Techniques For Keeping Your ‘Thought Life’ Healthy and Your Stress Level Low

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•August 9, 2017• Life gives people plenty of reasons to be stressed. Relationship problems, child-rearing issues, job woes and a lack of money are just some of life’s complications that can weigh people down – and cause health problems. “It’s difficult to stay healthy and energized when stress is a daily reality,” says Dr. Greg Wells (www.drgregwells.com), author of The Ripple Effect: Eat, Sleep, Move and Think Better. “Chronic stress can damage your body, threaten your mental health, put a strain on relationships, and take the joy out of life.” … Read More

Waterfowl Hunting Season Dates Announced Statewide

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•August 9, 2017• The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) today announced waterfowl season dates and bag limits for the 2017-18 seasons. The seasons include 60-day duck seasons in each of the state’s four waterfowl hunting zones, along with 107 days of Canada goose hunting opportunity in the North and Central zones (15 days in September, two days of youth hunting and 90 days of “regular” goose season), 99 days of Canada goose hunting opportunity in the South Central Zone, and 87 days of Canada goose hunting opportunity in the South Zone. Goose season lengths are shorter in the South … Read More

OV’s Paige Robinson Commits to Drury University

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•August 9, 2017• By Jason Brown NP Sports Okaw Valley standout guard Paige Robinson verbally committed to play basketball Friday for Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. Robinson will play for coach Molly Miller who enters her fourth season as Drury University’s head women’s basketball coach. The verbal decision should put aside any distractions in Robinson’s senior year. In her junior year, Robinson won the female basketball player of the year award at the 9th Annual ESPN Decatur ESPY Awards in Decatur. In 29 games, she averaged 21.6 points, 5.3 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 3.4 steals and 2.9 blocks. … Read More

Recent Obituaries: Morna Rozene

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Morna Rozene Morna “Marlene” Rozene, 84, of Effingham, formerly of Sullivan and Centralia, passed away on Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at Lakeland Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Effingham. Marlene was born October 1, 1932, in Shelby County, the daughter of Thomas and Viola (Blake) McLaughlin. She married Dean Rozene and he preceded her in death in November 1980. Through the years, she waitressed and worked at World Color Press in Effingham and was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Centralia. Visitation for family and friends will be on Monday, August 7, 2017 from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 … Read More

Sarah Bush Lincoln Receives the 2017 Women’s Choice Award® 

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•August 2, 2017• Sarah Bush Lincoln has been named one of America’s Best Hospitals for Orthopedics by the Women’s Choice Award®, America’s trusted referral source for the best in healthcare. The award signifies that Sarah Bush Lincoln is in the top 11 percent of 3,229 U.S. hospitals offering orthopedics services. SBL President & CEO Jerry Esker said, “We are honored to receive this significant designation based on data from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and patient experience. Our Orthopedic staff is excellent and has vast experience in diverse areas, and our surgical teams are superb as well.”  … Read More

Program Pilot Locations offer Workforce Training to Disadvantaged Youth

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•August 2, 2017• The Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity (DCEO) today announced the locations of the initial Apprenticeship PLUS pilots under the Governor’s Cabinet for Children and Youth. The pilots specifically target both in-school and-out-of-school youth between the ages of 16 and 24, and provide them with specific career education, a chance to earn industry-recognized credentials and do on-the-job training.  … Read More

OVHS Seniors Play for Sky Ice Elite

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•August 2, 2017• Austin Hill and Jared Bunfill, Okaw Valley seniors, have had outstanding summers playing for the Sky Ice Elite. The Sky Ice Elite 17U basketball team experienced one of the more successful seasons in the program’s short history. The team is comprised of players from Okaw Valley, Decatur, Champaign, Bloomington, Mt. Zion and Springfield.  The program, spearheaded by Eisenhower boys’ basketball coach Rodney Walker and MacArthur girls’ basketball coach Michael Williams, has provided an AAU experience for kids in grades 3-11. This year’s 11th grade team was coached by Roy Gilmore who completed his third year with Sky Ice. The … Read More

Remember When? 8-2-2017

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25 Years Ago This Week Sullivan mayor Leon Lane is one of 18 area mayors appearing as Mayor Rufus Poindexter in The Little Theatre on the Square’s production of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. University of Illinois track Olympian Scot Hollonbeck finished fifth in the 1500 meter wheelchair race in Barcelona, Spain with a time of 3:14.98. Hollonbeck is the grandson of Lefty and Wilma Hollonbeck of Sullivan and James Reedy of Bethany. Little Theatre On the Square musical director David Fehr was honored for his 12 seasons. Also a Sullivan High School teacher and show choir director, Fehr accepted a … Read More

Low Jobless Rate in Moultrie 

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•August 2, 2017• Moultrie County recorded the lowest non-seasonal unemployment rate in the area with 3.9 percent for June. Moultrie’s unemployment rate in June 2016 was 4.2 percent, which was the lowest of 11 reporting counties in central Illinois. Iriquois County was next lowest with 4.1 percent improving from 4.7 percent in 2016. Douglas County improved one tenth of a percent over the 4.5 percent rate from 2016 to 4.4 percent in 2017. Piatt County is 4.2 percent in June 2017 compared to 4.8 percent unemployment in 2016. Shelby County improved to 4.5 percent in June 2017 from 5.3 percent … Read More