News Progress

•July 31, 2024• The Village of Bethany on July 10th posted a message on the village FaceBook page expressing they are looking into and getting ready for the next open house. For previous open houses Bethany has already done a lemonade stand, cookies and punch, cupcakes and donuts, easter crafts, cookies and cocoa and ice cream sundaes. The village hosts these open house events as a fun and enjoyable experience for all ages and overall be an inviting experience to those who are new. Bethany is currently taking ideas on what the next event should have, to submit ideas or … Read More

•July 31, 2024• After Sullivan successfully got a shooting sports team, the Moultrie County, Illinois Hunter Safety Facebook page posted start dates for hunter safety courses. The importance behind hunters attending these courses is not only to keep the hunter safe but also to keep the people around them safe. Average hunter safety courses discuss the responsibility and ethics of firing and handling a firearm. The course also goes over safety tips with ammunition and identifies zones of fire from those of populated areas where firing is prohibited. These safety courses also provide education on killing for sport or killing … Read More

Big Spring Day •July 31, 2024• by Janet Roney Big Spring Township, Shelby County, Illinois, was soft, tender, and flooded with new life that May day in 1999. There were no hard edges, even on the dissolving lichen covered sandstone tombstones in Spain Cemetery.  It was like being in a wet-in-wet watercolor as it was painted all around us. Low hanging clouds of Paynes Gray seeped into the Thalo Green tree line on the far south edge of the Little Wabash River bottom, mixing the colors. Low rumbling thunder, dampened by the spongy atmosphere, pulsed softly from just over the … Read More