Category Archives: Local News
Traffic stops result in two being arrested for possession of meth with intent to deliver
Traffic stops in Salem and Centralia have resulted in felony drug arrests for possession and possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine. Salem Police arrested 21-year-old Donald Fairchild of We...
Jan 26, 2021
Sandoval Fire Department names Firefighter and EMT of the Year
The Sandoval Fire Protection District has named Matt Horn as Firefighter of the Year and Gail Gambill the Tom Nicolay EMT of the Year. The announcement came at the department’s annual awards din...
Jan 26, 2021 File photo.
Salem High students going back to class 5 days a week
Salem Community High School students will be going back to in-person classes five days a week starting next Monday. The high school board concurred with the school’s transition team in moving aw...
Jan 26, 2021
Franklin Park 2nd Quarter Honor Roll
4th Grade High Honors: Zane Applegate Noah Beasley Issac Beatty Kyris Cantrell Kara Crain Magen Crenshaw Kenlee Davis Presley Eddy Holden Gambill Morgan Holland Lily Holsapple Rebekah Howe Alaigha Hug...
Jan 26, 2021
Eight new cases of COVID-19 variant reported in Illinois
The Illinois Department of Public Health and the Chicago Department of Public Health has announced eight additional Illinois cases of the coronavirus disease variant first identified in the United Kin...
Jan 25, 2021
Brothers accuse prominent Chicago priest of sexual abuse
CHICAGO (AP) - Two brothers in their 60s have described what they say was years of sexual abuse by a firebrand priest who gained fame speaking out on national politics and for taking on drug dealers i...
Jan 25, 2021
Centralia Grade School looks towards Schiller School addition
The Centralia Grade School Board’s building committee is looking at a $1 to $1.5-million addition of a multipurpose room to the northeast side of Schiller Grade School. Superintendent Craig Clar...
Jan 25, 2021 Schiller Elementry School
Birds nest blamed for setting off flue fire at home east of Salem
The Salem Fire Protection District reports a bird’s nest built in a flue set off a fire in the chimney of a home east of Salem Sunday night. Firemen were called to the Rusty Courson home at 4923...
Jan 25, 2021
Centralia Fire Department deals with 5th suspicious fire in two weeks
Centralia City Firemen work to battle a fire at 701 Johnson that destroyed a 30 by 50 metal garage building with two cars inside. Photo by Tim Ferguson. The Centralia City Fire Department reports a se...
Jan 25, 2021
Central City 2nd Grade Teacher is WJBD-WSIQ Teacher of the Week
Central City 2nd grade teacher Cassie Stover is this week’s WJBD-WSIQ Teacher of the Week. Stover is in her 6th year as a teacher at Central City after starting as an aide in the Centralia City ...
Jan 25, 2021
