Author Archives: WJBD Staff
Centralia Halloween Parade Chair happy with participation
Centralia Halloween Parade Chair Jackie Butch Mathus is calling this year a rebuilding year for the Fall Festival and is pleased with how everything came back together following a year off for COVID-1...
Nov 01, 2021 Wamac Mayor and Centralia Parade Chair Butch Mathis having fun riding down the parade route Saturday night. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Marion County Sheriff's Department investigates theft
The Marion County Sheriff's Department is investigating a theft of a number of items outside a home just outside the southeast Centralia City Limits. A resident in the 1700 block of South Perrine repo...
Nov 01, 2021
Salem City Council to discuss downtown Christmas event
The Salem City Council will be asked at its meeting Monday night to allow the Bicentennial Park and Sweney's Corner to be used for a downtown Christmas Event on Saturday, December 4th. The city, YMCA ...
Nov 01, 2021
Marion County sees another 9-percent decline in COVID-19 cases last week; Clinton County falls to substantial level
The federal Center for Disease Control reports the steady decline in COVID-19 cases is continuing through most of South Central Illinois. Only 58 new cases were reported in Marion County for the weeke...
Nov 01, 2021 Raed Mansour / CC
2 fatally shot, several more injured at Chicago-area party
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - Authorities say two people died and several more were injured in an overnight shooting at a suburban Chicago Halloween party. Will County sheriff's deputies say a patrol sergeant h...
Nov 01, 2021
Salem Elks donates to Little Egypt Festival and Salem Shop with a Cop
The Salem Elks Lodge donated $1500 to the Salem community last week. A $750 to the Salem Police for their Shop-with-a- Cop program and $750 to the Little Egypt Festival Committee. Robyn Duncan and Bob...
Nov 01, 2021
Wildcats Season Ends At Breese Saturday Night
The Salem Wildcats football season came to an end Saturday night falling at Breese Central 20-0 in front of a capacity crowd at Astroth Field. The game was scoreless after the first quarter, but the C...
Nov 01, 2021 Photo Credit: Greg Maxey.
Salem's XC Season Ends...CORHLS Girls Heading To State
The Salem cross country season came to an end at the Decatur St Teresa Sectionals over the weekend. The boys finished 17th. Moving on as a team were Arthur, St Joseph Ogden, Monticello, St Teresa, New...
Nov 01, 2021
SC & Centralia Prepare For Volleyball Sectionals Tonight
The prep volleyball Sectionals will open up tonight. In Class 1a, South Central is making their 11th Sectional appearance in school history with their lone title coming in 2011. The Lady Cougars are 2...
Nov 01, 2021
Salem Soccer's 7th/8th Wrap up their season with a big win
Salem Soccer's 7th/8th grade team have completed their fall season. Overall, they went 12-2. They scored an impressive 106 goals throughout the season and only allowed 19. They were 8-0 in the SWIS le...
Nov 01, 2021
