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Students at Centralia High School are ready to put on a show as the Showcase on Stage opens this year's winter play, A Christmas Story, Thursday night. Director Jami Jacobs says this show is a unique ...
Austin Williams Nov 21, 2024 The cast of Centralia High School's A Christmas Story takes a bow after the preview performance Wednesday night. Photo by Pat Hodges.
A 16-year-old Mt. Vernon juvenile has been sentenced to 28 years in prison in connection with the January shooting death of a 16-year-old Mt. Vernon girl. Decoleis Dunn-Harris had earlier pleaded guil...
Austin Williams Nov 20, 2024 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Centralia City Firemen report minor damage in a mobile home fire at 808 East 15th in Centralia Tuesday night. Fire officials say the occupant Ryan Scott ran to a neighbor's home for help after ashes f...
Austin Williams Nov 20, 2024
Three fire departments responded to a report of what appeared to be a house fire from a passing motorist on I-57 near Dix on Monday night. Jefferson Fire initially went to the scene with Mt. Vernon Ci...
Austin Williams Nov 20, 2024
One person was injured in a two vehicle crash late Tuesday afternoon on Selmaville Road near the Red Stripe Road intersection southwest of Salem. The Marion County Sheriff's Department reports an SUV ...
Austin Williams Nov 20, 2024
A 58-year-old Ashley man has entered an Alford Plea in Jefferson County Court to nine counts of child pornography. With an Alford plea, Robert Paul of North Riddle Lane admitted prosecutors had enough...
Austin Williams Nov 20, 2024 Robert Paul
State Representative Charlie Meier is chief co-sponsor of a bill designed to give the Project Bread meal sites and Meals on Wheels programs in Salem and Centralia a state source of funding. The House ...
Austin Williams Nov 20, 2024 State Representative Charlie Meier.
Salem Community High School has named Assistant Principal Clint Wolfe as the new principal to replace John Boles who retires at the end of this school year. The school board approved an administrative...
Bruce Kropp Nov 19, 2024 New SCHS Principal Clint Wolfe.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the US Army Corps of Engineers has started the process of designing the cleanup for the Sandoval Zinc Company Superfund Site. The estimat...
Austin Williams Nov 19, 2024 EPA official Michael Berkoff addresses the audience at Sandoval City Hall.
Salem Police and the Illinois State Fire Marshals office is investigating a suspicious fire that heavily damaged a mobile home during the noon hour Monday at 19 Starlight Mobile Home Park. Salem Fire ...
Austin Williams Nov 19, 2024 Salem Fire Protection responds to the mobile home fire.