ALAH School District Looks To Navigate, Approves Levy

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•December 23, 2015• By Ariana Cherry For the News Progress The Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond School Board approved its 4.97% property tax levy for taxes payable in 2016 at its most recent school board meeting. The district also voted to abate the sales tax for year 2015 to pay debt service on General Obligation Bonds which is an alternate revenue source. The sales tax is the primary revenue source to pay for the junior high addition. If something happens to the sales tax, then the district would have to use property taxes,” Superintendent Kenny Schwengel said. Supt. Schwengel stated that all funds are … Read More

Shawnee Communications Buys Lovington Phone Co.

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Shawnee to Preserve Moultrie Heritage and Continue Network Improvements •December 23, 2015• Shawnee Communications (Shawnee) and Moultrie MultiCorp, Inc., today announced that Shawnee, a rural provider of telephone, high speed Internet and other telecommunications services in five southern Illinois counties, would acquire Moultrie MultiCorp, Inc., the holding company of Moultrie Independent Telephone Company (MITC) and MITC’s affiliated companies, including One-Eleven Internet Services and Moultrie Telecommunications. Shawnee announced that the Lovington based companies would continue to operate with no changes and that Shawnee would continue investing in technology infrastructure to provide customers with the latest in telecommunications and high speed Internet … Read More

Obituaries 12-23-2015: Bob Phillips

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Bob Phillips Robert “Bob” Phillips, 47, of Arthur passed away at 4:30 a.m. Monday, December 21, 2015 in St. John’s Hospital in Springfield. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, December 26, 2015 in the McMullin-Young Funeral Home in Sullivan. Visitation will be held from 9-11 a.m. Saturday in the funeral home. Burial will be in Penn Township Cemetery in Moweaqua. … Read More

Family Game Night at Lovington Library

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•December 23, 2015• Lovington Public Library will hold a family game night competition 5:30-7:30 p.m. Monday Jan. 4. Those attending may bring their own board and card games or borrow the library’s games. Reading Redbirds Youth Book Club for fourth-eighth graders meets 3:30-4:30 p.m. on the first and third Tuesday of each month. The children in this club enjoy planning and assisting with library events and discussing their favorite books. Community service hours and volunteer experience that will look good on a resume may be earned by teens volunteering for tasks such as cleaning, shelving books, helping to create new … Read More

Correction

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•December 23, 2015• In the December 2 edition of the News Progress the story on page eight concerning the retirement of Prairie Winds director Virginia Darnell unintentionally omitted longtime member Vic Arendell. We regret the error. … Read More

Sullivan Redskins Take Arcola Purple Riders

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•December 23, 2015• The Sullivan Redskins took a 61-54 home court win over the Arcola Purple Riders Tuesday,  December 15. Head coach Chester Reeder noted the 5-2 Sullivan team had 27 rebounds with Ty Molzen pulling down 14 to help the effort. The Redskins were 9-5 in the first quarter over the Purple Riders, who came back strong in the second quarter with a 16-9 run. Sullivan was down 21-18 at halftime They scored 18 points in the third quarter to Arcola’s nine. Both teams were scoring by the fourth with a 25-24 quarter for the Redskins to end the … Read More

Knights Handle Decatur Christian Team

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•December 23, 2015• Decatur Christian traveled to Arthur Tuesday where the Knights won 49-8. The Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond team hit 23 of 40 from the field for  57 percent shooting and shot 75 percent from the free throw line hitting three of four as a team. The Warriors shot just 15 percent from the field hitting three of 19 and 14 percent from the free stripe making one of seven. Turnovers were a problem for the Decatur Christian team as they had 21 to the Redskins 10.  Sullivan capitalized on turnover points with 20. The Knights started strong with an 18-1 first … Read More

PARCC Test Results Revealed

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College & Career Are Goals By Mike Brothers Sullivan District 300 school board members learned high school and elementary school student assessment testing results were good, but some work needs to been done in the middle school. School psychologist Jessica L. Reeder presented Partnership for Assessment of Readiness of College and Careers (PARCC) testing results December 14. Reeder noted this was the first year for PARCC testing for grades 3-8 in English, language arts and mathematics. Juniors at Sullivan High School were tested in English III and Algebra II. Reeder explained the scoring gap between high school and elementary may … Read More

Obituaries 12-23-2015: David Baker

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David Baker David Ronald Baker, 76, of Sullivan, died at 11:30 p.m. Friday December 18, 2015 in Mason Point in Sullivan. Private family burial was held Tuesday in Liberty Cemetery in Sullivan. Arrangements were by Reed Funeral Home, Sullivan. David was born February 5, 1939 in London, England, a son of Ronald and Irene Evans Baker. … Read More