Author Archives: Mark Wells

  The Edwards County Commissioners are scheduled to have a meeting this Monday morning beginning at 9 a.m. at the Edwards County Courthouse in Albion. Items appearing on the meeting agenda includ...

Area rivers are running higher as of this morning. The Little Wabash River east of Fairfield is a little above the 17-foot flood stage at 17.5 feet. At Clay City the stage is 14.21 feet. Flood stage i...

  The Richland County Sheriff's Office conducted a search Friday for a missing person in the Wynoose area. According to a post on their Facebook page, the sheriff's department said the missing pe...

Governor J.B. Pritzker announced Friday along with Illinois State Police Director Brendan F. Kelly and representatives from public Illinois universities, new partnerships that advance educational oppo...

A pretrial hearing in the first-degree murder case against Megan Valentine has been postponed. Judge William Thurston issued a docket entry on Wednesday, rescheduling the hearing from Thursday to Wedn...

Last week at Fairfield City Hall, Hearing Officer Mary Beth Welch-Collins presided over several court cases on the docket: Leonard Lamczyk was ticketed for a dog running at large. He paid his ticket p...

Ray Tate appeared via Zoom from the Menard Correctional Center in Chester on Wednesday morning as he sought to withdraw his guilty plea related to charges stemming from his capture in Clinton County. ...

The Wayne County Spelling Bee is set for Thursday night, February 6th at Fairfield City Hall. WFIW-FM 104.9 will broadcast and live video stream the spelling bee on our website, wfiwradio.com with the...

Frontier Community College Volleyball Coach Chet Snyder recently addressed the Fairfield Rotary Club during their noon luncheon, sharing his vision for the Bobcats Volleyball program. With an impressi...

The Eastern Illinois Foodbank will be in Clay County on Monday, February 10th, to distribute food to families facing food insecurity. Attendees are encouraged to bring boxes or bags for transporting t...