In Step with Local Trend, Sullivan Golf Sees Increase in Participants 

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August 20, 2014 Group of 24 out for fall season by Keith Stewart keith@newsprogress.com Just as other local teams have seen, Sullivan golf looks to benefit from an increase in players this and in following seasons. The program improves from last year’s 19 to this year’s 24, something head coach Ben Richter actually attributes, in part, to Okaw Valley head coach Andy Wagner. “We had decent numbers play over the summer and with Andy being out here was a godsend,” said Richter. “He was having clinics and was able to give them more technical practice on a Monday, and then … Read More

Knights Cross Country Could See Team Scores

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August 20, 2014 With four boys so far, ALAH still searching for extra member by Keith Stewart keith@newsprogress.com In his 14th year, head coach Ryan Whelan has, so far, seven athletes out for the fall cross country season, which is tied for the most participants he’s had in the program. What’s more, Whelan is still hopeful in preseason that his team will pick up another male runner, which would allow a boys’ team to score in a meet, which has only happened one other time during Whelan’s tenure. “I’m trying to get the boys to talk one more into coming … Read More

Caviar with an Oink

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August 20, 2014 by William C Bailey Professor, School of Agriculture, Western Illinois University Let’s be honest, while an excellent university, not many world records are made at Western Illinois University. But that changed recently when a member of the School of Agriculture’s faculty and Good Hope, Illinois resident Associate Professor Mark Hoge, sold a pig (Yorkshire boar to be exact) for a staggering $270,000 – a world record price, according to the National Swine Registry. Assuming the pig weighed 280 pounds when sold, that pencils out to be about $60 an ounce, very comparable to the price of some caviar.  … Read More

Obituaries 8-20-2014: June Queen

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 June Queen  A funeral service for Katherine “June” Queen, 91, of Washington, Ill. was held at 11:30 a.m. Saturday in Deiters Funeral Home and Crematory in Washington with Pastor Roberta Shultz officiating. Interment was in Hillcrest Memory Gardens in Morton. She died at 9:58 a.m. Saturday Aug. 9, 2014 in Rosewood Care Center in East Peoria.  … Read More

Obituaries 8-20-2014: Jean Lorenson

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 Jean Lorenson  Mass of Christian Burial for D. Jean Lorenson, 89, of Sullivan was celebrated at 10 a.m. today (Wednesday) in St. Columcille Catholic Church in Sullivan. Burial was in Greenhill Cemetery in Sullivan. She passed away at 6 a.m. Saturday Aug. 16, 2014 in Sullivan Rehabilitation & Health Care in Sullivan.  … Read More

Obituaries 8-20-2014: Norma Harris

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Norma Harris  Mass of Christian Burial for Norma L. Harris, 76, of Tuscola was held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Forty Martyrs Catholic Church in Tuscola with Father Delix Michel as celebrant. Burial was in Tuscola Township Cemetery in Tuscola. Hilligoss Shrader Funeral Home in Tuscola handled arrangements. She passed away suddenly at 12:47 p.m. Thursday, August 14, 2014 in Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. Norma was born February 22, 1938 in Champaign, the daughter of Ivan and Emma Pankau Black. She married Joe H. Harris August 17, 1957 in Corinth, Miss., and he survives.  … Read More

Obituaries 8-20-2014: Forest Clark

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Services for Forest Wayne Clark, 98, of Decatur were held at 10 a.m. Saturday in Moundford Free Methodist Church. Burial was in Graceland-Fairlawn Cemetery in Decatur. Brintlinger & Earl Funeral Home in Decatur handled arrangements. He died Wednesday August 13, 2014 in Decatur Memorial Hospital. … Read More

Labor Picnic to Honor Union Members

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August 20, 2014 Current and former union members and their families in the area covered by the Mideastern Illinois Labor Council are invited to attend the 37th annual Labor Picnic from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday Aug. 23 at Fox Ridge State Park seven miles south of Charleston on Illinois Route 130. … Read More

Soil Moisture Levels Increased in Southern Illinois with Weekend Rains

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August 20, 2014 Soil moisture levels in southern Illinois increased over the weekend as the region saw more than three inches of rain in some locations, according to Jennie Atkins, Water and Atmospheric Resources Monitoring (WARM) Program Manager at the Illinois State Water Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois. … Read More