Recent Obituaries: Jacob Moxley

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Jacob Moxley Jacob Allan Moxley, 34, of Sullivan, passed away, 1:45 a.m. Wednesday, February 3, 2021, at his home in Sullivan, surrounded by friends and family. Funeral services will be held 12:00 p.m. Saturday, February 6, 2021, at Solid Rock Chapel, Sullivan. Visitation will be held from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Saturday at the church. Face masks are suggested and please practice social distancing for the services. Burial will be in Greenhill Cemetery, Sullivan. Memorials may be made to donor’s choice. Jacob was born October 27, 1986, in Decatur; the son of James and Linda Moxley. He married Danielle … Read More

Obituaries 2-3-2021: John Green

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John Green John J. Green, 94, of Sullivan, passed away in his home January 29, 2021, surrounded by his family. Celebration of Life services were held at 1:30 p.m. today (Wednesday) at Reed Funeral Home in Sullivan with Pastor Kenny Bontrager officiating. Burial with military rites conducted by the Sullivan American Legion was in Greenhill Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to Wounded Warriors. Online condolences may be sent to the family at reedfuneralhome.net … Read More

ALAH Loses to Tuscola

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•February 3, 20201• by Jason Brown NP Sports For a start of the season that many did not believe would come, local boys’ and girls’ basketball teams tipped into action this week. After the Illinois High School Association announced new guidelines that basically allowed basketball to start practice and games, athletic directors, coaches, and athletes scrambled to set scheduled and began action as soon as possible. Sullivan The Sullivan girls’ opened their season Monday, February 1, with a home game against Villa Grove. And the boys’ team is scheduled to begin next week. Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond … Read More

Atwood-Hammond Grade School Honors

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•February 3, 20201• 6th grade Straight A Honor Roll: Owen Herring, Langsten Klay, Billy Lieb, Cassidy Rohacs, Cooper Shoemaker, Layla Skeeters. 6th grade Honor Roll: Kimberly Hernandez, Kaitlyn Jacobs, Tyler Lisanby, Kale McComas, Jayden Parsons, Embrey Reardon, Rylan Schrock, Riley Strode, Benjamin Newhouse. 7th grade Straight A Honor Roll: Lucas Butcher, Savannah Butcher, Anna Rawlins. 7th grade Honor Roll: Ryker Beckmier, Kamden Morfey. 8th grade Straight A Honor Roll: Mitiku Appleby, Calahan Binion, Savannah Fagan, Maddix Stirrett. 8th grade Honor Roll: Ryan Appleby, Brooke Bolsen, Layla Deel, Jewelyonna Hutchcraft, Lindsay Rohacs, Ava Sherwood. … Read More

We Strove for the Future, but the Past was our Foundation

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•February 3, 20201• By Jerry L. Ginther NP Guest Writer Sure, as teens and young adults we looked forward to being on our own. Thinking how liberating it would be to experience the good life we would create for ourselves. Wrongly assuming, most of the time, that our parents had wasted their opportunities, and we thought we would never make the same mistakes. After all we were better educated, and the world had left the last generation and their ideas in the proverbial dustbin, along with the horse and buggy. After the wars, signs of prosperity were everywhere. Indoor plumbing … Read More

Five-Year-Old and His Mother Rescue Neighbor From Pond

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•February 3, 20201• By Crystal Reed NP Writer Late last summer Richard Isaacs, 79, of Sullivan had a small garden and decided it would be better to water it from a pond on his property; so he got a bucket, and when he stepped down to fill it, he went face first into the pond. He yelled for help for about 40 minutes, but no one was outside to hear his cries. Eventually, Ashlee Florey and her five-year-old son Oliver were letting their dog out and heard yelling from the other side of the subdivision, roughly 100 feet away. … Read More

Remember Whyen? 2-3-2021

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25 Years Ago This Week It won’t be on the Sullivan square anymore, but the Don “Brownie” Brown’s carpeting business will continue, incorporated into Atchison True Value Hardware. The 40 year old Barnes Floor Covering Business is being absorbed into Dick and Mimi Atchison’s hardware center at 1315 South Hamilton. Sullivan High School Illinois State Scholars were announced. They were Phoebe Bowers, Brian Reedy, Brianne Bolin, Darleen Chapranda, Ericka Ozee, Amanda Klein and Jill Farris. Bethany High School Illinois State Scholars were Teri Zimmer, Jamie Banning and Jon Ashley. … Read More

Our Elections Are Safeguarded From Fraud

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•February 3, 20201• By Ellen Ferrara NP Guest Writer When America’s founding fathers envisioned this new nation, they were united in the pledge that it would be a democracy governed by the will of the people and never by a king, dictator or autocrat. To ensure that government of the people, by the people and for the people would long endure they created an election process whereby every citizen should have a free and equal vote to decide who would govern them. Over 200 years later, we still struggle with ensuring equality in our voting system. In the most recent … Read More