Category Archives: Local News
Salem Planning Commission rejects commercial zoning district on Airport Road
The Salem Planning Commission was unanimous in their opposition to converting a five-acre tract of land along Airport Road north of Dahlins Drive from a residential to a business district. The proposa...
Sep 15, 2021
Odin School Board gets no opposition to issuing $1.35-million in alternative revenue bonds
There was no one in opposition at the Odin School Board meeting Monday night to the issuance of $1.35-million dollars in general obligation bonds for building improvements and possible additions. Supe...
Sep 14, 2021 Odin School Superintendent Kim Briggs.
Odin School Board decides to co-op with Patoka for basketball; starts e-sports
The Odin School Board has taken another vote and this time has agreed to co-op high school boys basketball and cheerleading with Patoka. The issue had failed on a 3-3 tie vote earlier. None of the boa...
Sep 14, 2021
Six people injured in two-vehicle crash east of Salem Monday night
State Police says a 17-year-old female juvenile from Flora crossed the centerline while traveling westbound on US 50 east of Salem and crashed into an SUV drive by a Centralia woman. Both the 17-year-...
Sep 14, 2021
Police Beat for Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
Centralia Police arrested a 52-year-old Kinmundy woman for possession of methamphetamine on Monday. Lacresha Sullens of Omega Road was taken into custody after police investigated a suspicious person ...
Sep 14, 2021
Clean energy legislation that will hike electric costs now awaits Governor's signature
The Illinois Senate is voting in favor of new clean energy legislation that Governor Pritzker is expected to sign. The measure aims for the state to be using 100 percent clean energy by 2050, requires...
Sep 14, 2021 Rennett Stowe / CC
Fire damages vacant home in Centralia
All available Centralia City Firemen were called to a fire in a vacant house at 215 West Second Street late Monday night. Fire officials say the home had been vacant since a fire a few years ago. Flam...
Sep 14, 2021
Centralia City Council approves program for BCMW to provide assistance in paying water and sewer bills
The Centralia City Council has approved an agreement with the social service agency BCMW to help those struggling to pay their city water and sewer bills. City Manager Scott Randall doesn't see any do...
Sep 14, 2021 Lydia Kangas of Centralia is presented a new laptop computer at Monday night's Centralia City Council meeting by Assistant City Manager Derek Sherman (center) and Greg Sutton of Castle Ridge. She was among those who pre-registered and then attended the recent Centralia Job Expo. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Three face new burglary charges in Marion County Court
Three people arrested over the weekend were formally charged in Marion County Court with burglary offenses. 34-year-old Alexander Brown-Bergman of Maplewood Avenue in Salem and 24-year-old Timothy Sul...
Sep 14, 2021 Those charged with burglary in Marion County Court on Monday (left to right) Timothy Sullens, Alexander Brown-Bergman and Trevor Langford.
Centralia man charged with failure to register as sex offender
A 22-year-old Centralia man has been charged in Marion County Court with failure to register as a sex offender. Dawson Coughlin of North Hickory faces an extended term sentence if found guilty includi...
Sep 14, 2021
