Category Archives: Local News
Over 500 registered for All Class Reunion; past Variety Show participants being sought
Organizers of the SCHS All Class Reunion says there are now over 500 registered guests for the Friday and Saturday, April 8th and 9th event. One of the highlights of the weekend is the All Class Varie...
Mar 21, 2022
Odin FFA receives Living to Serve Grant
The Odin FFA chapter has received a Spring Semester-Long Living to Serve Grant. The $1,200 grant from the National FFA organization will help the Odin chapter address poverty and student nutrition by ...
Mar 21, 2022 Odin FFA Chapter members. Pictured L to R, Front Row: Mr. Wyatt Capps; Agriculture Teacher & FFA Advisor, Mrs. Sarah Loepker; School Social Worker, Elijah Smith, Landon Jones, and Dylan Corrie. Back Row: Aaron Oliver, Kyle Friend, Carson Parrish, Brandon Hamburg, Colin Haines, Trenton Simmons, and Jada Simpson.
More than 75 attend open house at William Jennings Bryan Birthplace; building improvements on the way
The Salem Historical Commission is pleased with the more than 75 who took time out on Saturday to visit the William Jennings Bryan Birthplace Home and Museum on South Broadway. Historical Commission V...
Mar 21, 2022 William Jennings Bryan Birthplace Museum on South Broadway. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Police Beat for Monday, March 21st, 2022
Salem Police have arrested 22-year-old Kelby Firnhaber of Markland Street in Salem for alleged possession of methamphetamine. He was taken into custody early Monday morning when police were called to ...
Mar 21, 2022
Irvington Grade School 3rd Quarter Honor Roll
High Honor Roll: 5th Grade: Adelynn Beal Evan Gwin Pacer Szopinski 7th Grade: Chloe Foltz Chauncey Miller Kimber Grimes 8th Grade: Benjamin Wangler Dylan Kuhns Honor Roll: 6th Grade: Brooke Kozuszek K...
Mar 21, 2022
Moore scores 21, Houston hammers Illinois to make Sweet 16
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Taze Moore scored 21 points, Jamal Shead added 18, and Houston, a Final Four team last season, advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament with a 68-53 win over Illinois. The Ill...
Mar 20, 2022
One treated for minor injuries following crash on South Hotze Road
One person was injured in a single-car crash on South Hotze Road near the Nation Road intersection south of Salem Saturday afternoon. Initial information from the Marion County Sheriff's Department in...
Mar 20, 2022
Public being asked to help locate missing 17-year-old Flora teen
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is asking for the public's help in locating a 17-year-old Flora teen who has not been seen since December 29th, 2021. Luka Ferrell has brown hair...
Mar 20, 2022
Canadian Pacific rail work stoppage could hit US agriculture
DETROIT (AP) - Canadian Teamsters and CP Rail blamed each other for a work stoppage Sunday that halted trains across Canada and interrupted shipments to and from the U.S. More than 3,000 CP Rail condu...
Mar 20, 2022 Marty Bernard
'House that Madigan Built' covers speaker's peak to plummet
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois history is not light on political heavyweights. But Michael Madigan's longevity as speaker of the state House and chairman of the Democratic Party made an outsized im...
Mar 20, 2022
