•July 15, 2015• Two SOV football camps will begin Monday, July 20. A camp open to high schoolers will run from 7-9:15 a.m., followed by a youth camp for 5-8 grades from 10-11:30 a.m. Monday-Thursday. The camps will be held at the high school practice field. Camp applications are still being accepted and may be found at the high school office. For more information, call the high school at 728-8311. … Read More
Edna Cazier Funeral services for Edna Mildred Cazier of Quincy, formerly of Windsor, were held at 10 a.m. Friday in Lovins-Lockart Funeral Home in Windsor. Burial was in Windsor Cemetery. She passed away Tuesday July 7, 2015 in Quincy. Edna was born August 2, 1919 in Windsor, the daughter of Roy and Estella Elder Spencer. … Read More
•July 15, 2015• Illinois Department of Insurance (DOI) Director Anne Melissa Dowling, today announced the Illinois Health Insurance Marketplace (IHIM), also known as Get Covered Illinois (GCI), will be administered by the department beginning August 1. “The Department of Insurance welcomes the Illinois Health Insurance Marketplace as its new home. This move will streamline program processes, improve efficiency, and align services leading to increased access to health coverage for Illinoisans,” said Director Dowling. “Consolidating Marketplace activities under a Division at the Department will promote a potential path to long term operational sustainability for Illinois to continue as a Partnership Marketplace.” … Read More
•July 15, 2015• The Lake Land College Board of Trustees last night placed the proposed fiscal year 2016 budget on file for public inspection until a special board meeting on August 18. The tentative budget is available for inspection by the public in the Luther Student Center’s administrative wing on campus, 5001 Lake Land Blvd., Mattoon, and at the second story conference room at the Kluthe Center for Higher Education and Technology, 1204 Network Center Blvd., Effingham during normal working summer hours, Monday through Thursday 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. According to Lake Land College President Josh Bullock, the proposed … Read More
•July 15, 2015• By Trudy Lieberman Rural Health News Service There’s no getting around it. Americans are using more medications and spending more for them. The latest evidence just came from Express Scripts, the pharmacy benefit manager, which acts as a middleman between drug makers and employers. The number of Americans—almost 600,000—with yearly medication costs of more than $50,000 rose 63 percent from 2013 to 2014. The group of patients with costs over $100,000 nearly tripled. By any measure these are huge increases that don’t signal much hope that the U.S. can bring down its medical spending, which is now … Read More
Paul Rauch A funeral service for Herman Paul Rauch, 94, of Spokane, Wash. was held June 23 with interment in Greenwood Memorial Terrace. He died June 22, 2015 in Hospice House of Spokane surrounded by family. … Read More
•July 15, 2015• By Dan Hagen NP Theatre Critic The Little Theatre’s family-focused season, which began with “Mary Poppins,” continues today with “The Wizard of Oz.” And yes, it’s THAT “Wizard of Oz,” the 1939 MGM film version with which the world is most familiar, slightly expanded and extended with a song by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Fantasy is a much simpler sell on film, of course, and there’s a moment or two when the capable performers could use a little extra special effects help. Mollyanne Nunn, for example, tries valiantly to be ethereal as Glinda the Good … Read More
Plan is to source parts, oil locally •July 15, 2015• by Joash Tiarks Reporting in Sullivan Through life it is necessary to deal with many different routines; a morning routine, a health routine, a school routine, a routine of yearly events. But for the routine of regular vehicle service there is a new option in town. Jeff Smith, along with his six sons and one daughter, has recently leased the vacant garage on Jackson St., across from McDonald’s, to open Sullivan Quality Lube. “We’ve been open for (a few weeks) now and we are seeing about 70 people a week … Read More
Four unlocked vehicles targeted over weekend • July 15, 2015 • by Keith Stewart keith@newsprogress.com Sullivan police are asking the public to keep their car doors locked and an eye out for any suspicious activity after a string of unlocked vehicles were illegally entered over the weekend. Sullivan Police Chief John Love says that four vehicles were the subject of criminal trespass this past weekend, two of which were then taken around town before then being abandoned. One of the vehicles was found just north of Wyman Park on Worth street and another parked in the middle of a road … Read More