Author Archives: Mark Wells

The Johnsonville Community Ruritan Spring Scholarship Fund-Raising Soup Supper and Auction will be held Saturday, March 15th at the Johnsonville Ruritan Building. Besides soup, the menu will also incl...

Alice May (Meyer) Gunter, 89, of McLeansboro, IL passed away on Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at Hamilton Memorial Hospital in McLeansboro. Alice was born on February 23, 1936 in Parsippany, NJ to Henr...

37-year-old Aydreian Hooper of Fairfield along with Public Defender, Heidi Hoffee appeared in Wayne County Circuit Court Thursday morning for sentencing in the hot car death of her 17-month old son, A...

  Fairfield and Cisne High School FFA Chapters participated at the Section 23 Parliamentary Procedure Leadership Development Event held Thursday at Richland County High School in Olney. The Fairf...

BOYS HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL CLASS 2A AT FAIRFIELD TONIGHT Fairfield plays Teutopolis for the Regional Championship tonight at 7pm at The Mule Barn. Doors open at 6pm. $7 admission GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL BA...

Carolyn Isabelle Fry, 85, of Wayne City, Illinois, passed away at 1:44 pm February 26, 2025 at Oakview Nursing Home in Mount Carmel, Illinois. She was born May 6, 1939 in Texico, Illinois to the late ...

Kevin Dean Frankenbery, 66, of Albion, IL passed away at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO on Thursday, February 20, 2025. Kevin was born in Neodesha, KS on September 23, 1958. He spent the majo...

Wilma Kuhlig, age 95, of Newport, Tennessee, and formerly of Flora, Illinois, passed away Tuesday, February 25, 2025. Wilma enjoyed the yearly cookout for the Cocke County Sheriff's Department and lov...

William Michael "Mike" Smith, 77, of Norris City, passed away on Wednesday, February 26, 2025, at Nature Trail Health Care Center in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. He was born on July 6, 1947, in Eldorado, the...

The Southern Illinois University Baseball program mourns the loss of Richard C. "Itchy" Jones, who passed away Monday at 87. A native of Herrin, Jones was a Hall of Fame coach with a remarkable 39-yea...