ALAH Knights Returning Lettermen Drive Team Forward

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•August 28, 2019• By Jason Brown NP Sports Editor In his first year as Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond varsity football coach, Ryan Jefferson’s squad finished the season with an overall record of 2-7. In his second year, Jefferson hopes to utilize his team’s speed, including 12 returning letter winners, to push for a playoff berth. “Our goals are to be competitive in the conference and to make playoffs,” Jefferson said. “If a conference championship is a realistic possibility later in the season, that’s great. But we want to be consistently competitive, and we’re hopeful that if we are, it will translate to a … Read More

Blue Dolphin Achieves Amazing Three Weeks of Competition

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•August 28, 2019• By Jamie Crosier for The Blue Dolphins Sullivan Blue Dolphin Ethan Schmohe finished out the summer swim season with three major weekends of swimming. Head coach Jason Drury said, “Illinois swimming is one of the hardest states. Ethan started his three-week accomplishments at Peoria where he swam at the Regional Time Qualifying Meet. He has been working hard at practice and I knew he had the ability to hit his goals.” At Regionals, he competed in four events. He had more qualifying events, but his goal was to get a state cut in all four. This is … Read More

Obituaries 8-28-2019: Gertrude Shirey

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Gertrude Shirey Gertrude Jane Shirey, 98, of Sullivan, passed away at 2:56 a.m. Thursday, August 22, 2019 at Mason Point in Sullivan. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Monday, August 26 at Southern Baptist Church in Sullivan. Burial will be in Greenhill Cemetery in Sullivan. McMullin-Young Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.   … Read More

Sullivan Golfers Place at Course

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•August 28, 2019• The Sullivan golf team placed ninth with a score of 352 in the John Macek Invitational at the University of Illinois Orange Course Monday. Hillsboro won the Champaign Centennial hosted tournament with a score of 321. Layton Ellis recorded the Redskins’ best score at 83 and finished 15th. … Read More

A Host of New Coaches in Position for Sullivan Teams

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•August 28, 2019• By Jason Brown NP Sports Editor The Sullivan High School has shuffled a few coaching positions around in preparation for the new school year. The Redskins will have new coaches in football, baseball, volleyball, softball and cross country. For fall sports, Sullivan alumnus Nathan Becker has taken over the football team and stepped down as baseball coach, and Christy Molzen has taken over for her third stint as the volleyball coach. Tabitha Davis was hired as the softball coach, and Jason Badman is taking over for Becker as the baseball coach. Nathan Becker Football coach Nathan Becker … Read More

Letter to the Editor on the Fair Graduated Tax

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•August 28, 2019• Illinois has been stuck with the regressive flat income tax since 1971. Since then, counties across the state have had to increase property and sales taxes to fund education, infrastructure and other priorities. Supporters of this failing flat income tax system often point to Illinois’ neighbors, saying they are lower tax states. This isn’t the truth. … Read More

ALAH Board Looks into APPTEGY, a New School Branding Tool

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•August 28, 2019• By Ariana Cherry for the News Progress At the beginning of his superintendent’s report during the ALAH School Board meeting on Wednesday, August 21, Superintendent Shannon Creek noted that he had visited all the schools in the district during registration, and they were all very busy with a lot of activity going on. Amanda Romine reported that the online registration was very successful for the district. Arthur Grade School had 141 students who had preregistered online, Atwood: 114; Lovington: 66 and ALAH had 161. High school principal Steffanie Seegmiller noted that more than 50% of the high … Read More

Recent Obituaries: Gertrude Jane Shirey

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Gertrude Jane Shirey Gertrude Jane Shirey, 98, of Sullivan, passed away 2:56 a.m. Thursday, August 22, 2019, at Mason Point, Sullivan. Funeral services will be held 11:00 a.m. Monday, August 26, 2019, at the Southern Baptist Church, Sullivan. Visitation will be held an hour prior to the service Monday at the church. Burial will be in Greenhill Cemetery, Sullivan. Memorials may be made to the Southern Baptist Church, Sullivan, or to the Mason Point Activity Fund. McMullin-Young Funeral Home is in care of the arrangements. Gertrude was born October 30, 1920 in Boone, NC; the daughter of William Harrison and … Read More

Newspaper Owner Named Chair for State Funeral for WWII Veterans

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•August 21, 2019• Bi-partisan initiative to request the President of the United States designate final salute to greatest generation of service members Well-known newspaper owner, journalist, and community leader John Galer is the new Illinois state chair for the State Funeral for World War II Veterans, the nonprofit announced today. He leads the Prairie States’ bi-partisan efforts to request the President of the United States to designate this final salute to greatest generation of service members. “It’s really a privilege to be part of this project,” said Galer. “My grandfather served in World War I and my father in World … Read More