Author Archives: WJBD Staff
Salem City Council learns revenues up, general fund in black before police pension transfer
City Manager Rex Barbee says the proposed $6.2-million general fund budget is in the black before a transfer to help the city catch up on funding the police pension. The city council gave first readin...
Mar 22, 2022 Salem City Manager Rex Barbee.
Salem City Council keeps recreation agreement with YMCA in place
The Salem City Council has approved a two year extension with the YMCA to help the city provide recreational services. Jed Casburn will continue to serve as both the city recreation director and YMCA ...
Mar 22, 2022
Salem City Council opens door to marijuana growing facilities in industrial zones
The Salem City Council has agreed to allow craft marijuana growing facilities as a special use in industrial zones. The decision came at the request of Matt Lowery of Hometown Heroes Consulting who is...
Mar 22, 2022 Matt Lowery of Hometown Heroes Consulting makes his request to the city council for allowing a craft marijuana growing facility in the Salem Industrial Park.
Blagoue, Lady Cats Come Back To Beat TTown In Home Opener...Softball Scores
The Salem Lady Cats improved to 2-1 with their come from behind home opening win over Teutopolis at Tully Park 10-9. Salem trailed 5-0 heading into the bottom of the fourth. Lilly Blagoue got her firs...
Mar 22, 2022 Photo by: Toby Gullion - FTS Photography.
Wildcats Watching Weather For Game With Benton Today....SC Opens Season With Tough Loss To Fairfield....Prep Baseball Roundup
The Salem Wildcats are scheduled to play Benton today, but the weather does not look good today. Also this week, Salem is set to travel to Charleston tomorrow before hosting Centralia on Thursday. The...
Mar 22, 2022 Photo by: Toby Gullion - FTS Photography
Salem Drops 2 Tight Matches At Triad Invitational
Over the weekend, Salem competed at the Triad Tennis Invitational. Salem dropped a 3-2 decision to Paris. Salem's two wins came in singles with Daniyal Islam and John Tran coming up with wins. Salem a...
Mar 22, 2022
Here is the latest Big Ten Conference sports news from The Associated Press
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Grace Berger scored the last of her 15 points on a spinning, tiebreaking layup with 28.2 seconds left and Nicole Cardano-Hillary added 12 points to help third-seeded Indiana b...
Mar 22, 2022
Antetokounmpo and Milwaukee take on DeRozan and the Bulls
Chicago Bulls (42-29, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Milwaukee Bucks (44-27, second in the Eastern Conference) Milwaukee; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EDT FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Bucks -6; over/under is 231...
Mar 22, 2022 Dale Martin / CC
DeRozan, LaVine propel Bulls to 113-99 win over Raptors
CHICAGO (AP) - DeMar DeRozan and Zach LaVine each scored 26 points and Nikola Vucevic had 19 points and 13 rebounds as the Chicago Bulls beat the Toronto Raptors 113-99. DeRozan shot 11 for 14 as the ...
Mar 22, 2022
Durant has 37 in Nets win over Jazz
UNDATED (AP) - Kevin Durant had 37 points, nine rebounds and eight assists, and the Brooklyn Nets beat the Utah Jazz 114-106 for their sixth win in seven games. Bruce Brown added 22 points for the Net...
Mar 22, 2022
