Category Archives: Local News

The Marion County Board Tuesday night approved moving two voting precincts effective with the primary next March. Clerk Steve Fox made the request because of issues at both voting places. Both Salem P...

SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital in Centralia has added an infant resuscitator to its emergency department. The device designed to deliver controlled, consistent, and precise respiratory support for new...

Both occupants of a car that ran off I-57 at mile marker 132 north of Kinmundy Thursday morning were airlifted from the scene by Air Evac to St. Louis Hospitals. The two were both able to crawl out of...

The Patoka Fall Festival will once again highlight the Labor Day Weekend. The Patoka Park opens at five Friday night with the carnival and food vendors. Friday activities include Bingo and music from ...

Trash pickup will be delayed in both Salem and Centralia next week, with no pickup on Monday due to the Labor Day Holiday. In Salem, pickup will be one day late all week. Yard waste pickup will remain...

Three people were taken to the Marion County Jail on no bond failure to appear warrants on Wednesday. 37-year-old Mathew Stebbins of Clinmar Place in Centralia was arrested by Centralia Police on a Ma...

The Marion County Board has given conditional approval to two community solar farms under the county's new solar and wind ordinance. They are Dimension Energy who is proposing a facility on US 50 a mi...

The Marion County Board has agreed to move forward on the long-delayed improvements to the county's parking lot in the 200 block of North Broadway in downtown Salem. The county never finalized paperwo...

The Marion County Board has approved a study to determine why the county ranks 98th out of the 102 counties for disparity between property tax assessments and the actual sales value of property. Prope...

A 40-year-old Salem man has been sentenced to three years in prison after his drug court probation was revoked. Joshua Gribler of South Washington had pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of under fi...