Author Archives: WJBD Staff

Mt Vernon graduate Navontae Nesbit has announced he will continue his basketball career at Quincy University after finishing up at Rend Lake College this year. Nesbit had a fantastic career for the Mt...

CLEVELAND, OH - A lifelong dream is officially becoming reality for Riley Martin.   The Salem, Illinois native and Salem Community High School graduate has been called up to the Chicago Cubs big ...

The Salem Wildcats earned their first win of the baseball season, winning a makeup game with Odin/Patoka/Sandoval 7-1 in a game moved to Salem High School. Salem scored 5 runs in the first inning afte...

The Salem tennis team knocked off O'Fallon 5-4. Jarett Rushing, Carson Huggins and Caleb Squibb won their singles matches with wins in doubles coming from Rushing/Huggins and Jackson Green/Caleb Purin...

Three Salem Wildcat anglers participated in the Rob Street Memorial on Newton Lake. 99 fishermen were in the field. Kai Graham was 4th overall with the 2nd Big Bass. Landon Maxey finished 11th and Jax...

A few Salem Wrestlers are competing this weekend at the 2026 Adidas Nationals held in Independence, Missouri wrestling for PSF Wrestling. Alana Finney and Kade Orrell both made it to the All American ...

Salem 13U Wildcats banged out 18 hits and beat the Nashville Sting 21-0. Izak Holsapple and Ethan Parrett each had 3 hits including a long double by Parrett. Isaac Knapp, Nolan Krutsinger, Zach Jones,...

Centralia Varsity Orphans fell to Carbondale 5-4 on Thursday on the final play of the game. The game was tied at four in the bottom of the ninth when Gabe Otey singled, scoring one run. Carbondale wer...

Believe It or DON'T On this day in 1792, the US Mint was founded. Believe It or DON'T On this day in 1978, "Dallas" premiered. It ran for 14 seasons. Believe It or DON'T On this day in 1992, mob boss ...

Mt Vernon pulled off a win over state ranked DuQuoin 6-5. Max Nowak was the winning pitcher going 4.1 allowing 3 earned runs with 6 strikeouts. Ryker Perigo went 2.2 for the save as the Rams improve t...