Category Archives: Local News
Salem Grade School Board keeps masking requirement in place
Story and photo by Bruce Kropp The Salem Grade School Board heard from about a dozen parents at Thursday night's meeting that the masking mandate to be lifted. However, the board took no vote to make ...
Aug 20, 2021 Parent Lane Whisenant expresses his frustration with the Salem Grade School Board in not acting to remove the mandatory masking of students at Thursday night's meeting.
Patoka School Board to wait until next week to decide if they will come back into compliance with state's masking mandate
The Patoka School Board did not reach a decision on Thursday whether to bring the school into compliance with the mask mandate enacted by Governor J.B. Pritzker earlier this month. The board heard pub...
Aug 20, 2021
Over 1,000 jobs to be featured at Centralia Regional Career Expo Friday and Saturday
More than two dozen employers with more than a thousand open jobs will be in attendance at the Centralia Regional Career Expo on Friday and Saturday. The event will also feature information on various...
Aug 20, 2021
Marion County reports 155 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday-Thursday
The Marion County Health Department reports 155 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday and Thursday. There were no additional deaths. The department lists 127 of the cases as community spread and 28 as a ...
Aug 19, 2021
SSM Health re-implements visitation restrictions effective Monday
SSM Health in Illinois is once again suspending visits throughout its care sites including Good Samaritan and St. Mary's Hospitals due to an increase in the spread of COVID-19 throughout the community...
Aug 19, 2021
Patoka man escapes serious injury when tractor overturns
Patoka Fire Chief Blake Hyde says a rural Patoka man escaped serious injury when the tractor he was operating slowly turned over while stopped on the side of a field waterway. Hyde says Gary Keister o...
Aug 19, 2021 Evan Delshaw / CC
Police Beat for Thursday, August 19th, 2021
Two people were brought to the Marion County Jail on Wednesday on outstanding warrants. 26-year-old Mikayla Rowcliff of DeWolfe Street in Odin is being held in lieu of $15,000 bond on an outstanding M...
Aug 19, 2021
Salem Police arrest two for aggravated battery where one is hit by a car
Salem Police say both men involved in an altercation where one was struck by a car have been arrested for aggravated battery. Police say the series of incidents began on North Hotze Road north of the ...
Aug 19, 2021
Some rural bankers in Illinois and other states worried drought will threaten operations
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A new monthly survey of bankers in rural parts of Illinois and nine other Plains and Western states suggests continued economic growth in the region, but some say worsening drought ...
Aug 19, 2021 Mike Cohen / CC
BCMW Community Services announces the 2022 LIHEAP and PIPP ENERGY Assistance Programs starting September 1st
BCMW, as administrator of the Home Energy Assistance Program in Bond, Clinton, Marion, and Washington Counties, is pleased to announce that funds are available to assist income-eligible households wit...
Aug 19, 2021 Grant Source / CC
