Obituaries 11-18-2020: Charles Dyer
Charles Dyer Charles L. Dyer, 89, formerly of Lovington passed away at 5:39 p.m. Thursday, November 12, 2020 at Amberwood Care in Rockford. … Read More
Makenzie Brown Signs With Golden Hurricane of Tulsa For Softball
•November 18, 2020• by Jason Brown NP Sports Despite missing her junior year of softball, Makenzie Brown has garnered a lot of attention from collegiate scouts. Eastern Illinois, Illinois State, Eastern Kentucky, Ball State and Southern Illinois-Edwardsville each showed interested in recruiting her. Why so much attention? Well, as a sophomore, Brown proved what type of clutch player she could be. She helped the Knights win the Class 2A Newton Regional after defeating host Newton 7-3. … Read More
The Letter Z is Always First In My Heart
•November 18, 2020• By Jim Baumann NP Guest Writer While wearing one of my other columnist hats recently, I wrote about our policy for handling election mug shots in the newspaper. It wasn’t the idea that we run them with an eye toward fairness — ensuring that the candidates for a given race have similar, suitable expressions or that we always run them the same size — that got reader Stan Zegel’s goat. Zegel expressed what I now surmise (from our follow-up conversation) was feigned outrage over the ORDER in which we run them. Remember the name of the guy … Read More
Mo. Co. Ag In The Classroom Visits Local Schools With Giant Pumpkin
•November 18, 2020• By Steph Naylor Moultrie County Ag in the Classroom continues to find a way to interact with the students in the county. After such great feedback teaming up with the Okaw Valley Orchard in September they decided to team up with Buxton’s for October. Moultrie County Ag in the Classroom and Moultrie County Soil and Water district purchased 685 coupons from Buxton’s for a small free pumpkin. These coupons were handed out in a packet along with a pumpkin pencil, pumpkin eraser, and a pumpkin sticker in a small bag to each elementary student in our county … Read More
Sullivan Fire Dept. Adds New Ambulance To Its Fleet
•November 18, 2020• By Crystal Reed NP Writer The Sullivan Fire Department recently added a new ambulance to their fleet. The ambulance is a 2020 Dodge Ram 4500 and the cost to the department was $230,000. In 2019, the department approached the City of Sullivan asking for money to purchase the new ambulance and four powerload cots. The City granted part of the monetary request through TIF funds so that they could purchase the ambulance and one powerload cot. Just recently the department approached the city again requesting the remaining amount of the monetary request so that they may purchase … Read More
Cost Sharing Agreement For Route 32 Intersection Voted Down
•November 18, 2020• By Crystal Reed NP Writer A motion to approve an agreement with the Illinois Department of Transportation regarding cost sharing responsibilities for the improvement of the Illinois Route 32 intersection with Moultrie County Highway 4, Section 1,2 N unanimously failed Thursday evening. The Moultrie County Board, in a letter drafted and signed by county engineer Jeff Birch and board chair Dave McCabe, opted to record their opposition to the current IDOT plans for the intersection. The county is responsible for one leg of the intersection while the remainder of the intersection is the responsibility of the Illinois … Read More
Forecasters project long-term deficits, growing bill backlog
Pritzker to seek federal aid, possible business tax increases •November 18, 2020• By Peter Hancock Capitol News Illinois phancock @ capitolnewsillinois.com A new report from the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget shows that without significant new revenue, spending cuts or a combination of both, the state will face a budget deficit of $3.9 billion in the current fiscal year and continuing deficits of $4 billion or more in each of the next five fiscal years. It also projects that the state’s backlog of unpaid bills could grow to as much as $33 billion by fiscal year 2026, up from … Read More
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Dora Township Caucuses
The Dora Township caucuses are on December 1 and the Multi-Township caucuses are on December 2 at their designated locations.
Did the whole country go red or am I seeing things?
•November 11, 2020• by Jim Baumann Guest Writer For those of you who dream of the entire country going red, check out the photo I’ve attached to this column. I grabbed a red onion from the cupboard Thursday morning for breakfast and, as is usually the case, was unable to transport it to the cutting board without losing a piece of onion skin detritus on the floor. “What’s this?” my eagle-eyed wife asked a couple of hours later. It was not so much a question as an admonition. I swear, red onions instinctively shed their skin just to annoy housemates. … Read More