Category Archives: Local News
Car on blocks destroyed by early Thursday morning fire
A car on blocks in an alley next to an abandoned home was found fully engulfed in fire early Thursday morning. Centralia City Firemen say they were able to keep the fire in the 200 block of South Cher...
Jul 10, 2025 Centralia City Fire Truck. File Photo.
Tri County Electric Cooperative to Hold Annual Meeting on Saturday
Tri-County Electric Cooperative will hold its annual meeting on Saturday at the Cooperatives headquarters at 39-06 Broadway in Mt. Vernon. An update will be given on the cooperative's operations and f...
Jul 10, 2025 Tri County Electric Cooperative headquarters in Mt. Vernon. (Photo by Bruce Kropp)
Marion County State's Attorney to do more research on who can receive quarter-cent public safety sales tax money
Marion County State's Attorney Tim Hudspeth says he will do additional research on who can receive proceeds from the county's quarter-cent public safety sales tax. Board member Cody Rose brought up re...
Jul 10, 2025 Marion County State's Attorney Tim Hudspeth.
Police Beat for Thursday, July 10th, 2025
Two people were taken to the Marion County Jail on Wednesday on outstanding warrants. 54-year-old Sean Meredith of Centralia was arrested by Centralia Police on a no bond failure to appear felony warr...
Jul 10, 2025
"United We Give" Program to Marion County: First Distribution Set for Centralia
United Way of South Central has expanded the "United We Give" program into Marion County. Thanks to the generosity of Walgreens Distribution Center (DC), this initiative will launch its first-ever sor...
Jul 10, 2025
State Treasurer Michael Frerichs Will Return a Record Number of Checks to Illinoisans
This summer will bring $45 million in cash to a record-breaking 600,000 people who will receive money they didn't even know they had from the state's missing money program, and the only thing they mus...
Jul 09, 2025 dicogm / Depositphotos.com
Sterling Avenue presented quarterly KSB Beautiful Business Award
The latest recipient of the Keep Salem Beautiful Quarterly Beautiful Business Award is Sterling Avenue in the 300 block of West Main downtown. The business owned by Paul and Lynn Reim recently moved i...
Jul 09, 2025 Sterling Avenue is presented with the Beautiful Business Award. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Centralia City School district hires new coaches
At its regular meeting on Tuesday, the Centralia City Schools Board of Education accepted the resignation of Jordan P.E. teacher Lucas Krutsinger and hired three individuals to fill his roles as teach...
Jul 09, 2025
$15 million solar farm development planned north of Centralia
A plan for a $15 million nearly five-megawatt solar farm was presented to the Marion County Board's Community Relations Committee Tuesday night. It will be located off Community Beach Road one mile ea...
Jul 09, 2025 Pete Yannokokis of Solar Generation presents solar farm plans to the Marion County Board Community Relations Committee. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Only minor injury reported in pickup-motorcycle crash in Salem
Salem Police say a motorcyclist sustained a minor injury Tuesday afternoon when a pickup truck struck his cycle in the 800 block of South College Street. Police report 58-year-old John Oliver of Westm...
Jul 09, 2025
