Mobile Sec. of State Office 

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•January 24, 2018• On Feb. 22 the Secretary of State Jesse White, in cooperation with Sullivan Library, 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 Sullivan Library, located at 2 West Water in Sullivan 10 a.m.-2 p.m. February 22. To find out what documents are considered acceptable identification, call 217-782-7044 or visit the Illinois Secretary of States website at: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/publications/pdf_publications/dsd_x173.pdf. … Read More

Perfectly Imperfect Offers Insight into Student Life

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•January 24, 2018• If Mirror Images is anything, it is a labor of love. That’s what motivates Rebecca Lawson, the advisor of the Sullivan High School prevention theater group. Perfectly Imperfect will have one public performance at 7:00 p.m. Friday, January 26 at The Little Theatre on the Square in Sullivan. “Each year students work with me to produce a show that focuses on prevention messages – messages that they hope will help their peers and messages that all hit close to home,” she noted. “The students who write the show select issues that they feel are currently important for … Read More

Obituaries 1-24-2018: Harold West 

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Harold West  Harold “Fuzzy” West, 69, of Sullivan, passed away at 7:17 p.m. Wednesday, January 17, 2018 in Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center in Coles County. Per his wishes no services will be held. McMullin-Young Funeral Home in Sullivan handled arrangements. … Read More

Remember When? 1-24-2018

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25 Years Ago This Week Paul and Bev Ozier of Lovington are getting a big pay back from daily bird feeding and watering activities during the winter. They see the birds are fed and on winter mornings the Oziers peer out their back window to watch cardinals, finches, blue jays, titmice, brown-headed cow birds, woodpeckers, winter wrens, chickadees and doves. Cindy Richardson was named assistant vice-president and Julie McClain assistant cashier, in an announcement from First National Bank board chairman Harry Wilson. Margie Brewer of Bethany was nominated as candidate for multi-township assessor of the Dora/Marrowbone Multi Township District during a … Read More

Illinois Tax Filing Season Begins 

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•January 24, 2018• The Illinois Department of Revenue (“IDOR”) will begin accepting 2017 state individual income tax returns Monday, January 29, the same date that the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) begins accepting federal individual income tax returns. IDOR is reminding taxpayers that filing tax returns electronically and requesting direct deposit into a checking or savings account is still the fastest, most secure way to receive a refund. IDOR begins this tax season with a continued focus on protecting taxpayers and state government against fraud. … Read More

Okaw Valley Boys Top Sangamon Valley

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•January 24, 2018• The Okaw Valley boys’ basketball team defeated Sangamon Valley 67-16 to advance to the semifinals game earlier this week. The Timberwolves scored 27 points in the first quarter, led by Austin Hill who had 10 and held Sangamon Valley to five points. OV outscored Sangamon Valley 15-3 to extend its lead and did not look back. … Read More

Understanding Illinois: On Writing- Make Your Point with Few Words

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•January 24, 2018• By Jim Nowlan NP Guest Columnist A reader asked, “How did you become a writer?” I don’t think of myself as a “writer,” yet I do lots of it: this column; feature and news stories for my hometown county-seat weekly I re-started 15 years ago; several books. If you will indulge me, I will use my experience to offer varied lessons learned about writing. My beginnings were inauspicious. As a freshman at the University of Illinois in 1959, I was put in a lower-level writing course (the only one I have ever taken). One of our first … Read More

No One Should Fight Alone

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•January 24, 2018• By Jason Brown for the News Progress In 2014, former Sullivan resident Megan (Buxton) Thompson was watching an NFL game with her husband in mid-October during breast cancer awareness month. Players and coaches wore pink and she kidded about checking to make sure she didn’t have a lump. She had been recently experiencing pain in her left chest so she jokingly performed a self-exam and found a lump. “Within two weeks, I was diagnosed with (Stage 3b) breast cancer,” she said. “We don’t have any family history of cancer, and I don’t have the BRCA gene. My … Read More