MEnus 10-25-2017

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Senior Peace Meal For additional information or for reservations, please call 1-800-543-1770 Monday, October 30 – Sausage in gravy, hard cooked egg, fruit juice, mini potato bakers, biscuit, warm cinnamon buttered apples Tuesday, October 31 – Cheese tortellini alfredo, kidney bean salad, peas, peanut butter cup, whole grain wheat, warm fruit cobbler Wednesday, November 1 – Cabbage rolls in sauce, corn, broccoli, raisin bran muffin, mandarin oranges Thursday, November 2 – Fried chicken, mashed potatoes w/gravy, Italian green beans, Texas toast, crabapple salad Friday, November 3 – Goulash w/beans, seasoned greens, dinner roll, fresh fruit Sullivan Pre-School Breakfast Monday, October 30 … Read More

Smyser Church Hosts Trunk or Treat Event

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•October 25, 2017• Smyser Christian Church is hosting “Trunk or Treat” 4-6 p.m. Sun. Oct. 29 on the Sullivan American Legion parking lot at 8 E Strain St. in Sullivan. Church members will be handing out candy from their decorated trunks to the “trunk or treaters.” There will be pony rides, photos, hot dogs, chips, cookies and drinks. All children and their families are invited. There is no cost to participate. For more information call 217-752-6896 or go to www.smysercc.org. … Read More

Treasurer Candidate

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•October 25, 2017• Upon learning of the retirement of current treasurer Marci Thompson, Pam Wittkowski has announced her candidacy for Moultrie County Treasurer. She has served as chief deputy in the county clerk’s office for the past 12 years. Wittkowski is seeking the office as a Democrat. Her primary duties include payroll, managing the county’s budget process, back tax redemption process and maintaining the county’s self-insured health plan. As project manager of the new accounts payable, banking, general ledger, payroll and budget financial software shared with the treasurer’s office, Wittkowski has worked with the software vendors to set up and … Read More

Outstanding Chapter Award for the SHS NEHS

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•October 25, 2017• The Sullivan High School National English Honor Society received the Outstanding Chapter Award for 2016-2017 which encompasses everything the group did during the past school year. The award was based on activities submitted to the NEHS Advisory Council.  Sullivan High School’s NEHS Chapter, called the Best-Shirey-Little Chapter, was established in April 2013. There are currently 63 National Honor Society members including sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Requirements for acceptance are 3.0 or higher overall GPA and 3.0 or higher English GPA. The SHS chapter advisor is English teacher Cami Badman with additional faculty council members including SHS English … Read More

Fall Market Features Variety of One-of-A-Kind Finds

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•October 25, 2017• Sewing has been part of Anieta Trame’s life for as long as she can remember, but she had given it up for years. “I was a home economics teacher at Mattoon Middle School, and when I finished that gig, I thought I would never sew again because I taught it all day long for 19 years. I sold my sewing machine and got rid of everything, and then I had granddaughters,” she said. Trame purchased a new sewing machine and started teaching her oldest granddaughter Ellie to sew the same way her mother taught her to sew … Read More

Obituaries 10-25-2017: George Brazelton

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George Brazelton George W. Brazelton, 83, of rural Neoga passed away at 7:49 p.m., Sunday, October 15, 2017 in Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. Graveside services were held at 11 a.m. Thursday October 19 in Locust Grove Cemetery of Philo, Illinois with Pastor Darin Hansen of Effingham officiating. Military services were conducted by American Legion Post #71 Honor Guard of Urbana. Swengel-O’Dell Funeral Home of Neoga was in charge of arrangements.    … Read More

Lake Shelbyville Eco-Meet

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•October 25, 2017• The 41st Annual Lake Shelbyville Eco-Meet, coordinated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was held at Camp Camfield Ecological Study Area October 12. The Eco-Meet is an environmental competition for school students that are in junior high and high school. Junior varsity teams are comprised of four students from grades seven and eight. Varsity teams are made up of four high school students from grades nine through 12. A total of 140 students from 35 schools competed in this year’s event. … Read More

Sullivan Volleyball Falls to Wooden Shoes

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•October 25, 2017• The Sullivan volleyball team dropped its last three matches, including a first round loss to Teutopolis in the Class 2A Shelbyville Regional Monday night. The regional loss against the Wooden Shoes (25-10, 25-13) ended the Redskins’ season. Madi Wall and Maddie Dickens combined 17 for passes, and the team recorded three kills. … Read More