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The Salem Community Theatre will be showing the movie Grease this Saturday night, May 13th. Experience the friendships, romances, and adventures of a group of high school kids in the 1950s. Dust off y...

The Salem Wildcats fell at state ranked Altamont 4-2 yesterday. Salem could only muster 1 hit against senior Mason Robinson. He would strike out 10 and walk 4 allowing 1 earned run. Salem's hit came o...

The Salem Lady Cats will get their final tune up this regular season when they host Flora before opening up their 2a Regional also in Greenville next week opening up Tuesday afternoon. South Central k...

The Salem girls track team competed at the Mascoutah 2a Sectional yesterday. Freshman Finley Puricelli is heading to state. She finished 2nd in the 400m in a time of 1:01.06 to punch her ticket to nex...

The Christ Our Rock Lady Stallions competed at the IHSA Sectional Track and Field meet today at Chester High School and I'm proud to announce we have two girls that are State Bound in the 3200 meter r...

Salem's Alek Bandy vaulted the Salem Wildcats into 3rd place at the Cahokia Championships with his 2nd place finish in the pole vault held at Breese Central on Wednesday afternoon. Those points moved ...

Regional championships will be played in girl's 1a soccer today. Marquette will host Carlinville, Freeburg welcomes Columbia, Mater Dei plays the hosts at McGivney, Litchfield takes on Hillsboro at Gr...

At the Little League Complex in Majors play, Schmidt Ford got a combined no hitter from 2 pitchers in their win over Larimer Abstract 14-0. Owen Tennyson and Tanner Purintun combined for the no-no. Te...

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The Executive Director of the Centralia Community Youth Center Herb Williams says an 80 by 100 foot addition is planned with a $249,000 state grant. Williams says the additional space will transform t...