Category Archives: Local News
Salem looking toward 12-year extension of downtown TIF, SCHS Superintendent doesn't like process
The City of Salem is looking at a 12-year extension of the downtown tax increment financing district. Economic Development Director Leah Dellicarpini says she and new City Manager Lisa Peck agreed tha...
Jun 23, 2025
Illinois US Congress Delegation split on party lines over bombing of Iran
Illinois' US Congressional Delegation is split on party lines to President Donald Trump's decision to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities over the weekend. Republican Congressman Mike Bost says he trusts t...
Jun 23, 2025 nirchik / Depositphotos.com
Three hurt in Sunday crash on North Poplar in Centralia
Three people were injured in a one car wreck in the 600 block of North Poplar in Centralia Sunday afternoon. Centralia Police say 33-year-old Tyler Parrish of Hickory Meadows in Centralia swerved when...
Jun 23, 2025
Centralia City Council to discuss TIF agreement for new Byrd Watson Drug Store
The Centralia City Council Monday night will be asked to approve a development agreement for the new Byrd Watson Drug Store at 790 West McCord Street. City Manager Galen Mahle says under the proposal,...
Jun 23, 2025
Police Beat for Monday, June 23rd, 2025
A 28-year-old Sandoval man has been arrested by Marion County Sheriff's Deputies for domestic battery. Dustin McClaren of Old U.S. 51 was taken to the Marion County Jail to await a final decision on c...
Jun 23, 2025
Local Governments to receive money from Bipartisan Coalition Signing of $7.4 Billion Purdue Settlement over Opioid Crisis 06-23-25
Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced that 55 attorneys general, representing all eligible states and U.S territories, agreed to sign on to a $7.4 settlement with Purdue Pharma (Purdue) and its owner...
Jun 23, 2025 K-State Research and Extension / CC
Centralia City Manager talks background and recreation at Centralia Chamber Monthly Meeting
The Greater Centralia Chamber of Commerce's chamber member lunch on Wednesday featured "Meet the City Manager," Galen Mahle. In January of 2025, Mahle took over the position of City Manager in Central...
Jun 21, 2025 Centralia City Manager Galen Mahle talks to the Greater Centralia Chamber of Commerce at its Monthly Membership meeting. Photo by Jeannell Charman.
Police Beat for Saturday, June 21st, 2025
A search that lasted about an hour Friday night turned up an elderly Centralia woman believed to be missing from her home. The woman was eventually found sitting in a car in the garage of her home by ...
Jun 21, 2025
Judge rules Trump administration can't require states to help on immigration to get transport money
By MICHAEL CASEY and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from withholding billions of dollars in transportation funds from states ...
Jun 21, 2025 wabeno / Depositphotos.com
Heat dome will blanket much of the US, with worrisome temperatures in Midwest and Illinois
By ISABELLA O'MALLEY Associated Press Summer will make a dramatic entrance in the U.S. this week with a heat dome that will bring stifling temperatures and uncomfortable humidity to millions. The heat...
Jun 21, 2025 FILE - Wyatt Seymore pours the last drops of liquid from a water bottle into his mouth as he takes a break from unloading a stiflingly hot trailer of fireworks outside Powder Monkey Fireworks ahead of the opening of the stand, June 17, 2024, in Weldon Spring, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
