Category Archives: Local News

The 2024 fair Cedarhurst Art and Craft Fair is scheduled for September 6, 7, and 8 in Mt. Vernon. The Craft Fair organizing committees are working to offer many of the traditional fair components such...

The Salem Fire Protection District will remember 9-11 with a Memorial Walk, Memorial Service and afternoon activities in Bryan Memorial Park on Saturday. Firefighter Sarah Dice is helping to coordinat...

Antique Power Days is underway at the Marion County Fairgrounds. Activities began Thursday with a large consignment auction involving three auctioneer trucks and maybe a record number of consigned ite...

The Salem Super Cruise returns to Bryan Memorial Park in Salem on Saturday. Organizer Ken Carpenter is inviting everyone out to see what he anticipates will be a large display of cars, trucks and moto...

The Salem Police Department is investigating a burglary at the Salem American Legion. Salem Police say they discovered the burglary when receiving a burglar alarm at 7:47 Thursday morning. Salem Polic...

A 54-year-old Centralia woman has now been charged in Jefferson County Court with two counts of murder in connection with a car-pedestrian accident in the Dix Dollar General Parking Lot. According to ...

Conagra has been issued a $1.5 -million dollar building permit by the City of Centralia to add a steel framed building platform to support a modular engine room for an ammonia refrigeration system. Ce...

Marion County Sheriff Kevin Cripps says a rural Salem man has lost over $40,000 to an elaborate fraud scan that included a letter of assurance of a $3 -million prize reportedly signed by the Director ...

A 31-year-old Centralia man has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison after pleading guilty in Marion County Court on Wednesday to four counts of failure to register as a sex offender. Th...

Three people were taken to the Marion County Jail on Wednesday. 49-year-old Shannon Demain of Maplewood Avenue in Salem was arrested on a violation of an order of protection. 31-year-old Nathan Hale o...