Adlai Yoder Adlai E. Yoder, 93, of rural Sullivan, died at 7:35 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017 in his residence. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. today (Wednesday, Nov. 22) in Pleasant View Church in Arcola. Burial was in Pleasant View Church Cemetery. Edwards Funeral Home in Arcola assisted with arrangements. … Read More
Don Wilson Donald Wilson of rural Sullivan passed away on the evening of Friday, November 17, 2017 while under hospice care at the Odd Fellows-Rebekah Home in Mattoon. Funeral services were at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, November 21 in McMullin-Young Funeral Home in Sullivan. Burial was in Findlay Cemetery in Findlay. … Read More
Joyce Marquis Joyce E. Marquis, 82, of Lovington, passed away at 5:50 a.m. Wednesday, November 15, 2017 in Mason Point in Sullivan. Funeral services were at 1 p.m. Saturday, November 18 in McMullin-Young Funeral Home in Lovington. Burial was in Keller Cemetery in Lovington. … Read More
Kathleen Hamblin Mary Kathleen Hamblin, 91, formerly of Sullivan, passed away Sunday November 12 at the Mother Joseph Care Center in Olympia, Washington. Services will be 1:30 p.m. Sunday in Reed Funeral Home in Sullivan with the Rev. Larry Bricker officiating. Visitation will be one hour before the service. Burial will be in Greenhill Cemetery in Sullivan. … Read More
Irene Driskell Irene J. Driskell, 99, died Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017 in Mason Point in Sullivan. Funeral services were held Nov. 13 in Mitchell-Jerdan Funeral Home in Mattoon with burial following in Dodge Grove Cemetery in Mattoon. … Read More
•November 22, 2017• By Ellen Ferrera for the News Progress “Wear a Poppy”, a poem by Betty Toops of Neoga, expressed the sentiment at the Mid Illinois Senior Center Veterans observance Nov. 15. With tables decorated in red, white and blue the Peace Meal staffers Barbara Brown and Blake Sanders from Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Services hosted a Veterans Appreciation luncheon for 60 veterans, their wives and widows. “This is our eighth Veteran Appreciation luncheon this month in Moultrie County, and we are just honored to thank our veterans with this complimentary meal,” Sanders said. … Read More
25 Years Ago This Week Marrowbone Township road commissioner Art McReynolds and co-worker Dale Fleshner designed a chair lift to allow the wheelchair bound McReynolds access to equipment so he can perform his township duties. The $9200 lift lets the road commissioner move around the township garage as well as get into vehicles. The Bethany School Board gave its approval to a proposed realignment of the junior high sport conference. Nine districts including Bethany, Blue Mound, Central A&M, Findlay, Illiopolis, Lovington, Macon, Niantic-Harristown and Tower Hill are considering formation of a larger conference. All the district’s high schools are in the … Read More
•November 22, 2017• By Jim Nowlan NP Guest Columnist What do we do in Illinois when there is basically nothing we can do about policies most of us want changed? Three such come immediately to mind: redistricting, term limits and our public pension albatross. The Illinois Supreme Court has twice rejected recent efforts by citizens to put on the ballot a proposal to take redistricting away from lawmakers and give the job to an independent commission. This, so that Democratic House speaker Mike Madigan can no longer gerrymander districts. A friend of mine toted up the votes in 2014 and … Read More