Moultrie Moment of the Week
Former Lawmakers Seek Back Pay for Raises they Voted Against
•May 18, 2022• By Capital News Illinois Two former state senators who sponsored and voted for bills to reduce lawmakers’ pay and forgo annual cost-of-living adjustments are now asking the Illinois Supreme Court to declare those measures unconstitutional and award them their back pay. Former Sens. Michael Noland, D-Elgin, and James Clayborne, D-Belleville, have been successful so far in their legal efforts, prevailing in 2019 in Cook County Circuit Court before Judge Franklin Valderrama. But Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza, the defendant in the case, filed a direct appeal to the state’s highest court arguing that Valderrama got the decision wrong. … Read More
Obituaries 5-18-2022: Ilene Bryant
Ilene Bryant Ilene J. Bryant, 78, of Sullivan, passed away at 1:50 p.m., Sunday, May 8, 2022. in Mason Point in Sullivan with her family by her side. … Read More
Obituaries 5-18-2022: Jody Benedict
Jody Benedict Jody Lyn Benedict, 53 of College Station, TX, formerly of Lovington, passed away at 5:13 a.m., May 12, 2022, at Ascension Medical Center in Austin, Tex., with her Mom by her side. … Read More
Letter to the Editor 5-18-2022
WAKE UP SULLIVAN The outrageous increases in Sullivan utility rates were not necessary nor were they warranted. Much to my consternation, I could not have predicted that the sale of the Titus Farm would haunt the very same Councilpersons that initiated the sale of the Titus Farm. In 2019 (the only year Sullivan received proceeds from the sale of grain on the Titus Farm), Sullivan recorded $500,000 in profits from the sale of grain. Yes, the residents would have gained at least $500,000 each year for eternity. That money could have gone for parks, roads, bond payments on the new … Read More
Moultrie Moment of the Week
Head over Heels and other Head-Scratchers
•May 18, 2022• By Jim Baumann NP Guest Writer Things often don’t sound right to me. But then I have this column, so perhaps I’m predisposed to being picky. Bill McLean wrote to tell me of a few head-scratchers: • What I hear: “I live in the suburbs.” • What I think: I live in Palatine, one suburb. • What I hear: “Want to go to the movies?” • What I think: Don’t people usually go to see one movie? … Read More
Remember When? 5-18-2022
25 Years Ago This Week The Little Theatre On The Square was opening its 40th season with Sugar Babies, then Brigadoon, Forever Plaid, Crazy For You and closing the season in August with Godspell. Lovington School District hired a grade school principal. Doug Slover of Flora, who had been an elementary and junior high principal for ten years was hired to replace Rosemary Brown who was retiring. … Read More