Category Archives: Local News
Sign up begins Thursday for LIHEAP at Social Service Agency BCMW
The Social Service Agency BCMW begins taking appointments Thursday from low-income residents who need help paying their natural gas, propane, and electric bills as well as furnace assistance. Unlike i...
Sep 01, 2022 Tonyglen14 / CC
Centralia American Legion debuts first Labor Day Weekend Festival
The Centralia American Legion will hold its first Labor Day Festival this Friday through Monday in Fairview Park. The legion's Wayne Sensel says it will feature a carnival that is bigger than the one ...
Sep 01, 2022
Patoka Fall Festival set for this weekend
The 63rd Annual Patoka Fall Festival is set for this weekend and includes a horse fun show, parade, demo derby, and a carnival among other activities. The carnival and food vendors open at five Friday...
Sep 01, 2022 The winning theme and Mayor's choice float of the 2021 Patoka Fall Festival Parade. Photo by Bruce Krop.
City of Centralia to treat Centralia Lake for algae blooms on Friday
With continued warm air and water temperatures, the City of Centralia will once again be applying a commercial algaecide known as EarthTec at Lake Centralia on Friday September 2nd to prevent growth o...
Sep 01, 2022
Walnut Hill home sustains heavy fire damage
A Walnut Hill home sustained heavy fire damage early Wednesday morning. Centralia Fire Protection District Chief Ross Boshera says the department was called to a home owned by Tom Atchison at 46 Main ...
Aug 31, 2022 The remains of a home that burned early this morning on Main Street in Walnut Hill. Photo by Tim Ferguson.
Marion County Sheriff's Deputy investigate residential burglary, recover stolen car
The Marion County Sheriff's Department is investigating a burglary to a home in the 1600 block of Community Beach Road in Odin. A jar full of quarters and other coins were reported stolen along with a...
Aug 31, 2022
Police Beat for Wednesday, August 31st, 2022
A 30-year-old Centralia woman has been arrested by Centralia Police for possession of a controlled substance and retail theft. Donna Crabtree of East 17th was taken to the Marion County Jail where she...
Aug 31, 2022
Salem Township Hospital moves forward on gutting A wing for medical offices
The Salem Township Hospital Board is moving forward on the renovation of the A-wing into new medical facilities. The wing has not been used for the past seven years since patient rooms were moved to a...
Aug 31, 2022 Salem Township Hospital President Alex Nazarian
2nd Tales from East Lawn Cemetery Tour is set with eight people to be portrayed
The Salem Historical Commission has finalized plans for their second annual Tales from East Lawn Cemetery. The Commission's Luke Purcell says eight former residents buried in the East Lawn Cemetery wi...
Aug 31, 2022
State: 1st Illinois resident dies of West Nile virus this year
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois health officials say a Cook County resident in their late 70s has died of West Nile virus in the first human case of the mosquito-borne disease reported in the state this year....
Aug 31, 2022 dr_relling / CC
