Compiled by Bekki Ferguson-Stevens

25 Years Ago This Week

Olympic weightlifting works, and Sullivan High School graduates Rodger DeGarmo, Brent and Braidy Miller and Matt Jenkins all brought home medals from the Prairie State Games to prove it.

Me and My Girl, the smash 1930’s English musical comedy which was revived and brought to Broadway in 1986, will open at The Little Theatre on the Square Wednesday, July 24 and run through Aug. 4.

Airman Colin E. Moon has graduated from Air Force basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. The son of Larry E. Moon of Bethany and Mary J. Moon of Decatur, he is a 1987 graduate of Bethany High School.

Joy Day of Lovington kept a close eye on the judge while showing her Angus steer “Alfalfa” Friday afternoon at the Moultrie-Douglas County Fair in Arthur. Alfalfa was named Champion Angus in the breed show and took Reserve Champion British Bred honors.

In his 44 years of practicing medicine, Sullivan family physician Dr. Dean E. McLaughlin can name only one thing that hasn’t been updated in medical technology. “About the only thing that hasn’t changed is anatomy,” he observed with a smile during an interview this week just days prior to his retirement from full practice.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.