Sullivan EIU Grads
•June 28, 2017• The Eastern Illinois University Spring 2017 graduates from Sullivan include Brock A. Bales, Bachelor of Science; Christina L. Farley, Bachelor of Music; Amy L. Hooten, Master of Science in Education; Stephanie L. Johnson, Bachelor of Science in Education; Jennifer A. Klukis, Bachelor of Science in Education; Lucas B. Mossman, Bachelor of Science in Business; Nick K. Newberry, Bachelor of Science; Melissa B. Parrish, Bachelor of Arts; Colton B. Ray, Bachelor of Science; Azbije Sadikoska, Bachelor of Science in Business; Caitlin T. Snyder, Bachelor of Science in Education; Kirsten N. Taylor, Master of Science; Erika L. Tomczewski, Bachelor … Read More
Area Softball Players Honored
•June 28, 2017• Several players from Moultrie County earned softball all-area honors last week. Soon to be Okaw Valley senior Paige Robinson earned second team honors. The short stop had 43 hits, 29 runs and batted .531. … Read More
Sullivan Summer Park Kids Create
ALAH Softball Team Recognizes Individuals
•June 28, 2017• By Jason Brown NP Sports The Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond softball team handed out individual awards this past week. Sophomore Reagan Miller received the offensive player award, and junior Macy Hollingsworth received the defensive player award. Senior Mycaela Miller won the most valuable player award, and sophomore Marissa Herschberger won the most improved award. Mycaela Miller was a unanimous first team Little Okaw Valley All-Conference player and was chosen for the first team all-area team in the News Gazette. … Read More
Obituaries 6-28-2017: Sandra Meredith
Sandra Meredith Sandra Meredith, 74, of Ormond Beach, Fla., formerly of Sullivan, died Sunday, June 11, 2017 in Ormond Beach. … Read More
Newspaper Deadlines for Holiday
•June 28, 2017• Due to the Fourth of July falling on Tuesday the Moultrie County News Progress will observe early deadlines for the July 5th edition. Deadlines for all advertising and news items is noon on Friday, June 30, 2017. The newspaper business office will close Tuesday, July 4 to observe the holiday. Thank you and enjoy the fireworks. … Read More
Healthcom 5K Run Benefits Senior Center
Remember When? 6-28-2017
25 Years Ago This Week Two features are added to the Sullivan Fourth of July Celebration in 1992. A new carnival, Jackson’s United Shows, opens Tuesday and a pedal tractor pull is added to the weekend festivities. A $5000 gigantic fireworks display rounds out the day’s activities at Wyman Park. Long time Lovington resident, Wendell J. Dahm, is the village’s first inductee into the Lovington Hall of Fame. Lovington grocer Bob Aldridge was recognized as Citizen of the Year during presentations at intermission of the Junior Women’s Club “The Return of Almost Anything Goes”. The Little Theatre on the Square production … Read More
Understanding Illinois: My Love Affair with Librarians
•June 28, 2017• By Jim Nowlan NP Guest Columnist As a grade schooler, I was captivated by the stereopticon at the Toulon (Ill.) Public Library, and its sepia-and-cream Matthew Brady photographs of the immediate aftermath of Civil War battles, the dead strewn higgledy-piggledy across pock-marked ground. As a student in Urbana-Champaign, I spent evenings in the reading room in the Main Library at the University of Illinois, home to one of our truly great American research libraries. Sitting at a huge oak table in the cavernous room, this small-town boy had a reverence for the hushed setting and the gothic … Read More