Cole-Moultrie e911 System Tests Land Line Services

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•April 19, 2017• Coles-Moultrie e911 is calling land lines to verify data the week of April 17, Arlene Aschermann, announced at the April 13 county board meeting. The Moultrie Co Public Safety chair, explained telephone customers randomly called in Moultrie County will be given a code to dial back. This will the verify the individual’s information in the 911 database. In Moultrie County 776 land lines are unpublished and 1936 published. Only the published numbers will receive calls. People with unpublished land line numbers should call 217/345-2939 to be included in 911 data base. … Read More

ALAH Boys’ Track Gets Three Top Spots

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•April 19, 2017• The Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond boys’ track and field team competed in the Fisher Invitational Thursday, April 13. The following Knights placed in the top three spots in their final heats. Jordan Miller ran the 800-meter run in 2:13.39 for first place, and Mitchell Bernius triple jumped 36 feet and 1 inch for second place. … Read More

Eagle Creek Resort Gets IDNR’s Attention

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•April 19, 2017• By Mike Brothers Hope is not lost for Eagle Creek Resort. Moultrie County Board chairman Dave McCabe told the board it could be until September before prospective developers will get a chance to submit proposals on the Lake Shelbyville resort. Shuttered since 2009, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources is preparing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for Eagle Creek Resort which, according to McCabe, should allow developers enough flexibility to submit plans to rebuild the resort which may not require total demolition. … Read More

Understanding Illinois: Illinois Population—So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Ya’

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•April 19, 2017• By Jim Nowlan NP Guest Columnist The modern American is restless. He moves around, toward good things like jobs, opportunity, warmth, family members, safety. It has been thus since our founding. What, if anything, can or should be done about the movement of people out of Illinois? Illinois has been losing white people on a net basis since the 1970s, maybe earlier, since the home air conditioner made the South livable. This loss has been papered over by the “natural increase” (births over deaths) within our state. This gave us small population increases, until recently. According to … Read More

OV Baseball Dominates Opponents of the Week

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•April 19, 2017• The Okaw Valley baseball team dominated in four wins by defeating each opponent by 10 runs or more this week. The Timberwolves defeated Arcola, Shelbyville, Cerro Gordo and Neoga. Arcola Monday After taking a 3-point lead in the third inning, the Timberwolves scored three runs in the fourth, sixth and seventh innings for a 12-2 win. OV totaled 12 hits and played errorless in the field. In the first inning, OV scored when Connor Cloyd singled with two outs. In the seventh, singles by Garrett Fritz and Tanner Coleman and an error scored the runs. Taylor Coleman … Read More

Obituaries 4-19-2017: Joann Grove

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Joann Grove Dona Joann Grove, 84, of Bethany, died at 1:50 a.m. Saturday, April 15, 2017 in Decatur Memorial Hospital. Memorial services will be held at a later date. Reed Funeral Home in Sullivan is in charge of arrangements. Dona Joann Grove was born January 2, 1933 in Rinard, Illinois to James Lowell and Edna Marie Gibbs. She graduated from high school and moved to Decatur to work at Kemper Insurance where she met and married Jimmie Dale Grove. Together they raised five children in Bethany. … Read More

Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra presents “Symphonic Revolutionaries”

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•April 19, 2017• The Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra (MDSO) will conclude its 2016-17 performance season with a masterworks concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 22,  in Kirkland Fine Arts Center. Entitled “Symphonic Revolutionaries,” the concert will feature performances of Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 3,” Rautavaara’s “Cantus Arcticus” and Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 3.” … Read More

Area Students on U of I Dean’s List

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•April 19, 2017• The following area students made the fall dean’s list at University of Illinois Champaign. Bethany – Emily Scott, senior, engineering; Lovington – Jamie O. Hendrickson, freshman, liberal arts; Thomas James Hendrickson, senior, liberal arts and science; Allison Constance Irwin, freshman, education. … Read More

Watercolor Workshop at St. Columcille For Sullivan Art Club

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•April 19, 2017• Watercolor artist Frank Ventura will conduct Sullivan Art Club’s second workshop of the 2017 season Saturday, April 22. The workshop will be held at St. Columcille Church hall located on the east end of the church at the corners of W. Jackson and McClellan streets. There is a dedicated entrance to the hall adjacent to the parking lot. Participants will be led in creating an abstract composition using watercolors and ink. In addition to regular watercolor supplies, attendees should bring 140# cold pressed watercolor paper cut to 3½ x 8½ and another one cut to 4½ x … Read More

Lovington Moves Fireworks to the Month of June

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•April 19, 2017• Lovington community fireworks display will move to the Community Club’s annual fish fry June 16 following village board action March 13. Jake Kamm announced the proposed fireworks displays included in the June 16 program, noting that an American flag display was added to 2017. Trustee April Daily explained members of the Community Club hoped moving the fireworks would bring more people to the fish fry. … Read More