Category Archives: Local News
Salem Grade School Board drops Durham Transportation, but will pay more in hopes of better service
The Salem Grade School Board Thursday night dropped Durham Transportation and approved a considerably more expensive alternative they hope will solve the district's undependable bus service. The board...
Jun 24, 2022 Salem Grade School Board meets in crowded Hawthorn gym where items are being stored due to all the construction projects.
Two Salem men stabbed during fight; both arrested for domestic battery
Salem Police arrested both men involved in a fight that resulted in stab and cut wounds to both with a kitchen knife. Police say 21-year-old Mason Allison of South Broadway and 22-year-old Dalyn Opolo...
Jun 24, 2022
Salem Grade School Superintendent says summer renovation work on schedule
Salem Grade School Superintendent Dr. Leslie Foppe says the more than $4-million in summer improvement projects underway remain on schedule to be ready for school to open in August. Foppe says there i...
Jun 24, 2022 The frame is up for the new multi-purpose building at the front of Hawthorn School.
Two pickup truck crash results in death Thursday morning
A State Police accident reconstructionist is currently investigating a head-on crash between two pickup trucks that occurred on Route 37 South of Salem near the Sassafras Road intersection. Preliminar...
Jun 23, 2022
Salem woman arrested for burglary broken up in progress
Marion County Sheriff's Deputies have arrested a 33-year-old Salem woman for burglary after she was allegedly discovered inside a business just north of Salem early Wednesday afternoon. When deputies ...
Jun 23, 2022
Police Beat for Thursday, June 23rd, 2022
Centralia Police arrested a 22-year-old Salem man on drug and theft charges after they were called to a home on Maulding Drive Wednesday night where the occupant reported items had been stolen. Kelby ...
Jun 23, 2022
Marion County Health Department reporting 121 current active COVID cases; to offer vaccines to those under five
Marion County Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow told the health department board this week that they will be offering the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to those under five years of age startin...
Jun 23, 2022
State agency buys building in Salem to coordinate disaster response in Southern Illinois
Salem is now playing a key role to disaster response and recovery across Southern Illinois. The Illinois Department of Emergency Management Agency Public Information Officer Kevin Sur has confirmed th...
Jun 23, 2022 The new Illinois Emergency Management Agency building in the Salem West Side Industrial Park.
From 'carp' to 'copi': unpopular fish getting a makeover
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - If "invasive carp" doesn't sound appetizing, how about a plate of copi? The state of Illinois is unveiling a market-tested rebranding campaign to make the fish appealing to...
Jun 23, 2022
Clinton County State's Attorney files 30 count information against Ray Tate
A Hopkinsville, Kentucky man who went on a two-state crime spree after murdering a Wayne County Sheriff's Deputy on I-64 now faces 30 criminal counts in Clinton County Court in connection with a kidna...
Jun 22, 2022 Ray Tate (Clinton County Sheriff's Department)
