Category Archives: Local News
UcamP wins Keep Salem Beautiful Award
The UcamP campground on Missouri and Mills Cart has won the quarterly Keep Salem Beautiful Business Award for the beauty of their property. Co-owner Becky Phillips says people told her she was crazy w...
Oct 19, 2026
Monster Crawl draws big crowd to downtown Centralia
The 18th Annual Monster Crawl returned to the 300 block of East Broadway in Centralia on Saturday night drawing one of their biggest if not the biggest crowd yet. Co-coordinator Jessiycka Nix Coleman ...
Oct 19, 2026 Crowd at the Monster Crawl. Photo by Pat Hodges.
Illinois medical debt relief program surpasses $1B goal in two years
by Bernarda Malevska, Capitol News Illinois October 15, 2026 Article Summary Two years after its launch, a state medical debt relief program has erased more than $1.4 billion in debt, exceeding the or...
Oct 19, 2026 An example of the envelope mailed to eligible Illinois residents notifying them that their medical debt has been eliminated. (Medill Illinois News Bureau photo by Kaitlin Bender-Thomas)
Seven being inducted to the SCHS Academic Hall of Fame Saturday
Seven will be inducted into the Salem Community High School Academic Hall of Fame this Saturday morning at nine in the school cafeteria as part of the All Class Reunion. The inductees include Frank Br...
Oct 19, 2026
Downed power line leads to Ameren and Tri-County Electric Outages
A major power line just outside the Ameren Texas substation southwest of Salem led to a major power outage early Sunday morning for some Ameren and Tri-County Electric customers in Marion County. The ...
Oct 19, 2026 Boyphare1 / Depositphotos.com
Candidate filing begins for Mayor and City Council in Salem and Centralia
Three candidates have filed petitions to run for Mayor of Centralia to replace the retiring Bryan Kuder. Council member Barri Allen and the President of the Centralia Foundation Dave Agee were both on...
Oct 19, 2026
Salem City Council to consider tax levy and city hall masonry project
The Salem City Council will be asked to pass its annual tax levy at Monday night's meeting. The levy is 3.95-percent higher than the prior year's extension. Since it is below five percent, no truth in...
Oct 19, 2026
Police Beat for Monday, October 19th, 2026
Two people were taken to the Marion County Jail on Sunday on no-bond warrants and were held pending further court action on Monday. 24-year-old Erica Maltman of North Cherry in Centralia and 23-year-o...
Oct 19, 2026
Single-car crash on I-57 sends one to St. Louis Hospital via Air Evac
An early Sunday morning crash on I-57 at mile marker 107 west of Kell has sent the driver to a St. Louis Hospital for treatment. State Police say preliminary information indicates the driver drove int...
Oct 18, 2026 Air Evac Medical Helicopter.
Iuka man injured in crash on Omega Road
A 54-year-old Iuka man was injured when his car ran off the 6100 block of Omega Road near the entrance to Forbes State Park and struck a tree. United Medical Response transported Joseph Grear of North...
Oct 18, 2026
