Category Archives: Local News
Salem Community High School canned food drive collects 24,130.5 cans
The Salem Community High School canned food drive collected 24,130.5 cans. The drive came to an end Monday morning as all the homeroom classes brought in the canned goods they had collected during thi...
Nov 21, 2023 Members of the Salem Community High School Student Council and National Honor Society as they prepare to move 24,130 cans to the Ministerial Alliance Food Pantry. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Salem selects Sunrise Sanitation as new garbage collector
The Salem City Council has selected the low bidder Sunrise Sanitation of Salem as its garbage collector for the next five years starting January first. However, there were concerns including the compa...
Nov 21, 2023
Free Thanksgiving Dinner planned for 19th year at Poplar Place in Centralia
The Poplar Place in Centralia will provide a free Thanksgiving Dinner to anyone who wants to participate on Thanksgiving Day. One of those who founded the program 19 years ago, Mimi Hawkins, expects o...
Nov 21, 2023 The food line at the Thanksgiving Dinner at the Poplar Place in 2022.
Salem Township Hospital Board begins discussing next big improvement project
Salem Township Hospital President Alex Nazarian says pre-design has been completed on the hospital's next big improvement project. Nazarian says once the rural medical clinic can move to the renovated...
Nov 21, 2023 Salem Township Hospital President Alex Nazarian at front entrance to the parking lot on the new parking lot.
More than 30 attend Marion County Fair Queen's S"tea"m Party
More than 30 young girls participated in Marion County Fair Queen Kaitlyn Banning's S"tea"m Party for young girls on Sunday. Banning, a biomedical engineering student at the University of Missouri, he...
Nov 20, 2023 Marion County Fair Queen Kaitlyn Banning performing one of the experiments.
Senator Jason Plummer says new assault weapons law about to create large number of felons
State Senator Jason Plummer told the monthly meeting of the Greater Salem Chamber of Commerce last week that the new assault weapons law is about to create a lot of new felons. Plummer says less than ...
Nov 20, 2023 State Senator Jason Plummer talks about issues including the assault weapons ban to the Salem Chamber of Commerce monthly meeting. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Salem City Council Monday night to consider garbage collection contract and tax levy
The Salem City Council Monday night is expected to make a decision on who will be the city's trash collector starting January 1st. The city received five bids for the service, but decided at the last ...
Nov 20, 2023
State school board weighs increased funding requests ahead of budget season
Advocates continue call to speed up contributions to new state funding formula By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD - Officials at the Illinois State Boa...
Nov 19, 2023
Two Centralia residents arrested in connection with home invasion
Two Centralia residents have been arrested on Saturday in connection with a home invasion. 35-year-old Nathan Page of North Sycamore Street is being held in the Marion County Jail on Class X charges o...
Nov 19, 2023
Mt. Vernon man receives 44-year prison term for foiled escape attempt
A 57-year-old Mt. Vernon man has been sentenced to 44 years in prison in connection with a foiled escape attempt from a sally port of the Jefferson County Courthouse in October 2021. Judge Thomas Tede...
Nov 18, 2023
