Author Archives: Mark Wells

Join the Wayne County Farm Bureau as they take a chartered bus to see Mike Super: Magic & Illusion at the Effingham Performance Center on March 8th. As the winner of NBC's hit TV show 'Phenomenon'...

Fairfield Lady Mules Basketball Team will play in the West Frankfort Mid-Winter Classic that begins tonight (Monday). The Lady Mules will play West Frankfort tonight with tipoff set for 6:30pm The Var...

Larry Richard Simms, 81, of West Salem, Illinois, passed away on January 18, 2025, at StoneBridge Senior Living in Olney, Illinois. Larry was born in Olney, Illinois, August 26, 1943, to Albert and El...

Eunice Terry, age 95 passed away Friday, January 17, 2025 at Silver Foxes Nursing Home and Rehab, McLeansboro, IL. Eunice was born September 18, 1929, in Marissa, IL. the eldest daughter of Merlin L. ...

Brennan Marlow, age 21, of Marion, IL. passed away much too soon on January 15, 2025 due to a traffic accident while on his way to work Wednesday morning. Brennan was born on March 4, 2003 to the happ...

Timothy Deane Kiefer, 70, of Grayville, passed away on Thursday, January 16, 2025 at home. He was born on Tuesday, June 8, 1954 in Evansville, IN, the son of Earnie Deane and Mabel Elizabeth (Lindsay)...

Boys high school basketball Friday: Fairfield 62 Carmi 53 Other scores: Altamont 74, North Clay 62 A-J 49, West Frankfort 47 Althoff 59, Father McGivney 43 Alton-Marquette 66, Maryville 43 Arcola 52, ...

  The Center Street Grade School Board of Education is set to meet Tuesday night for their next meeting in the Center Street School Boardroom. Approval of regular and closed minutes from the Dece...

Jefferson County Coroner Roger Hayse has released the identity of two people killed in an accident Thursday on I-57near the Ina exit in Jefferson County Thursday morning involving two semis. The drive...

In state news, the former director of the Illinois Department of Public Health has been fined $150,000 for violating a state anti-corruption law. Dr. Ngozi Ezike, who led the state health policy durin...