•September 14, 2016• Sullivan American Legion Post 68 is hosting a free legal advice seminarWednesday, September 17 for all veterans. Land of Lincoln Legal assistance representative Leah Engle will be on hand to offer veterans free legal advice. Breakfast will be served at 8 a.m. with the meeting starting at 9 a.m. All veterans are encouraged to attend. … Read More
•September 14, 2016• Arcola Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond golf team won a triangular match against Tuscola and Charleston JV September 6. Arcola placed first shooting a 172 followed by Tuscola and Charleston tied with 180 a piece. … Read More
Senior Peace Meal For additional information or for reservations, please call 1-800-543-1770 Monday, Sept. 19 – Pork burger sandwich w/condiments, creole black-eyed beans, seasoned greens, tropical fruit, bun. Tuesday, Sept. 20 – Taco salad w/lettuce, tomatoes, beans, sour cream, taco sauce, pineapple tidbits, taco chips, cake. Wednesday, Sept. 21 – Spaghetti w/meat sauce, Italian green beans, applesauce, bread stick, oatmeal cookie w/raisins. … Read More
•September 14, 2016• Ray Duncan, Chairman of the board of First National Bank of Sullivan and chairman and CEO of Hardware State Bank of Lovington, announced last week that the two banks will merge to form a new state bank named First Community Bank of Moultrie County. Hardware State Bank has been serving the county since 1885, and the First National has been in business since 1905. Both banks provide a wide array of banking services meeting the needs of their communities. First National Bank Sullivan received a Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) rating of “Outstanding” on its March 2, 2015 … Read More
*Update: Yost has been found guilty •September 14, 2016• by Mike Brothers and Soyna Best For the News Progress The murder trial of Michael S. Yost, 43, for the cutting death of Sheri Randall in March 2015 continued Sept. 13 in the Moultrie County Courthouse with Judge Dan L. Flannell presiding. Appearing with his court appointed attorney Brad Rau, Yost sat quietly listening to testimony from Illinois State Police CSI Stephen Hulen. Hulen recounted his investigation of Randall’s Graham Street apartment crime scene. Referring to a series of crime scene photographs, Hulen told prosecutor Jeremy Richey and the court that … Read More
•September 14, 2016• By Jim Nowlan NP Guest Columnist In the wake of the recent embarrassingly political, 4-3 partisan decision by the Illinois Supreme Court Democratic majority to reject a proposed voter initiative to reduce legislative district gerrymandering, savvy political observer Rich Miller has suggested the “nuclear option” of a voter initiative that would simply abolish the Illinois House altogether! The idea is not so outlandish as one might think at first blush. First, such a voter initiative would be constitutional, that is, it would meet the state high court’s wrong-headed requirement that initiatives be both “structural and procedural.” Second, … Read More
•September 14, 2016• There will be another foodservice sanitation manager’s certification course offered 8 a.m.-5 p.m. September 19 at ILEAS Training Center, (former Champaign Co Nursing Home), 1701 E Main St. in Urbana. An exam will immediately follow. Class is also available online. New two-hour food handler class offered at svilleco.com There are charges for the courses. To register, contact Sue Summerville, 217-684-2435. … Read More
•September 14, 2016• By Trudy Lieberman Rural Health News Service Is the message that the nation is getting too fat beginning to sink in? The answer is “yes but,” says the Trust for America’s Health, a nonprofit, non-partisan group that aims to protect the health of communities and make disease prevention a national priority. And a study of healthcare quality and quantity across the nation suggests some reasons why things are not improving uniformly. Obesity is a disease, and for the last 13 years the Trust and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have monitored obesity rates in the country, focusing … Read More
•September 14, 2016• Kirk Whitaker NP Sports Reporter Friday night Shelbyville honored 2013 graduate and former quarterback Tucker Schwengel, even painting a 15-yard line for the game in his memory. Sophomore quarterback Turner Pullen put on his own impersonation of the former Shelbyville signal-caller. Pullen torched the Redskins all night long–with the climax being his 85 yard touchdown scamper in the third where he started behind a wall of Rams in the middle of the field before bouncing out to his own sideline to go untouched, out-running Sullivan’s Luke Bowman– with 168 yards passing and three scores through the air … Read More