Category Archives: Local News

Bid award for Gragg Street road construction project
Centralia Public Works Director Jeff Schwartz announced at the Centralia City Council meeting Monday night that the Illinois Department of Transportation has awarded a bid on reconstruction of Gragg S...
WJBD Staff Feb 14, 2023

Police Beat for Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
Salem Police arrested two persons on warrants when responding to different complaints about unwanted persons. 30-year-old Blossom Plumb of Gierten Road in Centralia was arrested on a Marion County war...
Bruce Kropp Feb 14, 2023

Centralia man arrested after allegedly cashing multiple stolen checks
Centralia Police have arrested a 70-year-old Centralia man for alleged forgery of multiple checks. Loran Hill of Patriot Road is accused of taking a checkbook from another person and cashing at least ...
Bruce Kropp Feb 14, 2023

St. Joseph's Hospital in Breese and other HSHS hospitals lifting COVID visitor restrictions
Visitor restrictions put in place at HSHS Illinois hospitals including St. Joseph's Hospital in Breese have been updated due to a decline in COVID-19 numbers. The guidelines will return to pre-pandemi...
WJBD Staff Feb 14, 2023 HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital in Breese.

Tickets still available for Marion County Soil and Water District's annual meeting
Tickets are still available for the Marion County Soil and Water Conservation District's 78th Annual Meeting and Dinner which will be held this Thursday, February 16th, at the Marion County Fairground...
WJBD Staff Feb 14, 2023

Centralia sets spring leaf vacuuming schedule
The City of Centralia has announced the Spring Leaf Vacuuming schedule. Leaves will be picked up for four weeks on your regular trash collection day from Monday, March 13th through Friday, April 7th. ...
WJBD Staff Feb 14, 2023

Valentine's Day brings warning of internet romance scams
Although Valentine's Day only comes once a year, there are scammers in cyberspace that are using the desire for a relationship to scam people 365 days a year. The Better Business Bureau warns that rom...
WJBD Staff Feb 14, 2023 julie / CC

Four stuck for more than an hour when power pole and lines fall onto their vehicle
Centralia Police say four occupants of a car were stuck in the vehicle for more than an hour after hitting a power pole and knocking the pole and power lines onto the car. The incident occurred in the...
Bruce Kropp Feb 13, 2023

Rotary Club helps expand and organize SCHS Clothes Closet
When Allison West started as Salem Community High School's first social worker a year ago, she found the Clothes Closet in the basement a pile of unorganized clothes and other items. But that has chan...
WJBD Staff Feb 13, 2023 Salem Rotary Club members join Salem High School Social Worker Allison West in front of the SCHS Clothes Closet. Left to right: Rotary members Mark Larimore Jim Stiehl, Sue Davis, Greg Jones, social worker Allison West, and Rotary member Tom Champion. Photo by Bruce Kropp.

Salem Chamber celebrates new business in Orchard Shopping Center
The Greater Salem Chamber of Commerce welcomed a new business to the Orchard Shopping Center on Route 37 South. After operating as a food truck since 2020, the owner of the Hole Dozen Charlee Kissner ...
WJBD Staff Feb 13, 2023 Ribbon Cutting for the Hole Dozen's brick and mortar location in the Orchard Shopping Center. Photo by Bruce Kropp.