Category Archives: Local News
Centralia City Council sets priority projects in work session
The Centralia City Council has set its priority projects for the coming year during a three hour work session where all needs and concerns were placed on the table. The 13 areas of concern making the ...
Oct 22, 2021 Place the dots. Members of the Centralia City Council put dots on the items they think are the top priority to address in the coming year. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Mt. Vernon man receives 60 year prison term for 2020 shooting of two men
A 45-year-old Mt. Vernon man received a 60-year prison term in Jefferson County Court on Thursday for two counts of armed violence and a single count of unlawful use of a weapon. Alvin Smallwood was e...
Oct 22, 2021
Kinmundy Log Cabin Village turns haunted for Halloween Season
The Kinmundy Log Cabin Village becomes the Haunted Trail for the Halloween season. The trail will be open this Friday and Saturday as well as next Friday and Saturday from dark to eleven pm. The cost ...
Oct 22, 2021 Brenda Clarke / CC
Family Fun Day planned in Centralia Saturday to Break the Silence of Addiction
The C-town Naranon Families and Liberty Alliance are presenting a Family Fun Day on Saturday in Foundation Park. The goal is to break the silence of addiction. There will be guest speakers from the Ce...
Oct 22, 2021 sun_ver
Strong economic growth continues in rural parts of Illinois and nine other states
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A new monthly survey of bankers in rural parts of rural Illinois and nine other Plains and Western states suggests strong economic growth continues in the region. The overall econom...
Oct 22, 2021
About 440 Advocate Aurora Health workers leave over mandate
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (AP) - About 440 employees at Advocate Aurora Health have either left the health care company or have been fired for not complying with a vaccine mandate. The hospital group said T...
Oct 22, 2021 Yuya Tamai / CC
Illinois Supreme Court tosses county tax on guns, ammunition
CHICAGO (AP) - The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled Cook County's taxes on guns and ammunition violate the state constitution. In a decision Thursday, the court says the taxes "directly burden a law-a...
Oct 22, 2021 Illinois Supreme Court.
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Centralia BPW names Woman and Boss of the Year
The Centralia Business and Professional Women's Club has named its Woman and Boss of the Year. The Woman of the Year is the Vice President of Instructional Services at Kaskaskia College Julie Obermark...
Oct 21, 2021 Centralia BPW Woman of the Year Vice President of Instructional Services at Kaskaskia College Julie Obermark (left) was named Woman of the Year and Marion County Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow (right) was named Boss of the Year. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Centralia woman named Illinois Outstanding Working Women of the Year
A Centralia woman is one of two Illinois Outstanding Working Women of the Year. Traci Macz who co-owns the Macz Funeral Homes in Centralia, Sandoval, Patoka, and Odin with her husband was honored for ...
Oct 21, 2021 Illinois Working Woman of the Year Traci Macz (left) with State BPW President Amanda Burke of Mt. Vernon. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Two formally charged with rural Iuka burglary
Two people were formally charged in Marion County Court on Wednesday with a burglary to a farmstead in the 7900 block of Brubaker Road in rural Iuka. 20-year-old Katlin Hollinshead of East 5th in Kinm...
Oct 21, 2021
