Category Archives: Local News
Pre-K student extricated from rocking chair at Apostolic Church Day Care
The Salem Fire Protection District had to extricate a four-year-old girl from a rocking chair at the Salem Apostolic Church on Airport Road just before noon on Friday. Firemen say the girl got her leg...
Sep 07, 2024
Police Beat for Saturday, September 7th, 2024
Two people are being held in the Marion County Jail following Friday arrests. 30-year-old Anthony Devore, who told authorities he was homeless, was arrested by Salem Police for violation of pretrial c...
Sep 07, 2024
Cedarhurst Art & Craft Fair celebrates 48 years
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...
Sep 06, 2024 2022 Cedarhurst Craft Fair
Salem Fire Protection District to remember 9-11 in Saturday ceremony
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...
Sep 06, 2024
Antique Power Days Underway at Marion County Fairgrounds
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...
Sep 06, 2024 File: Tractors on display at Antique Power Days.
Super Cruise set for Bryan Memorial Park on Saturday
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...
Sep 06, 2024 Some of the car show entries from the 2023 Super Cruise. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Salem Police investigating burglary to American Legion
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...
Sep 06, 2024
Centralia woman now charged with murder of husband in Dix Dollar General parking lot
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 ...
Sep 06, 2024
Conagra building $1.5-million support facility at Centralia plant
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...
Sep 05, 2024 Conagra building in Centralia. Photo by Pat Hodges.
Marion County Sheriff says rural Salem man lost over $40,000 in fraud scam
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 ...
Sep 05, 2024
