Cletus Hudson A graveside service for Cletus Hudson, 91, of Centralia, Mo. was held at 1 p.m. Saturday in Walnut Grove Cemetery in Paris, Mo. Agnew Funeral Home in Paris handled arrangements. He passed away Wednesday April 28, 205 in Boone County Hospital in Columbia, Mo. with his family by his side. … Read More
Jean Frantz Jean Ellen Frantz, 87, of Lovington passed away Saturday May 2, 2015, in Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. A private funeral service will be held for her children and grandchildren at McMullin-Young Funeral Home in Lovington. Public graveside services were held at 2:30 p.m. today (Wednesday) in Keller Cemetery in Lovington. … Read More
May 6, 2015 by Kim Riedel N•P Columnist At my annual plant exchange that took place this past weekend was a fellow garden enthusiast from Neoga who was full of gardening experience and information that was so interesting to me. I could have sat there for hours and just listened with thoughts going through my head of what I would love to accomplish in my own garden. Another fellow master gardener (from Coles) was also a participant and heard from one of her friends (an MG from Douglas) that there was a master gardener in Sullivan who dealt with raising … Read More
May 6, 2015 I have observed over the years that when one political party wants to curb these kinds of abuses by getting a handle on this out-of-control spending and trying effect legislation to help in this area, we see something happen. This political party gets severely demonized not only by the opposing political party, but by the media, Hollywood, and academia, all jumping in to call those trying to bring about positive change as heartless and haters of the poor and minorities, and on and on the heated rhetoric goes. Many people and families do need necessary help, and … Read More
Sullivan Police Department also given go-ahead to purchase new squad car May 6, 2015 by Ariana Cherry & Keith Stewart keith@newsprogress.com At the regular city council meeting last week, streets and public improvements commissioner Monty LeCrone announced that it would be his last time attending. “Thanks for all of your cooperation,” he said. “I hope we got everything in good shape in the last four years.” LeCrone did not seek re-election earlier this year. He is to be replaced by former county board member Ken Johnson who ran unopposed. LeCrone noted that one of the things he felt still need … Read More
June Bennett A funeral service honoring the life of Daisy “June” Bennett, 97, was held Sunday, May 3, at Joines Funeral Home in Newman with Pastor Ben Williamson officiating. Burial was in Fairfield Cemetery north of Newman. She passed away Thursday April 30, 2015 in Newman Rehabilitation and Health Care Center with family at her side. June Bennett was born June 12, 1917 in Brocton, a daughter of Wilbur and Nellie Burrell Howe. She married Dale Bennett March 15, 1944, and he preceded her in death. … Read More
Sullivan senior will play as Cobra beginning this fall May 6, 2015 by Keith Stewart keith@newsprogress.com Amy Stewart still recalls one of her daughter’s earliest tests on the ball diamond. Just five years old at the time, Elissa Stewart was participating in an instructional league in her hometown of Hoopeston when she was on the receiving end of the ball. “She got hit, and you could tell she was hurt, but she picked up the ball and made the out,” recalled her mother Amy. “She didn’t cry. She made the play and went on.” These days, the Sullivan shortstop is, … Read More
May 6, 2015 By Jim Nowlan Outside Columnist As the physical symbol of a state that contributed A. Lincoln, 285,000 soldiers (35,000 died) and immense provender for the triumphant Union cause, the Illinois Capitol was built to generate “shock and awe” among visitors, as state archivist David Joens puts it. And it does to this day. Started in 1867 and completed two decades later, the capitol’s dome rises 361 feet, higher than the U.S. Capitol. The inner dome soars 233 feet above the first floor. Visitors risk vertigo as they crane their necks upward toward the 9,000 pieces of stained … Read More
May 6, 2015 Families, volunteers and spectators will be cheering on men and women, boys and girls – all Special Olympics athletes – as they compete in the largest area event of the year for Special Olympics Illinois Central/Area 10. The annual Spring Games take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 9 at Warrensburg-Latham High School in Warrensburg. The public is invited to watch the competition and experience the joy of achievement by Special Olympics athletes. Central/Area 10 is composed of Christian, Logan, Mason and Moultrie counties. … Read More