Category Archives: Local News
ICC wants lower electric and gas rates for low income
An Illinois Commerce Commission Staff Report is recommending that low-income residents in Illinois receive discount rates for electric and natural gas. The recommendation comes from a study conducted ...
Dec 26, 2022 Tonyglen14 / CC
Bill proposed to add pawnbrokers to 36-percent interest rate cap
Legislation capping pawnbroker interest rates may come up when lawmakers return to Springfield in early January. Senator Jacqueline Collins of Chicago says pawn shops are charging customers excessive ...
Dec 26, 2022 Mastermelt Group / CC
Keep Salem Beautiful Recycling Trailer not available until Wednesday afternoon
The Keep Salem Beautiful Recycling Trailer has been removed from the 200 block of North Broadway until it can be emptied on Wednesday morning. You are asked to hold recyclables until the trailer is ba...
Dec 26, 2022 Keep Salem Beautiful recycling trailer.
Most government offices closed today for 'official' Christmas holiday
Most government offices are closed for the Christmas Holiday Monday because the actual holiday fell on Sunday. Area courthouses, driver's license facilities, and Salem and Centralia City Halls are amo...
Dec 26, 2022
Centralia home heavily damaged in Christmas morning fire
A Centralia home was heavily damaged by fire early Christmas morning. The occupants of the Jeffrey King home at 540 North Beech discovered what may have started as a flu fire just before midnight Satu...
Dec 25, 2022
Search for missing 90-year-old Salem woman ends quickly
Salem Police, Salem Fire, and United Medical Response were all summoned to a home in the 900 block of North Lincoln Saturday night after a 90-year-old woman with dementia disappeared. As searchers wer...
Dec 25, 2022
Police beat for Sunday, December 25th, 2022
Centralia Police arrested a 37-year-old Centralia woman on Saturday for an outstanding Marion County felony failure to appear warrant on a pending charge of aggravated battery to a person over 60. Nic...
Dec 25, 2022
Marion County rises to medium transmission level for COVID-19
While the number of new cases were down, hospitalizations were up putting Marion County into the medium category for COVID-19 transmission. The weekly CDC Tracker reported 52 new or probable cases in ...
Dec 24, 2022
State officials worry about large number of flu and COVID cases going into the Christmas holidays
COVID-19 cases continue to increase statewide, with 88 of the 102 counties now at an increased risk of transmission. That's up from 86 counties last week, although fewer counties are considered at hig...
Dec 24, 2022 Erica Firment / CC
Rural Dix home destroyed by fire
A rural Dix home was destroyed by fire Friday afternoon. The home was fully involved in flames and was already starting to structurally collapse when firemen arrived at the scene on Snap Dragon Lane e...
Dec 24, 2022
