins this past week. The Knights knocked off Rantoul, Cerro Gordo and Neoga. Against Rantoul last Friday, ALAH’s offense exploded for nine runs in the fourth inning to take a 10-5 lead. Each team scored a run late in the game for a final of 11-6 Addi Tinkle was two for four with two RBIs, and Reagan Miller knocked in two runs. … Read More

Obituaries 4-18-2018: Martha Glascock 

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Martha Glascock  Martha L. Glascock, 75, of Wausau, Wis. died Thursday, April 12, 2018 in Aspirus Wausau Hospital. She was born June 22, 1942 in Mattoon, the daughter of the late Virgil Eugene and Hazel Ferne Cordray Nolen. She married Howard “Lynn” Glascock May 31, 1963 in Sullivan, and he preceded her in death February 1, 1990. … Read More