No More Pining Away at OVMS

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Tree donation replaces those removed last year by Jake Dilley Reporting in Findlay Okay Valley Middle School received a donation from the Findlay Planning Committee two weeks ago in the form of 50 white pine trees. With a $250 donation to the project from the Findlay Planning Committee and trees from Roger Kirkwood, the task was underway. The original windbreak, planted in 1943, had contracted a disease last year. With the trees literally falling over, they had to be cut down. Mike Cummins, the Okay Valley Middle School principal, was then approached by Kirkwood with a proposal on the new … Read More

Lady Red Make School History with Regional Championship

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Defeat host Shelbyville 5-3 Saturday by Keith Stewart keith@newsprogress.com According to Sullivan head coach Ben Richter, Saturday’s regional championship victory over Shelbyville marked the first ever in school history. But that’s just icing on an already overtopped cake. “Let’s just say many of the girls were in tears or almost in tears,” said senior pitcher Elizabeth Inman. “Our team has never been closer than this year, and it feels so great to accomplish something so big with all of these wonderful ladies.” Sullivan’s biggest inning came in the second starting with Brittin Boyer’s at-bat where she hit the game’s only … Read More

Goodman Finishes Career Best at State

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After two years of 8th, senior earns 5th by Keith Stewart keith@newsprogress.com “That number eight, it gets me.” What Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond senior Karly Goodman is referring to is not only her last two years of finishing eighth at state in the shot put, but even the fact that after Thursday’s preliminaries, the senior was seeded none other than eighth coming into Saturday’s finals. But Goodman wouldn’t have it a third year. Instead, the senior hurled a throw of 39 feet 3/4 inches for a fifth place finish, just 1 1/2 inches out from fourth. … Read More

Obituaries 5/-28-2014: William Neeley

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William Neeley William Lee Neeley Sr., 81, of Effingham, formerly of Decatur, died Thursday may 22, 2014 in his daughter’s home. A service celebrating his life will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday in Moran & Goebel Funeral Home in Decatur with visitation 9:30-10:30 a.m. Burial will be in Camp Butler National Cemetery. … Read More

Understanding China: Passion for Education Impressive

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By Jim Nowlan Outside Columnist I am spending May in Shanghai as a visiting scholar at Fudan University where I am teaching a short course in American government for smart senior undergraduate students. I also lecture to graduate students on various topics in American politics. The English of my students is impressive indeed, and no translation is needed. Because Shanghai scored highest in the world in 2012 in the math education achievement of 15 year olds, I asked my host professor if she might contact her child’s middle school to see if I could learn how the schools in Shanghai … Read More