Category Archives: Local News
Custodian/Bus Driver at Opdyke Belle Rive School District victim of pond drowning
Jefferson County Coroner Roger Hayse says a 66-year-old rural Bonnie man who worked as a custodian and bus driver at the Opdyke-Belle Rive grade school was the victim of a Sunday drowning in a remote ...
Dec 22, 2021 Garden State Hiker / CC
Sandoval Police seeking grant to put cameras at four main entrances to town
Sandoval Police Chief Joe Lyons is seeking a grant that would pay for 75-percent of the cost of locating surveillance cameras at the four major entrances to town. Lyons says the cameras would capture ...
Dec 22, 2021 Gavin Stewart / CC
Centralia Police make arrest on passing of counterfeit bill
Centralia Police have made an arrest in connection with the passing of a counterfeit $20 bill. Police Chief Greg Dodson says Kellie Whitehouse of South Elm in Centralia allegedly passed the bill at th...
Dec 22, 2021 Ivan Radic / CC
Chicago to require proof of vaccination at restaurants, bars
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the nation's third-largest city will require proof of coronavirus vaccination at restaurants, bars, gyms, and other indoor venues. Lightfoot said Tuesd...
Dec 22, 2021
SSM Health names new Chief Medical Officer for Southern Illinois Region
SSM Health in Illinois has announced the addition of Dr. John Kohler to their executive leadership team. He will replace Dr. Corey Black as Regional Chief Medical Officer for the Southern Illinois Reg...
Dec 22, 2021
Kaskaskia College watching COVID numbers to determine how 2nd semester will begin
Kaskaskia College President George Evans is carefully watching COVID-19 numbers to determine how the school will begin the second semester. Evans reports there has been an uptick with the close of the...
Dec 22, 2021 File: Kaskaskia College Clock Tower and campus.
Drug bust in Bluford leads to four arrests
Four people were arrested in a drug bust conducted by the Mt. Vernon Police-Jefferson Conty High Risk Team and Joint Narcotics Unit at a Bluford home on Monday. 45-year-old Chad Pepple of Bluford was ...
Dec 22, 2021
Marion County Health Department receives $165,800 grant to continue mass vaccination clinics
Marion County Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow says the health department has received a $165,800 grant to continue providing COVID-19 mass vaccination clinics. Mallow told the health bo...
Dec 22, 2021 Marion County Health Department Administrator Mellissa Mallow at earlier COVID-19 vaccination clinic.
Rural Centralia man ticketed following single vehicle crash
Marion County Sheriff's Deputies arrested a 60-year-old rural Centralia man after his vehicle crashed into a tree after missing the end of Baldridge Lane at Mills Cart Road at the rear entrance to the...
Dec 22, 2021
Salem City Council gives green light to cargo storage containers
The Salem City Council unanimously agreed to allow cargo storage containers in the Industrial Zone as well as most business zones provided they meet other zoning requirements. Under the proposal that ...
Dec 21, 2021
