Category Archives: Local News

The City of Salem has announced East Lawn Cemetery will be cleaned on Monday, March 22nd. Public Works Director Annette Brushwitz says all grave blankets, flowers and decorations will be removed. If y...

Balloon Fest will be held this August. However, Greater Centralia Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Marcus Holland is uncertain how the event will look due to COVID-19 restrictions. Holland says ...

As other state’s are beginning to lift mask mandates and size control limits, Governor JB Pritzker says they will remain in place in Illinois. He was questioned about continued mitigations when ...

A 20-year-old Kinmundy woman has been arrested by Marion County Sheriff’s Deputies for alleged possession of meth and a controlled substance. Katlin Hollinsead of East 5th was the subject of a t...

Bond has been set at $,9000 for a 47-year-old Centralia man formally charged in Marion County Court Wednesday with possession of under five grams of methamphetamine. Justin Brake of East 3rd faces an ...

Clinton County State’s Attorney Douglas Gruenke has been appointed as the 4th Judicial Circuit’s newest Associate Judge. Gruenke says his starting date as a judge has tentatively been set ...

There will be an Easter Egg Hunt for the Centralia area on Easter afternoon, April 4th, but it won’t be traditional. Wamac Mayor Butch Mathis says continued limitations on crowd gatherings becau...

Jefferson Fire Protection District officials report minor damage to a mobile home in rural Texico in a Wednesday afternoon fire. Fire officials say the fire at the Sean Eubanks home on Stratford Lane ...

A 28-year-old Centralia man has been sentenced to four years in prison in Marion County Court after his probation was revoked on a residential burglary conviction. Collin Arnold of South Maple will se...

A 44-year-old Vandalia man who was an assistant preacher at the Pentecostal Church of Patoka has been charged in Fayette County Court with reproducing and disseminating child pornography. Ferrell Maso...