Three Straight Wins for Baseball Timberwolves

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•April 17, 2019• By Jason Brown NP Sports Editor The Okaw Valley baseball team rattled off three straight wins this past week. OV defeated Shelbyville 9-1, Cerro Gordo/Bement 11-0 and Neoga 5-0. Saturday against Shelbyville, OV took advantage of six runs in the second inning to help pull away from the Rams. The Timberwolves tacked on three more runs in the next two innings for the eventual 9-1 win. Kadan Miller and Cale Roley each recorded two hits, and Dalton McGill, Camden Coleman and Roley each walked twice. Cameron Sharp and Roley each had two RBIs and McGill had one. … Read More

Knights Bring Big Bats to Beat Arcola

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•April 17, 2019• By Jason Brown NP Sports Editor The Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond baseball team defeated Blue Ridge and Arcola but lost two to Casey-Westfield in a doubleheader Saturday. Against Arcola on a windy day, the Knights blew a 5-4 game open with seven runs in the top of the seventh inning for the eventual 12-4 win. Ryan Yeakley picked up the win in relief, pitching two 2/3 innings. He gave up no runs on two hits and no walks. He struck out five. Dario Ayala pitched four and 1/3 innings and gave up three earned runs on four hits and three … Read More

Obituaries 4-17-2019: Nita Cherry

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Nita Cherry Nita D. Cherry, 91, of Bella Vista, Ark., passed away in Rogers, Ark. April 6, 2019. She was born June 4, 1927 in Lovington to Willis and Fern Dawson. Nita was preceded in death by her husband of 54 years, Richard Keith Cherry, parents Willis and Fern Dawson, brothers Kent E. Dawson and Dean H. Dawson and sister Ellen D. Thomas. … Read More

Correction

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•April 17, 2019• In the front page story entitled Swan Song for Bethany Foods April 10, 2019 I made an error in the photo cutline. As most of you know Ata Abbed was pictured with former employee Lois Traster of Bethany. I apologize to Lois, Ata’s wife Linda, Ata and to Ellen Ferrera for the mistake. … Read More

ALAH Hires New Supt.

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•April 17, 2019• The Arthur Lovington Atwood Hammond CUSD #305 Board of Education is announcing the hiring of Shannon Cheek as the next superintendent of schools starting July 1, 2019 to succeed Kenny Schwengel, who is retiring at the end of the school year. After completing a nationwide executive search through the Illinois Association of School Boards (IASB), Cheek was selected from a pool of 32 applicants. The search process was initiated by the board at the end of December, 2018. Cheek is the current principal of Mahomet-Seymour High School, a position he has held since 2011. Prior to that … Read More

Recent Obituaries: Magalene Linville Jackson

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Magalene Linville Jackson Magalene Linville Jackson, 95, of Sullivan passed away Sunday, April 14, 2019 at her home in Sullivan. Funeral services will be held 12:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at McMullin-Young Funeral Home, Sullivan. Visitation will be held one hour before the services at the funeral home in Sullivan. Burial will be in Keller Cemetery, Lovington. Memorials may be made to the Lovington First Baptist Church. Magalene was born August 4, 1923 in Scottsville, KY, the daughter of Oscar and Lilly (Pruitt) Witt. She married Samuel Hatten Linville in 1941; he preceded her in death in 1960. She … Read More

ALAH Softball Knocks Off MacArthur in Five

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•April 10, 2019• By Jason Brown NP Sports Editor The Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond softball team finished the week 2-1 and started the season 1-0 in the Little Okaw Valley Conference this past week. ALAH defeated MacArthur 11-1 in five innings Saturday to improve it record to 7-3 overall. The Knights scored runs in the second, third, fourth and fifth innings, including four runs in the fourth and fifth innings. Makenzie Brown was 3-for-3, including a triple, with three runs scored and a stolen base, and Shelby Frederick went 3-for-3 with four RBIs and a run scored. Addi Tinkle and Maria Garza each … Read More

Sullivan Boys’ Track Ties for Second at Quadrangular Meet

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•April 10, 2019• By Jason Brown NP Sports Editor The Sullivan boys’ track and field team competed in the 49th annual Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond Boys Invite Saturday and a quadrangular at Shelbyville last Tuesday. The Redskins placed ninth out of 15 teams in the ALAH Invite with 25 points. Tuscola won the meet with 86 points. Five Redskins placed in the top ten. Brodie Goss finished second in the 300-meter hurdles and third in the 110-meter hurdles with time of 43.81 and 17.61, respectively. Leighton Burcham placed top ten in three events. He long jumped 19 feet 5 inches for second place … Read More

Sullivan Area Ministerial Association Begins Sunday Outreach Services

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•April 10, 2019• By Ellen Ferrera for The News Progress The Sullivan Area Ministerial Association began its new initiative of providing Sunday services to local care facilities on the first Sunday of each month on April 7. Services began at Aspen Creek at 1:30 p.m., 2 p.m. at Courtyard Estates, 2:30 p.m.at Eastwood Terrace and concluded at 2:30 p.m. at Sullivan Health Care and Rehabilitation. Elim Springs Church of Jesus Christ provided services to Aspen Creek and Eastview. Bethany’s Cumberland Presbyterian Church provided services to Courtyard Estates. … Read More