Category Archives: Local News
Centralia High School looks towards "normal" school year next year
Centralia High School will start school on August 17 and end on May 27 for the 2021-22 school year, according to a schedule approved last night at the monthly meeting of the CHS Board of Education. Su...
Mar 26, 2021
Kaskaskia College moves to more face to face courses for summer and fall
Kaskaskia College President George Evans says “it’s time” and the college will move back to more face to face courses for the summer and fall semester. Evans says the change is possi...
Mar 26, 2021 Kaskaskia College President George Evans.
Richview woman faces DUI charge following three vehicle crash on US 50 west of Salem
A 41-year-old Richview woman has been arrested for DUI and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident in the aftermath of a three-vehicle crash on US 50 near Westline Road west of Salem late Thursda...
Mar 26, 2021
CENTRAL CITY SCHOOL 2020-2021 SCHOOL YEAR HONOR ROLL THIRD QUARTER
EIGHTH GRADE - HIGH HONORS Tristan Bierman Jayden Cushman Ridge Davis Owen Kuhls Sara Starr EIGHTH GRADE - HONORS Hunter Allen Ezra Arenas Mylee Cameron Arabelle Capes Daven Cook Gavin Jolliff Jonatho...
Mar 26, 2021
Marion County reports 115th COVID-19 related death
The Marion County Health Department is reporting the county’s 115 COVID-19 related death. The male was in his 80s. The health department is reporting 10 new positive COVID-19 cases on Thursday. ...
Mar 25, 2021
One taken to hospital after two pickup trucks collide in Fayette County
State Police say a 22-year-old Brownstown woman was injured when she rear-ended a pickup truck waiting to make a turn off U.S. 40 into a private drive near Fayette County Road 1470. Preliminary invest...
Mar 25, 2021
Salem Police work with Georgia officials on internet sex arrest
Salem Police have arrested a 26-year-old Salem man on a Georgia warrant charging two counts of sexual exploitation of children and obscene internet contact with a child. Jack Weidner was taken into cu...
Mar 25, 2021
City of Centralia to begin work Monday on South Locust and Calumet Street projects
Work is scheduled to start Monday on the South Locust and Calumet Street improvement project in Centralia The Public Works Department reports construction activities will include milling and asphalt s...
Mar 25, 2021
Centralia officials release details on boat licenses and boat limitations on Raccoon and Centralia Lakes
The City of Centralia has announced boat licenses required for Raccoon Lake and Lake Centralia are now on sale for the coming summer season. City officials are reminding fisherman and boaters to obtai...
Mar 25, 2021
Centralia teen injured in Route 161 Extension crash
A 19-year-old Centralia woman was airlifted by a medical ambulance to a St. Louis hospital following a one-car crash late Thursday morning on the Illinois Route 161 Extension west of Buchannan Road in...
Mar 25, 2021
