News Progress

•January 19, 2022• By Cheri Burcham, Family Life Educator The season for giving has come to a close, but if your kids are more focused on all that they can get this time of year, how about trying a gratitude practice? This article written by Extension Educator Leilah Siegel focuses helping our youth to foster gratitude and the importance it has in their lives. Leilah says: Studies have shown that people who regularly practiced gratitude were found to have lower rates of depression, more impulse control, and stronger immune systems. By encouraging children to develop these habits at an early … Read More

Dear Editor, The notion that Sullivan electric utilities are comparable to surrounding communities has been dispelled. Beginning in March of 2021, Sullivan City Council (the Council) has been presented with indisputable evidence that Sullivan residents and businesses pay twice the rate of Lovington, Arthur, and Findlay. It is estimated that electric rates in Sullivan and Bethany are the highest in five (5) surrounding counties. Although Ameren has received permission to increase rates beginning in January 2022, the Citizen’s Utility Board (CUB) has estimated that the rate increase will be less than $2.75 to Ameren customers’ monthly bill. Which means that … Read More

•January 19, 2022• By Jim Baumann NP Guest Writer How is it that two nearly identical words can describe something I love so much that I write about it almost every week and something that makes me recoil in terror? No, I’m not talking about “dessert” and “desert,” but there probably is something to that. I’m talking, of course, about “entomology” and “etymology.” “Etymology” is the study of the origin of words and how they’ve changed throughout history. “Entomology” is the study of insects. Cut to the scene in “The Silence of the Lambs” in which Agent Starling consults the … Read More