News Progress

•March 30, 2016• The Reading Redbirds Book Club meets 3:45-4:45 p.m. Monday April 4 and 18 The club is for fourth-eighth graders and is a very busy group that likes to volunteer for jobs at the library too. Bring a book to discuss at our next meeting. Wee Readers Story Time for preschool children starting at 2 years of age meets each Thursday from 10-10:30 a.m. Schedule is April 7-“Signs of Spring”, April 14-“What Makes a Rainbow”, April 21-“Earth Day/Worms”, and April 28-“Butterflies”. Adults are welcome to stop by the Lovington Public Library and relax for an hour each Friday … Read More

•March 30, 2016• Teachers, administrators and interested students are invited to attend the Eastern Illinois Writing Project/Teaching with Primary Sources at EIU Fall Institute Day Friday, October 14 on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. The Eastern Illinois Writing Project and Teaching with Primary Sources Project will present the annual Institute Day, titled “Beyond Pro and Con: Motivating Productive Arguments” from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Doudna Fine Arts Center. This year’s Institute Day will focus on teaching argument reading and writing across disciplines and the English Language Arts Common Core Standards. The Eastern Illinois University … Read More

Compiled by Bekki Ferguson-Stevens 25 Years Ago This Week Four Moultrie County women represented the Moultrie County Homemakers Extension Assn. at the annual meeting of the Illinois Homemakers Extension Federation held recently in Champaign. Ruby Christy and Nancy Kuhns, both of Sullivan, served as voting delegates. Other delegates included Martha Shroyer of Lovington and Rosemary Wood of Sullivan. A watercolor by Nancy Burcham of Sullivan was a part of the cultural arts display at the conference. More than 3,000 eggs were found in less than four minutes by the children who participated in the 30th annual Kiwanis Easter Egg Hunt in … Read More

•March 30, 2016• Faith Family Fellowship in Lovington will host evangelist Don Allen for a weekend of healing meetings Friday-Sunday, April 1-3 at 6:30 p.m. nightly and 10 a.m. Sunday. … Read More

•March 30, 2016• By Tyler Harvey Douglas-Moultrie Farm Bureau Manager With spring right around the corner, it has been a busy time for both the Moultrie and Douglas County Farm Bureaus. The Moultrie County Farm Bureau attended their District 11 meeting Thursday, March 3 in Decatur. For this district meeting, we were able to tour the Caterpillar plant in Decatur. The tour was well attended by all the counties that comprise District 11 which include Moultrie, Macon, Piatt, Dewitt, Christian, and Shelby counties. The Moultrie County Farm Bureau Ag in the Classroom recently visited the fifth graders at Sullivan Elementary School … Read More