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2020 10/30 - Wanda M. Fatheree
Wanda M. Fatheree, age 85 of Salem, passed away on Monday October 26, 2020 at Salem Township Hospital. Wanda worked as a homemaker and helped her husband in many of his jobs. She worked for ADM in Dec...
Oct 27, 2020
2020 11/01 - John Richard Barkley
John Richard Barkley, age 85 of Salem, passed away on Monday, October 26, 2020 at Twin Willows Nursing Home in Salem. John was a draftsman at the Siegler Company in Centralia and later transferred to ...
Oct 27, 2020
Salem Grad Crosby Gets His Hoops Season Going
Salem grad Damond Crosby and the Indiana University Northwest Redhawks opened their hoops season splitting a pair of games this weekend. They defeated Waldorf University 89-77. Crosby finished with 12...
Oct 27, 2020
Bobcat MVP of the Week - Sierra Malone
This week's Franklin Park Bobcat MVP of the Week sponsored by Kane Insurance is Sierra Malone. Sierra loves making bracelets and earrings. Her favorite subject is reading. Her favorite food is waterme...
Oct 27, 2020
Fairfield 8th Grader Ella Sager With Perfect XC Ending
With the junior high cross country season in the books, special recognition going out to Fairfield 8th grader Ella Sager. The Salem regional individual champion made school history going undefeated al...
Oct 27, 2020
Mt Vernon HOF Coach Passes Away
Hall of Fame football coach Brad Pancoast has passed away. He was the varsity head coach for Mt Vernon for 17 years over 2 stints and took multiple teams to the playoffs. Had the playoff structure bee...
Oct 27, 2020
NASCAR's Cup playoff at misty Texas put on hold another day
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The NASCAR Cup playoff race at Texas has been pushed back yet another day because of misty conditions that soaked the track. NASCAR will try again Tuesday. After only 52 laps ...
Oct 27, 2020
Statewide positivity rate up two percent in past two weeks to 6.3%
The Illinois governor again implored residents to take precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Monday during a stop at OSF St. Fra...
Oct 26, 2020
Marion County records 58 new COVID-19 cases
The Marion County Health Department reported 58 new cases of the COVID-19 virus over the weekend and on Monday. Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow says four of the new cases were in school...
Oct 26, 2020
2020 11/01 - Norman Charles Christ Tiemann
Norman Charles Christ Tiemann, age 87, of Richview, Illinois, passed away from pneumonia (not COVID) at 11:32 P.M., on October 28, 2020, at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital in Centralia, Illinois....
Oct 26, 2020
