Author Archives: Mark Wells

Pictured: Michaela Greathouse poses with Kenny Clodfelter, president of the Edwards County Farm Bureau between rounds of the American Farm Bureau Federation's National Discussion Meet.     M...

Superintendent, Britany Pope from New Hope Grade School announces the two winners from the school's spelling bee held Monday morning. Jude Webb, a 7th grader won 1st place with Kylie Greene, a 5th gra...

Fairfield Mules Scholastic Bowl Team finishes in 2nd place Monday in the Black Diamond Conference Tournament held at the First Christian Church in Fairfield. Answering tossups Monday for FCHS were All...

  A man from McLeansboro has been arrested and charged with two counts of theft connected to incidents at local businesses. Franklin County Sheriff Kyle Bacon reported that the Hamilton County Sh...

Fairfield Mules Boys Basketball tonight at the Mule Barn on Jed Foster Court as the Mules take on Cisne with the JV game starting at 6pm. *****UPDATE FOR THE MULES GAME TONIGHT***** Due to low numbers...

71 year old Fairfield resident, Larry Dean Lowery passed away at his residence on Sunday, January 26, 2025. Larry was born on July 27, 1953 to Clyde and Vada (Mayberry) Lowery near Wayne City, Illinoi...

Eva Lorene Dial age 95, a former resident of McLeansboro, IL., passed away Thursday, January 23, 2025 at Axiom Nursing Home, Mt. Vernon, IL. Lorene was born April 12, 1929 in Flannigan Township. She m...

Fairfield resident, 32-year-old Cole Tatum was arrested Friday by the Wayne County Sheriff's Department for a Violation of Pretrial Release warrant for Failure to Appear for No Valid Driver's License....

Two men from the Hamilton County were arrested late last week. A 52-year-old Rafael Torres III of McLeansboro is incarcerated at the White County Jail following his arrest Friday. McLeansboro Police h...

Illinois State Police and first responders handled two traffic accidents in the same general location Sunday afternoon on I-57 in Jefferson County. The first accident occurred at approximately 12:18pm...