Illinois State Fair Announces 2023 Theme Days

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•March 1, 2023• The Illinois State Fair recently announced new theme and discount days for 2023. Changes have been made from theme days in years past. County Fairs and Horse Racing Day will start it all off on Thursday, August 10 with gates opening at 7am. This change will provide a full day of horse racing, county fair celebrations, free entertainment, carnival rides, all of your favorite fair food, traditional kick off activities and the annual Twilight Parade. Agriculture Day moves to Friday, August 11, allowing for more livestock exhibitors and youth in agriculture participants to be on the grounds … Read More

What’s The Incidence of ‘Instance’ Mistakes

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•March 1, 2023• By Jim Baumann NP Guest Writer It’s 3:36 p.m. on Friday, and this lede is all I have to show for this column so far. I’m sure you can smell my desperation for a topic. Sometimes running a newsroom during election season gets in the way of writing pithy things about grammar. Enter Patt Baumann, the love of my life and occasional column saver. “Oooh, write about the difference between ‘incidents’ and ‘instances,’” she said. Patt tells me she hears people use “incidents” and “instances” interchangeably. I’d never given that much thought, but it’s a good idea. … Read More

Remember When? 3-1-2023

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25 Years Ago This Week The Sullivan Singers and the Sullivan Singer Jr. brought home honors from the Pekin Show Choir Invitational. Singers Jr. walked away with the grand championship trophy in the junior high division, earning perfect scores in choreography and show from all three judges. The Sullivan Singers ended the day of preliminary competition as one of six groups selected to compete in the finals. Singers captured fourth place. New Generation, Sullivan’s all girl show choir also competed placing third. … Read More

Monthly Quarter Madness

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•March 1, 2023• Moultrie County Monthly Quarter Madness will hold their March Quarter Auction on Wednesday, March 8. The event will be held at the Sullivan American Legion. Sullivan High School FCCLA is the charity of the month. SHS FCCLA uses funds for various competitions by their members, service projects, networking and offset other club expenses. Vendors at the event could include: direct sales such as Avon, Scentsy, JBloom Jewelry, Thirty-One, Tastefully Simple, Paper Pei (formerly Usbourne Books), Pampered Chef, PLUS different craft vendors, hair bows, boutique clothing, shoes, accessories and more. Come shop the vendors and stay for the … Read More

New Water Plant on Schedule for July 2023 Start Up

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•March 1, 2023• by Crystal Reed One of the current projects for the city of Sullivan is a new water plant which is currently under construction. The original cost estimate was $8.5 million, but with the cost of equipment and supplies after COVID, they are close to $9.5 million. According to Commissioner of Public Safety and Health Chuck Woodworth, the determination of the need for a new water plant was done by the Illinois EPA. They evaluated the current plant and pointed out the deficiencies of no redundancy of the main treatment process equipment. “There is only one softner, currently,” … Read More

Sullivan City Council Approves Memorandum of Understanding Between City and Illinois Fraternal Order of Police

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•March 1, 2023• by Crystal Reed The Sullivan City Council approved a memorandum of understanding between the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police (IFOP) Labor Council and the City of Sullivan. Commissioner Mike Fowler was absent. Mayor Richard Glazebrook said this is something they are trying to use to keep and not burn out officers. The city is supposed to have nine officers. They currently have six full-time trained officers and two untrained. “We have a lot of rules and regulations we have to follow through the state of Illinois, and we are trying to make this easy as we can … Read More