Christmas Raffle

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•December 6, 2023• C.E.F.S. is holding a Christmas raffle for Illinois Legacy Seats until Wednesday, December 20. Tickets are $25 and the winner will receive two tickets to the game of their choice (of available tickets at time of drawing) during the 2023-24 Illinois men’s basketball season. Seats are located in the Legacy Club, section 135, of State Farm Center and has pregame access to exclusive concessions. Tickets will be distributed electronically upon selection. Only 250 tickets will be sold for the raffle. Tickets can be purchased from C.E.F.S. Moultrie County Outreach office located at 114 S. Harrison St in … Read More

Breakfast with Santa

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•December 6, 2023• Sullivan FCCLA will have Breakfast with Santa on Saturday, December 9 from 8 to 10 am at the SHS commons. Breakfast will include two pancakes per person and drink choices of hot chocolate, coffee, juice or milk. The event will include activities, crafts, cookie decorating and a chance to take photos with Santa. Entry is free. Kids are encouraged to wear their pajamas. The Sullivan royalty and the Illinois FCCLA officer team will be in attendance reading Christmas stories. The first 150 kids in attendance will receive a goody bag to take home. Donations accepted for PAWS … Read More

Letters to Santa

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•December 6, 2023• The News Progress will be printing Letters to Santa in our December 20 issue. If your child would like to write a letter to Santa it can be e-mailed to santa@newsprogress.com. It must be received by Noon on Wednesday, December 13. … Read More

Recent Obituaries: Charlene Joyce Elzy

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Charlene Joyce Elzy Charlene Joyce Elzy, 86, of Sullivan, passed away at 7:44 p.m. Tuesday November 28, 2023 in Sarah Bush Hospital, Mattoon. Celebration of Life services will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday December 2, 2023 in the Reed Funeral Home, Sullivan with Pastor Bob Vail officiating. Visitation will be Saturday from 10:00 a.m. until service time. Burial will be in the Jonathan Creek Cemetery, Sullivan. Memorials are suggested to the family. Online condolences may be sent to the family at reedfuneralhome.net. Charlene was born July 17, 1937 in Arthur, the daughter of Thomas and Erma Kercheval Jocelyn. She had worked at the … Read More

Santa is Coming to Bethany

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Santa will be coming to Bethany on Sunday, December 3 from 3:00 to 4:30 pm at the Bethany Train Depot. There will be cookies and hot chocolate at the library and a tree lighting at the village hall. There will also be door prizes. Attendees are encouraged to bring a non-perishable food item for the Bethany Food Pantry. The event is sponsored by the Village of Bethany, BASO and Bethany businesses. … Read More

A Look Back…11-29-2023

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2013  The Sullivan AmBuCs chapter provided a bike for 12 year old Zoe Powell who dreamed of being able to ride a bike but was born with a condition that a traditional bike would not be an option for her. AmTrykes can be operated via hand or food pedal to accommodate different needs.  The Lovington Girl Scout Troop 3009 conducted their annual food drive collecting more than 500 pounds of nonperishable food and paper goods for Lovington’s Christ Pantry which supplies food to those in need not only in Lovington but in surrounding communities. One Book One Sullivan announced their … Read More

Upcoming Blood Drives

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•November 29, 2023• ImpactLife will be holding several upcoming blood drives in the month of December. There will be a drive at Mid-State Tank on Tuesday, December 12 from 7:00 am to Noon on a donor bus at 1357 Jonathan Creek Road, Sullivan. There will also be a drive at Agri-Fab Inc. on Friday, December 15 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm in the Gold Classroom at 809 S. Hamilton Street. The Cadwell community will have a blood drive on Tuesday, December 19 from 3:00 to 7:00 pm in a donor bus parked by M&E Woodcrafts at 1533 CR 1900N. … Read More

One Book One Sullivan Reveals This Book Choice During Assembly

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•November 29, 2023• by Crystal Reed One Book, One Sullivan is excited to present City Spies by James Ponti as the 2023-2024 book choice. Sullivan Middle School students worked diligently to choose the book which would best match interests of middle school through adult readers. According to the author’s website, www.jamesponti.com, Sarah Martinez is a hacker facing years in juvenile detention, until she meets Mother, a spy who gets her out of jail and into MI6, British Secret Intelligence. Operating out of a castle in Scotland, the City Spies are five kids from around the world who’ve fallen through the … Read More

What’s Wrong with a Big, Beautiful Grammar Column?

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•November 29, 2023• Boy, what I wouldn’t give for a big, beautiful, delicious, juicy cheeseburger right about now. Or would it be a beautiful, juicy, delicious, big cheeseburger? That second variation doesn’t have quite the same mouth feel, does it? That’s because while few of us aware of it, there is an order to the multiplicity of adjectives we apply to things. I never learned about this in school, but I’ve seen enough internet tropes about it to know there is something to it. … Read More