Understanding Illinois: The Unsung Volunteers who Shaped Illinois
•February 28, 2018• By Jim Nowlan NP Guest Columnist On this 200th anniversary year of statehood for Illinois, I will, now and then, profile Illinoisans who played key roles in shaping our state, but whom most readers probably don’t know. Edward Coles was a Virginia patrician with a strong sense of noblesse oblige. He served in the White House for six years as James Madison’s personal secretary and later led the first mission on a US warship into the Baltic Sea, where he successfully smoothed over a diplomatic problem with the Czar. Yet Coles was drawn to Illinois. Before reaching our state in … Read More
SBA Names Sullivan Native to Veterans Business Affairs Advisory Committee
•February 28, 2018• SBA Administrator Linda McMahon has named Charles Lynn Lowder, a native of Sullivan and president of Naperville-based Lowder Counsulting, to a three-year term on the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Advisory Committee on Veterans Business Affairs. … Read More
IGA Round Up Begins March 4
•February 28, 2018• March 4–10 is Sullivan IGA Roundup time. IGA customers will be given the opportunity to round up to the nearest dollar from their purchase. All proceeds will go to the Moultrie County Food Bank. At the end of Roundup week on March 10 Agri-Fab of Sullivan is sponsoring the IGA Parking Lot Food Drive. Agri-Fab will hand out bags to fill for the Moultrie County Food Bank at the IGA from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, March 10. … Read More
Lady Timberwolves Trio of Seniors
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Blue Dolphins Celebrate a Decade of Community Giving
•February 28, 2018• Ten years (2008) ago the Blue Dolphins started helping soldiers by collecting items for Until They All Come Home. The local group in Sullivan sent care packages to the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. When those needs were filled, the Dolphins looked for another outlet to help and have been collecting items annually for the Danville VA Hospital in conjunction with the Sullivan American Legion. … Read More
Recent Obituaries: Maudie Ruth Trussell
Maudie Ruth Trussell Maudie Ruth Trussell, 84, of Sullivan passed away 10:10 p.m. Thursday, February 22, 2018 Mason Point, Sullivan. Funeral services will be held 7:00 p.m. Sunday, February 25, 2018, at McMullin-Young Funeral Home, Sullivan. Visitation will be held from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Sunday, at the funeral home in Sullivan. Memorials may be made to the donor’s choice. Maudie was born May 16, 1933, in Tracy City, TN, the daughter of Charlie Bradford and Cora Haynes (KilGore) Meadows. She was a member of the New Life Church. She was a peaceful and happy person who loved her family … Read More
Scene for Moultrie Co. Lynching Set Years Before it Happened
•February 21, 2018• By Eden Martin NP Guest Columnist Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles dealing with the lynching on the Moultrie County courthouse lawn researched and written by Sullivan historian, native and retired attorney Robert Eden Martin. On November 23, 1891, in Shelby County just south of Sullivan, Ulysses Grant Atteberry and his brother Ed killed their father David Atteberry, blowing off part of his head with a shotgun. But that isn’t why five years later a lynch mob of Sullivan residents hanged Grant Atteberry from a tree in the Court House yard. I. … Read More
OV Timberwolves Trio Triumphs With Trip to State Finals
•February 21, 2018• By Jason Brown NP Sports Three years ago as sophomores, Paige Robinson, Natalie Jeffers and Hope Ruppert saw major playing time for the Okaw Valley girls’ basketball team. The Timberwolves finished that season 16-7 overall and 4-1 in the Little Okaw Valley Conference. More importantly, the seeds were sown. Last year the trio had high expectations for the team, and though the OV finished 18-9 overall and 3-1 in the LOVC, the Timberwolves were bounced out of the regional by a tough Central A&M team. This year as seniors, the trio of Robinson, Jeffers, Ruppert and the … Read More