Category Archives: Local News
Salem City Council to consider security camera, gas line, and street improvement projects
The Salem City Council Monday night will consider another proposal for security cameras in Bryan Memorial Park as well as street and gas line replacement projects. The new proposal from Security Alarm...
Jun 05, 2023
Long wait is over as Dollar General opens in Kinmundy
The long wait is over as Dollar General officially opened its doors in Kinmundy on Friday. Mayor Angie Diss says the 10,000-square-foot store went up quickly with construction starting in March but wa...
Jun 04, 2023 The new Dollar General Store on Route 37 North in Kinmundy. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Military burial honors given 80 years after death of Odin man in World War II
Photos by Sgt. Trenton Fouche After 80 years, the body of World War II Army Air Corps Technical Sergeant Harold Kretzer of Odin was returned home, and a burial with military honors was held on Saturda...
Jun 04, 2023 The headstone for World War II Army Air Corps Technical Sergeant Harold Kretzer of Odin, Illinois, at Camp Butler National Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, on June 2.
Police Beat for Sunday, June 4th, 2023
The Marion County Sheriff's Department has arrested 55-year-old Mary Travis of the 3500 block of Tonti Road in rural Salem for criminal damage to property after she allegedly set a neighbor's trampoli...
Jun 04, 2023
May weather warmer and dryer than normal; parts of South Central Illinois now abnormally dry
May weather was warmer and drier than normal in Illinois as parts of South Central Illinois fall into the abnormally dry category. In Salem, the water treatment plant reported 3.94 inches of rain, wit...
Jun 04, 2023
7 shot, 1 fatally, in Chicago when gunfire erupts amid remembrance for man killed in car crash
CHICAGO (AP) - A 25-year-old woman was fatally shot and six other people were wounded early Sunday when gunfire erupted in Chicago during a remembrance for a man who died in a car crash, police said. ...
Jun 04, 2023 Arvell Dorsey Jr. / CC
Kaskaskia College Receives $258-thousand Bridge and Transitions Grant
Kaskaskia College has been awarded a $258-thousand-dollar Innovative Bridge and Transitions grant from the Illinois Community College Board to provide career exploration and planning opportunities to ...
Jun 03, 2023 One of several robots used for training students at the Kaskaskia College Crisp Center. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Marion County Sheriff's Department releases more details on two wrecks last weekend
Marion County Sheriff's Deputies say a 68-year-old Odin man was taken to Salem Township Hospital for treatment of injuries sustained in a single-vehicle crash that apparently occurred last Sunday morn...
Jun 03, 2023
Governor says "Invest in Kids' program could be revived
Governor JB Pritzker says the 'Invest in Kids' program could be revived but might look a little different. Lawmakers did not vote to extend the private school scholarship program for low-income childr...
Jun 03, 2023 Gov. JB Pritzker (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Bill on Governor's desk would require health insurers to cover hearing aids
Legislation awaiting the Governor's signature requires health insurers to cover hearing aids. Currently in Illinois, insurance companies only have to cover hearing aids for patients under 18. This bil...
Jun 03, 2023 Joe Haupt / CC