V-ball Players Earn All-area Honors
•December 27, 2017• Three area volleyball players earned all-area honors this past week. For Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond, senior setter Madison Brown earned all-area first team honors. … Read More
OV Girls’ Basketball Team Wins Holiday Tournament
•December 27, 2017• By Jason Brown NP Sports The Okaw Valley girls’ basketball team gave the fans a great Christmas gift by winning the 17th annual Okaw Valley Holiday Tournament Friday. OV won two games, defeating Decatur LSA and Martinsville. In the championship game, OV defeated Martinsville 59-24 to finish the tournament with a 5-0 record. Paige Robinson scored a game-high 23 points, including 15 points in the first quarter. Danielle Hill and Kate Jeffers each scored eight points, and Clara Perry had seven points. … Read More
Year End Review 2017
•December 27, 2017• January 4, 2017 Sullivan City Council meetings are moving to the Elizabeth Titus Library, and new offices are replacing the city council chambers in city hall. Prairie Winds musical ensemble opened its performance season at Mason Point. Marrowbone Library in Bethany has a restored collection of high school senior class pictures from 1889 to 1993 with more current years in a scrapbook. Glenn Austin, Jim McLaughlin and Virginia Weakly rescued the collection presenting the restored collection to Marrowbone for public use. Sullivan girls’ basketball team used a 21-6 third quarter run to propel them to a 59-42 … Read More
Bicycle Gifts
Redskins Compete at St. Teresa Tourney
•December 27, 2017• The Sullivan boys’ basketball team entered the Team Soy St. Teresa Christmas Tournament this week. The Redskins lost to Decatur Lutheran and Mt. Pulaski. On day two of the tournament, Mt. Pulaski defeated Sullivan 62-30. … Read More
Moultrie Moment of the Week
Six Earn All-area Football Honors
•December 27, 2017• Six local football players earned all-area honors this past week. For Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond, senior linebacker Marcus Vanausdoll earned second team defensive honors. … Read More
The Quiet Capital: The Story of Illinois’ First State City
•December 27, 2017• By Isaac Smith Of the Southern Illinoisan On July 4, 1778 the bell rang, and the battered people of Kaskaskia gathered. They found themselves under new rule. George Rogers Clark explained that the revolutionary government was not interested in changing their faith but wanted to give them liberty. The once British-occupied territory had been liberated by Clark who was fighting for the Continental Army. About four decades later this small settlement flanked by the Mississippi River would be the home to Illinois’ first capital. There is a lot to Kaskaskia’s story — a lot that wouldn’t be … Read More
Wreaths Across America
Understanding Illinois: Cheatham’s Hill a Monument to our Enduring Union
•December 27, 2017• By Jim Nowlan NP Guest Columnist The Illinois Monument at the Kennesaw Mountain Civil War battlefield north of Atlanta is a rather nondescript vertical block of marble. The monument stands atop Cheatham’s Hill, which the soldiers of the 85th and 125th Illinois Regiments almost but never quite reached on June 26, 1864. The marker commemorates the courage and cohesiveness of the men who came within 30 feet of the almost impregnable Confederate earthen parapets above the sharp rise. Each holiday season I visit my sister’s family, who live near the park, outside Marietta, GA. And each year … Read More