Author Archives: WJBD Staff

The Salem City Council over the objection of soccer supporters has approved the sale of nearly 24 acres of land that was going to be the site of the city's soccer complex to Salem Enterprises, LLC. Th...

The Salem City Council has agreed to give its garbage contractor 50-cents more per customer for 120 days to help with inflationary costs. At that time, the council will look at the situation again. DB...

The City of Centralia has announced they will continue to be represented by the Law Office of Black, Ballard, McDonald, PC following the appointment of one of the firm's attorney's W. Kory Smith as Ci...

After a tough weekend at Highland, Salem returns to baseball action today when they host Wood River in Cahokia Conference play. Salem enters at 9-19 overall and 2-4 in the League. They beat Wood River...

North Clay improved to 22-3 with a 4-2 win over St Anthony. The Cards got on the board with 2 runs in the opening inning and added 2 more in the fourth before the Bulldogs scored 2 in their final at b...

After having the weekend off, the Salem Lady Cats open a busy week as they host Cahokia opponent Wood River to Tully Park. The Salem Lady Cats along with Carlyle, Trenton and Greenville softball teams...

The NTC Softball Tournament opened up at Effingham. 3rd seed South Central earned an 8-1 win over Dieterich to advance to tomorrow's semifinals at 6pm against 2nd seed Windsor/Stew Stras at Evergreen ...

Odin/Patoka/Sandoval beat Grayville 12-0 in the opening round of the Midland Trail Tournament. The Lady Eagles used an 11-run 3rd inning to get the win. Trista Moore was 3-3 with a homerun and 4 RBI. ...

Over the weekend, Salem Bowl held the Wesley Hunter Memorial Tournament. Several kids left winning scholarship money which included Gavin Winkler, Brighton Lucas, Elena Vanhoutin, Adriana Byrd, Nathan...

UNDATED (AP) - The Phoenix Suns team that bulldozed through the regular-season schedule reappeared in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals. Deandre Ayton scored 25 points, Devin Booker added 23...