The Great American Trailer Park Musical is Great Fun!

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•March 7, 2018• By Ellen Ferrera for the News Progress If you would like to lick the winter doldrums and your funny bone is yearning for a good tickling, do not miss The Great American Trailer Park now playing at The Little Theatre on the Square in Sullivan. I didn’t stop laughing from curtain rise to curtain end. Hold on to your seats and enjoy the ride. This little two-act musical takes place in the trailer park of Armadillo Acres which is the trashiest of white trash trailer parks. The curtain rises, and we behold the funky cardboard trailers and … Read More

Recent Obituaries: E. Recile Maycroft

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E. Recile Maycroft E. Recile Maycroft, 100, of Sullivan passed away at 2:55 p.m. Sunday March 4, 2018 in Mason Point, Sullivan. Graveside services will be 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Arthur Cemetery with John Plummer officiating. Memorials are suggested to the Mason Point Activity Fund. Arrangements by the Reed Funeral Home, Sullivan. Online condolences may be sent to the family at reedfuneralhome.net. Recile was born April 6, 1917 in Mt. Zion the daughter of Charles E. and Luda Greenfield Epling. She had been a seamstress for Community Industries in Sullivan and a member of the Sullivan First United Methodist Church. … Read More

Recent Obituaries: Beverly M. Alwerdt

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Beverly M. Alwerdt Beverly M. Alwerdt, 84, of Arthur, passed away 10:50 a.m. Saturday March 3, 2018 in the Arthur Home. Celebration of Life services will be 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Reed Funeral Home, Sullivan with Pastor Grant Wade officiating.  Burial will be in the Greenhill Cemetery.  Visitation will be from 10:00 a.m. until service time on Wednesday.  Memorials are suggested to the Moultrie County Food Pantry or the Sullivan First Christian Church.  Online condolences may be sent to the family at reedfuneralhome.net. Mrs. Alwerdt was born May 2, 1933 in Sullivan, IL, the daughter of Samuel B. and Gladys … Read More

Moultrie County Encouraged Early Entrepreneurs

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•February 28, 2018• By Ellen Ferrera for the News Progress When the settlers began arriving to the vast prairies of central Illinois in the early 1800’s, they found a land of bountiful opportunity for their entrepreneurial spirits. By 1850 Sullivan was an incorporated village and already bustling with such tradesmen as millers, bakers, lawyers, carriage makers, blacksmiths, a dentist and Joel Earp’s saloon among others. Added to these were other businesses in Moultrie County with a coal mine in Lovington, a sorghum mill in Bruce and a bottle making plant in Sullivan. There was a very rich vein of coal … Read More

Moultrie County Spelling Bee Winner Heads to Regionals

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•February 28, 2018• The 2018 Moultrie County Spelling Bee was held February 14 in the Little Theatre on the Square. Six students from Lovington and six students from Sullivan advanced from their school district spelling bees to participate in the county. The champion is Johnathan Iacobazzi, fourth grader of Sullivan, with the winning word of Seminole. The alternate is Hannah Creek, fifth grader of Sullivan. Sullivan participants were Iacobazzi fourth, Creek fifth, Nicole Lofland sixth,  Elora Mast sixth, Chloe Smith seventh and Abby Kirkwood eighth. … Read More

Sullivan Schools Classroom Reorganization Moves Forward

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•February 28, 2018• When the Sullivan School Board met Feb 13, Supt. Ted Walk followed up on the Saturday, January 20 special board meeting and future planning session when classroom reorganizing was discussed. As part of the space relief experienced at Sullivan Elementary School with the shifting of the fifth grade students to Sullivan Middle School, Supt. Walk is proposed bringing Project HELP students to SES with the Early Childhood program. The preschool program which targets at risk students age three to five is managed by Eastern Illinois Area Special Education and currently leases space  at Sullivan Preschool. Walk told … Read More